Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos says: “The basic choice we have to face is if we will stay in the eurozone at great cost, sacrifice and a deep recession. The real cost of an exit from the euro would be the dissolution of the social fabric.”
Thanks Evangelos. Let’s see if I have grasped this:
A) We stay in at great cost, sacrifice and a deep recession. OR
B) We get out at the cost of a “dissolution of the social fabric.”
My problem is with the second bit, the first being concrete enough, even for the moronic layman. The second bit implies that the social fabric is neither dissoluted NOW (have you somehow missed the riots and strikes outside your front door?) and NOR will become so if we do stay in and suffer this sacrifice and depression (incidentally, I wouldn’t worry about that too much – we’ve just had it for 13 years in the UK and we have somehow survived – the GBP is even going UP. Depression is part of life; after all, you’re bound to get a “socialist” government occasionally, so you should learn to live with it) In addition, the very phrase “dissolution of the social fabric” is a phrase of unmitigated and meaningless drivel.
The latter we are used to, but do pls try to be clearer. Keep by all means the drivelous content but dress it up at least in words that actually mean something in linguistic terms.
Have a good day, or if that is not possible, Survive the Day. (Sorry – would be better in latin …..)
