Magnificient Greeks following in steps of Leonidas.

As part of the battle of Thermopylae,fought in 480 b.c. 300 Spartans defied the vastly superior (somewhere between 150,000and 1,000,000 soldiers ) army of the Asian King Xerxes ,who uncannily wanted the "earth and water "of Sparta,Thrace and other Greek confederates as a sign of their submission to him.
Xerxes considered himself a God incarnate.
For 3 days 300 Spartans and a number of Thespians held this massive horde at bay before they were over run and in so doing gave several thousand of their compatriots the chance to fight another day.
Now the similarities between that scenario and the present hammering of the Greeks and the absolute bullying of the population by the combined hordes of the other member States of the EU and the IMF is uncanny and eerie if you substitute economics deprivation and austerity for colonial ambition and naked greed.
In Ireland eviction has become commonplace ,NAMA and various hues of insolvency practitioner and banks  are selling off the houses.lands and  estates of this country to foreigners ,including vulture capitalists (think earth) and the State has taken it on itself to appropriate the water of the Country unto itself at the behest of the EU  (think water).
The fact that the approximate population of Dublin City (400.000 ) are waiting for outpatient appointments ,many for over a year, to get attention in our hospitals must rank for the world record for a developed country as a percentage of our total population.
Not to mention the scandal of the placing of very sick patients on trolleys endangering their frail health and shortening their lives as we spend countless millions educating the youth of the overwhelmingly privileged in our medical schools for export to greener pastures abroad .
Rather than standing up for its citizens ,,this Government and the previous one has acted like the traitor who betrayed Leonidas and his Spartans by showing the secret paths around the back of the Spartans to Xerxes and his hordes ,in order to outflank the Greeks.
And remember this,the State pays absolutely nothing to anybody,it is you and I and everybody who lives here ,consumes here and pays the myriad taxes here who pay all these things.The State is like the Sheriff of Nottingham in the Robin Hood sagas,it merely collects everything it generates from its subjects and redistributes it ,not forgetting to ;look after itself and its enforcers along the way ,of  course.
Now the Geeks are like us only in Spades..They have been screwed beyond endurance by a horde of bullies ,including our fellas  and gals,who are glorying in how they have sold the Big Lie to us and now want the Greek Government to break their word as our guys and gals did and betray their electorate.
I hope that their Government does keep its word and takes courage from their ancestors the Spartans.And I hope that our electorate sees through the Big Lie being promulgated by there esta blisherd parties and puts them to the political sword.