Madam Secretary (TV Series) Spartan Figures (2015) User Reviews

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[Lian · 1/10 · 24 January 2016]

After a really absorbing run, the first really awful episode of the show.

The main plot was laughable in it's depictions of the financial situation in Europe (and European leaders) and utterly incomprehensible in terms of just what the U.S. was bringing to the E.U.'s negotiation tables.

God forbid POTUS be sidelined in something crucial in terms of the world, and other countries prove capable of handling their own business. And don't get me started on the U.S. Security Detail guy bossing around of the (smaller) European one. Quite apart from it being ridiculous, as there were about another 10 E.U. guys just standing around to stop them, did no one at all among the makers see the 'U.S. bullying' visual it gave off? Big hulking American intimidates smaller guy on own territory. Horrendous.

And then we wonder why even among European allied countries, America isn't as popular as it might be.

Empty chest thumping rubbish of the highest order.

An entirely misleading view on the subject matter ..

[josef-kraitz · 4/10 · 6 April 2015]

.. of the Greek debt crisis.

a) Greece has defaulted over the last 200 years 5 times already (1826, 1843, 1860, 1894 and 1932), and has thus spent a sum of 90 years in default over this period - there was no global financial crisis a result of these defaults.

b) Much bigger economies than Greece's have defaulted, or undergone massive devaluations, and neither of them has brought the world into an economic crisis.

c) The creditors of Greece's debt are the same way responsible for the Greek crisis, and more so, for the potential impact on other countries/businesses, as it was the creditors, who were so happy to lend their money to Greece, hoping for massive percentage gains, which would have been impossible in a stable, fully evolved economy. And of course the same creditors understood very well, that there is a real possibility, that they will not get their money back. - There is no gain without a risk, and typically, with a higher risk, comes a higher potential gain (as well as a higher potential loss).

Thus the creditors were gambling. They knew upfront, what they were doing, and in this case, looking back, they probably should not have done that in such an excessive manner. Those responsible for those gambles, of the Greek creditors, should now be held responsible, for any impact of Greek financial issues, outside of Greece.

d) The US of A themselves, have a long history of high external debt, thus considering the US of A having on oversight over any financial matter of any other subject, as "world economy being scrutinized at the highest levels" is just warping the reality into unrecognizability.

Others have tried to rewrite history, hoping, they could make future generations believe, that something other happened, than what actually happened - it's not really original at this point anymore.