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meneliel · 10-11-2008, 12:56 AM

Hello friends,
I´m not an Icelander but consider myself as one: I live in Iceland, married with an Icelander and with an Icelandic daughter.
My home country is Venezuela, so being from there I can say I have experienced bad economic and political situations, so in a sense I could say I was used to very high inflation, unstable political situation etc etc.
Iceland was the absolute opposite of Venezuela. Just as an example, last year Iceland was ranked as one of the best countries in the world to live in...
Today there is a different story... and very different! I would have never expected to see the same problems I saw in my country (and even worse...)
It is very sad what is happening here. It is very unfair that a whole nation has to pay the mistakes (or the greediness) of few bankers and politicians. It is even more unfair that the people from England and other countries that were saving their money in Icelandic banks are being told that they won't get their money back... (an it is loooot of money).
The nation is in shock! And we are still realizing all the challenges we have to face... But on the positive side, Icelanders are amazing people and I'm sure they will find a way out of this mess...

I would like to end my post by pasting an anonymous comment from http://anapologyfromicelanders.blogspot.com/

"I'm an Icelander and I also humbly apologuise for the trouble icelandic banks have caused you all, and I truly feel sorry for all those people who are at risk of loosing their savings.

But I would also like to ask of you, to please help us find, convict and punish the people responsible and not blame the people who share your suffering. Because we had no idea that we as a nation where liable for those (excuse my language) greedy, no good, son of a bitch, asswipe, ****faced, dirty ******* wankers depts. They have robbed us of everything, our money, our jobs, our dignity, our sleep and our economy, and now they live a nice carefree life anywhere else but here in Iceland.

Icelanders have the longest working week in Europe, men about 48 hour work week and the women a little less. There are ruggid and hard working people who inhabit this island. And it has taken the better part of the last century to slowly and painfully build up our economy. All this and more was made from blood, sweat and tears of normal working people, mostly our farmers and fishermen, not rich people who have no sense for an honest days work and have no respect for it. You know, those people who don't realise that it's all thanks to the worker, the one that turns the resources into something useful. Not a banker who thinks that money grows on wall street, stock brokers don't realise that they are bying and selling someones blood, someones sweat and someones tears, peoples lives are being traded with like any other commodity. And greedy people are making money of this, not the workers them selfs but greedy people who do not contribute anything to society, but feed of it. And under the caring arm of gutless and corrupt politicians everywhere, they are allowed to **** us over and over, again and again.

And what it says in the apology is true and not joke. These super rich moraly bankrupt people left Iceland long ago in their private jets and took their money, that is our and your money with them.

Multi million dollar jets, helicopters and luxury cars, one owns a 23 million dollar penthouse apartment in Manhattan, and many of them live in prime locations in and around London. All in all there are around 30 people responsible for our shared dilemma, not counting our sad exuces for politicians (of all parties).

We are sorry, we are bleeding, please help us!

Our kindest regards to you all
Normal Icelanders"

10-11-2008, 12:56 AM	#15
meneliel Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Reykjavik, Iceland Posts: 11	Re: An apology from Icelanders Hello friends, I´m not an Icelander but consider myself as one: I live in Iceland, married with an Icelander and with an Icelandic daughter. My home country is Venezuela, so being from there I can say I have experienced bad economic and political situations, so in a sense I could say I was used to very high inflation, unstable political situation etc etc. Iceland was the absolute opposite of Venezuela. Just as an example, last year Iceland was ranked as one of the best countries in the world to live in... Today there is a different story... and very different! I would have never expected to see the same problems I saw in my country (and even worse...) It is very sad what is happening here. It is very unfair that a whole nation has to pay the mistakes (or the greediness) of few bankers and politicians. It is even more unfair that the people from England and other countries that were saving their money in Icelandic banks are being told that they won't get their money back... (an it is loooot of money). The nation is in shock! And we are still realizing all the challenges we have to face... But on the positive side, Icelanders are amazing people and I'm sure they will find a way out of this mess... I would like to end my post by pasting an anonymous comment from http://anapologyfromicelanders.blogspot.com/ "I'm an Icelander and I also humbly apologuise for the trouble icelandic banks have caused you all, and I truly feel sorry for all those people who are at risk of loosing their savings. But I would also like to ask of you, to please help us find, convict and punish the people responsible and not blame the people who share your suffering. Because we had no idea that we as a nation where liable for those (excuse my language) greedy, no good, son of a bitch, asswipe, **faced, dirty *** wankers depts. They have robbed us of everything, our money, our jobs, our dignity, our sleep and our economy, and now they live a nice carefree life anywhere else but here in Iceland. Icelanders have the longest working week in Europe, men about 48 hour work week and the women a little less. There are ruggid and hard working people who inhabit this island. And it has taken the better part of the last century to slowly and painfully build up our economy. All this and more was made from blood, sweat and tears of normal working people, mostly our farmers and fishermen, not rich people who have no sense for an honest days work and have no respect for it. You know, those people who don't realise that it's all thanks to the worker, the one that turns the resources into something useful. Not a banker who thinks that money grows on wall street, stock brokers don't realise that they are bying and selling someones blood, someones sweat and someones tears, peoples lives are being traded with like any other commodity. And greedy people are making money of this, not the workers them selfs but greedy people who do not contribute anything to society, but feed of it. And under the caring arm of gutless and corrupt politicians everywhere, they are allowed to ** us over and over, again and again. And what it says in the apology is true and not joke. These super rich moraly bankrupt people left Iceland long ago in their private jets and took their money, that is our and your money with them. Multi million dollar jets, helicopters and luxury cars, one owns a 23 million dollar penthouse apartment in Manhattan, and many of them live in prime locations in and around London. All in all there are around 30 people responsible for our shared dilemma, not counting our sad exuces for politicians (of all parties). We are sorry, we are bleeding, please help us! Our kindest regards to you all Normal Icelanders"