# Anti-Austerity Party Wins in Greece: Will Greece Leave the Euro?

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**Created:** [January 26, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-austerity-party-wins-in-greece-will-greece-leave-the-euro/710909 "2015-01-26T05:14:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-austerity-party-wins-in-greece-will-greece-leave-the-euro/710909/61 "2015-01-27T05:05:01Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> Then why are you trying to shout down their best chance for saving more lives?

I’m not; austerity saves no one and helps no one.

> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> Let’s say, for example, that you are dealing with a deadbeat dad. You can either argue that he should go to jail, or that he should stay free. If he goes to jail, the mom will have to work and the five children will be cramped into a single room, with poor light, insufficient nourishment, and they’ll grow up stunted, with poor health, and a shortened lifespan. If the dad stays with the family, he will spend all the money he can, gambling, getting drunk, etc. He won’t let the wife work, and when he catches her saving money so that she can keep the family alive, he beats her. He molests his own children, and will probably end up killing at least one (if not more) of them. The children who survive will grow up stunted, with poor health, a shortened lifespan, unable to do much physical labor due to poorly healed bone fractures, and suffering PTSD.
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> Now you could make the argument that dad is a larger earner than mom, so he’s doing a better job of growing the economy. But since the size and growth of the economy isn’t relevant to the situation, making that argument is just being obtuse and making a bad situation worse.

That scenario has nothing at all to do with austerity. It’s a way of demonizing the Greeks so you can justify your stated desire for them to starve.

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