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"193 years ago, the Greek people started fighting against the Ottoman Empire and won... Today Greece is struggling to break the shackles of lenders" as stated by Greece’s President Karolos Papoulias on occasion of the National Day of Greece 25 March.

It is sad that only a few spectators, even with invitations, are allowed to watch the national military and school parades. It is a sad fact that the country has reached the point at which its politicians prohibit the free access to parades, fearing the wrath of citizens, but also the vandals whom they cannot control.

The saddest thing of all, however, is the statement of the President of Greece, which shows that, four years after the collapse of the country, he is not at all aware of the root causes that have led to it, once again misleading the Greek people.

He still believes that the problem is "the shackles of lenders", although currently Greece does not pay the taxpayers of the other 18 euro area member states lending to it until Greece is back on its feet any interest on the 160 billion euro from the second memorandum to 2023.
 
Karolos Papoulias, a representative of the old bankrupt party and clientelist state is trying to shift the blame for Greece’s bankruptcy onto someone else. He is not yet aware of the fact that the problem is he himself and his "company" in green and blue (these are the colours of the two main parties in Greece, PASOK and New Democracy).

While Greece went bankrupt in May 2010 and the Greek citizens were urged to make bloody sacrifices by inhuman cuts and unbearable taxes amidst unprecedented recession and unemployment, the President requested the reduction of his salary, which was almost equal to the salary of the U.S. President Barack Obama, only in September 2012.

The President is a sad figure, not only because he forgets his own feeble and belated reaction to the collapse of the country, but also because he forgets his own past. He forgets that he himself was "shackles" once, since he had granted a loan to his partner Andreas, the most immoral head of Greece after Alcibiades and, as is clear, the charismatic borrower punished him as a lender through the debt haircut and the PSI...

Mr. President, this is to inform you that, if you have not yet realized it. or if you do not want to, the real shackles that we should break are not those of the foreigners but mostly of the undeserving, greedy and lazy politicians and trade unionists who, for three decades, had squandered the scarce wealth of the country, presenting to the Greek citizens a supposedly social policy that did not come from the production of new wealth but from debts and dependencies, burdening the future generations, as well as from plundering the labour and savings of households in the country and abroad.

The logic "let us eat now and we'll see for the future" was, and is still, the chains that were about to choke us, Mr. President.

Wake up! Repent before you totally disgrace yourself... And we are not interested in you as a citizen. But as President, we beg you not to humiliate our unhappy country and us any longer...

The article is reprinted from http://marketnews.gr, author Christos Katiforis.