Immediately after learning that the EU will not give Greece any bailout money unless it accepts a harsh austerity program, the Greek prime minister told EU leaders to “forget it, we’ll solve this on our own by switching to a new currency.”
The new currency, affectionately called the Zeuro (coin pictured below), will be used by the Greek government to pay its state workers and pensions next month.
George Papandreou, Greece’s prime minister, expressed his confidence in the power of this currency switch by promising to give every single Greek a one-time payment of 40.000 Zeuros, as an apology for the government’s recent screw-ups. “I believe this will have a positive outcome. Our Zeuro funds are virtually unlimited so this is a solid plan that will undoubtedly get us out of this crisis situation.”
via telegraph
