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“The mood in Greece is tense. Under the proposals, wages will be reduced, taxes will be raised and gasoline prices will go up — measures that are guaranteed to drive the unions into the streets to protest against the recently elected Socialist government.”
But I thought Socialism was the answer Europe! I keep seeing “What’s wrong with Socialism?” crap everywhere. Apparently people don’t like it, however another article explained why Germany won’t bail Greece out.
It seems that in Greece, you can retire at 58 and receive a pension for the rest of your life. And for some odd reason, they get paid for 14 months a year. So Germany, who has a retirement age of 67 and only gets paid for the actual number of days in the year (snort!), will be paying for Greeks to sit around 11 years more than they do.
Greece has got to change things and they have spoiled their citizens with unreasonable expectations. Protests are going to have to be expected, but also not do anything to appease them. Appeasing them is what got them in the situation to begin with.
Maybe they’ll send them a case of strudel.
Seems like just yesterday (1943) and the Germans owned the whole darned place!
Now they are suggesting that Greece sell their islands for cash......Can you imagine. Next, we will be told to sell Federal Land for cash.