Minutes after her appointment, Lagarde pressed Greece to move quickly to push through unpopular austerity measures that the IMF and EU say are a prerequisite for further aid.
No sooner had the scepter nestled into her hand than did the new Plutocrat-in-Chief issue her first decree. It was entirely unnecessary, nobody opposing austerity would be placed in her position, she was just flexing her chrematist muscles. She doesn't care about the people of Greece, about the infirm who cannot afford the life-sustaining medical treatment which will no longer be provided by state health services, for whom these latest austerity measures are a death sentence. If they die at her feet she will just step over them no worse for the wear.
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