“When it becomes serious, you have to lie.”How can such people have any moral authority to tell a sovereign nation what is “wrong” with their national government?
— Jean-Claude Juncker, who is now president of the European Commission
When a sovereign nation cannot balance a bank book, draw the line on excessive expenditures, continuously borrows money to operate, cannot fire a single government employee, and builds a two-star military on a four-star budget....they are no longer a sovereign country.
Ask the Greeks about the ‘leaning’ submarine that they bought and never needed. Ask the Greeks about the two budget officers of one town who shot and killed the mayor and still got paid as employees. Ask the Greeks about the law that was on the books for almost a decade that required each Greek federal employee to get six extra days of leave a year if they operated a computer at work. Ask the Greeks what happened when they did try to fire and terminate the national federally-run TV channel, and four months later....that gov’t fell, and the new gov’t hired back the whole state-run network apparatus.
Over and over, they’ve proven themselves to be incompetent. Go to Greece, and the people out in the country will laugh and tell you dozens of such stories. They are not proud of their govenrnment, and every so-many months....they fire that gov’t to bring in a fresh government to fix things. Then six to twelve months later....they realize that vote was a failure. They will admit to your face....they are screwed and have been for decades. By coming to the EU....I think it’s time for a spanking occasion and some tough changes. If you didn’t want to face such issues....you should have fixed the issues decades ago.