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Posted on 10/19/2011 12:34:34 AM PDT by Watchdog85
Truth is stranger than fiction. Ancient Greeks rarely had more than two children and large families were frowned upon.
It’s also notable that Mongols and other nomadic peoples had no fertility goddesses/cults since having lots of kids was not very practicable in the food-grudging steppes.
The project was in the fifties (and is not yet complete), to build a road from one metropolitan are to another. Anyone could show up any time they chose, no heavy machinery was used, the government would supply picks, shovels and wheelbarrows. The supervisors could not "tell" anyone what to do, as long as the "laborers" looked busy they got a check.
And here we are, an incomplete road and a population that expects something for nothing.
The businesses should go on strike and lock their doors for a month.
Workers of the world..go hungry in the dark.
Agreed.
And when your biggest industry is tourism, rioting in the streets isn’t going to be one anyone’s sightseeing list.
You’d think Greece would be an excellent farming area..
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It is ,, riding a tour bus from port to inland ruins locations recently, there was all kinds of tilled land visible and such and quite a few different crops are grown there.
Most of it is consumed locally and in Europe.. except for olive oil. :-)
Was interesting seeing this on CNBC this morning.
The strikers throw Molotov cocktails and the police shoot tear gas shells which are pretty ineffective since the strikers all have gas masks.
I would think throwing a Molotov cocktail would bring a violent response in the USA, but who knows. The police are all unionized both places I think.
As if they actually work in the first place.
It sounds to me like Greece has a long history of not repaying debts coupled with citizens who avoid paying taxes and thinking nothing of it. Best of luck to Germany who is really on the hook.
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