Originally Posted by FetishBar

Article below is from Global Research CA by Paul Craig Roberts( former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, has held numerous university appointments. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research):

According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington?s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine?s poor. It is Greece all over again.

Before anything approaching stability and legitimacy has been obtained for the puppet government put in power by the Washington orchestrated coup against the legitimate, elected Ukraine government, the Western looters are already at work. Naive protesters who believed the propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of their pension by April. But this is only the beginning.

The corrupt Western media describes loans as ?aid.? However, the 11 billion euros that

the EU is offering Kiev is not aid. It is a loan. Moreover, it comes with many strings, including Kiev?s acceptance of an IMF austerity plan...