elites

But you are talking about powerful elites who work in mysterious ways to control all Greek people votes.

And they also probably think that they, the elites, could use something better than what everyone else uses, too.

Which brings us back to powerful elites, which you think don't exist for some reason.

And Matt Taibbi is here to save you from those pointy headed elites.

Now the European project finds itself in need of a magnanimous Germany, something that cannot be delivered by neither its elites nor their electorate.

What group of powerful elites will relinquish total control willingly?

So I would suggest you redirect your complaints towards the real responsible parties: European bankers and the elites who keep enabling them.

And chances are with our corruption most of those money if they were to paid they’d end up in the pockets of the elites and the politicians.

I live in ex-socialist country and there is always trash talk about elites, aristocrats and capitalism on our long coffee breaks but guess what?

I did not claim that capitalism was 'fair', nor that the rich elites did not have a political leverage to further their personal well being.

Remember elites who don't like a bill can effectively drive its chances of passing down to zero, and this would be a piece of legislation that affects all lobbyists.

Very few elites start with total control.

While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” Economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

I really liked the interfluidity summary [0], but I would like someone to break down this exchange a bit more for me: OP: > With respect to Greece, the precise thing that European elites did to set the current chain of events in motion was to replace private debt with public during the 2010 first “bailout of Greece”.

Elites exist, it is not a mystery cloaked in enigma.