Posted on 07/03/2015 8:10:40 PM PDT by Rockitz
Greece in teetering on the brink of ruin - and it is hard not to feel sympathy for the pensioners crying in the street and the mothers facing empty supermarket shelves.
Yet those reading a new book may find themselves feeling a little less compassionate towards the Greeks. It reveals an eye-popping catalogue of benefits scams and tax avoidance schemes that have robbed the public purse.
James Angelos' The Full Catastrophe: Travels among the New Greek Ruins lays bare the corruption which filtered through all levels of society - from the islanders who pretended to be blind, to the families who forgot to register their parents' death and the doctors who 'earn' just 12,000 a year - yet live in Athens' most exclusive neighbourhood.
It was the rumours of an 'island of the blind' which first bought Angelos, a journalist, to Greece in 2011.
He had heard that on Zakynthos, something like two per cent of the population were registered blind.
All was not quite how it seemed, however, and it transpired that 61 of the 680 'blind' residents were quite happily driving around the island.
In fact, an astonishing 498 of those 680 were not blind at all - or even partially sighted.
But being 'blind' had its advantages - in particular, the 724 paid in benefits once every two months, and a reduction in utility bills.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
you’re now just babbling.....incoherently.....trying to appear smarter than you are.
All hat, no cattle.....bye odd little lib.
>>now youre babbling...
Was Alan Greenspan babbling when he asserted to Brooksley Borne that the market would take care of FRAUD and so there didn’t need to be any rules against it?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Fraud+Greenspan+Borne&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Oops!
>>trying to appear smarter than you are.
Says phoney talking head wearing the squirrel.
>>bye odd little lib.
Poor little RINO squirrel.
Doesn’t do very well when it gets pushed off its running wheel/taking points.
LOL.
maybe you should read my Amazon best selling book about the GOP -e.....at a minimum, you just made a fool of yourself calling me a RINO.
You are really strange....thinking self responsibility is a RINO concept, and that blaming biz more than government is conservative. You are bass ackwards, and again, showed yourself a fool with your RINO comment. Really a fool.
that proves my point you dumb bass......
Maybe you’re too new around here to know this is a free market website. We’re not statists, like you must be.
A Republic is a system of governance characterized by the rule of law.
How’s that workin’ for ya, RINO?
>>All hat, no cattle....
Yeah I got your Cow right here little man:
Ex 32:7-8 .
NIV
Is the “Market” a Created Thing - and how does that work out in the context of Romans 1:25+?
More self-worshiping evasion from the Grinning chimp who wears a Squirrel on its talking head.
You’re as ignorant of your Bible as you are economics.
Romans 1:25 doesn’t have a thing to do with who is at fault in Greece, or in the economic meltdown here. Zip zero nada. You are clearly grasping at straws, drowning, and changing subjects every second.
I see in your posting history you use the same Bible quote and the same Founder’s quote for all topics. Again dude, read more, get out more......taking one single verse and mis applying it is just another of your RINO leftist tactics.
oh now you’re also jealous of my hair I see...
Is the Market/Economy a Created Thing - Yes or No?
They don't foolishly lend, this is a formula. They do it over and over again. They influence elections to ensure it continues. They help ensure the fixes are more taxes and regulations to ensure it only gets worse.
And the rubes? Fall for it everywhere it's tried. We are only slightly better than the Greeks because we don't ALL work for the government. Yet.
When the government bails them out with taxpayer money.
>>They do it over and over again.
Yep. It’s a cycle derived from human nature that’s been getting gamed/exploited through out history.
By Created, do you mean by man or by God?
It’s created in the sense that everything that exists can be said to be a creation. To say God created the market specifically is plausible, but more a by product of human nature, which He did create. This is semantic foolishness and games.
But you asked, so what do you say?
And what does it have to do with this topic, besides nothing?
>>oh now youre also jealous of my hair I see...
Nope. I just think it probably looked more natural when the squirrel was still wearing it.
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