We should just install directly, JP Morgan as our government. Then we could end the theater that is voting and we get to keep our $66 for another year :~)

Cutting out the middle man has always made good sense!

Pericles yes my thoughts too.
In fact I have not yet seen, here in print, an understanding of what was proposed and by who.
It in fact was the government of Cyprus that voted it down.
And EC that asked for the theft, not hasbeen,s leftist criminals.
IT being a bail out load of 14 Billion dollars, who knows what dollar, ours Americas or some other.
It if allowed to progress would have then threatened the banking system world wide, not however now.
Some one showed under standing an insight in nameing Russia as stopping it.
Cyprus has much hidden cash, from that country and others, in its banks, so yes in a way they stopped or helped stop, an act of insanity.

wasn't it the Europeans who voted Swan the world's best socialist sorry Treasurer?

Yes Belly, the Cypriot parliament along with Russia did their best to stop an act of insanity.

They managed to avert the immediate confiscation, but did they actually succeed in stopping this insanity? only time will tell.
I'm afraid that as after 9/11, the world will never be the same again.

Belly, mate, we are talking about EU bureaucrats. Of course we're talking about lefty criminals, it's a prerequisite.

Fox never smells his own scent, Hasbeen :~)