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Greece puts its islands up for sale to save economy
The Guardian ^ | 6/24/10 | Elena Moya

Posted on 06/24/2010 4:35:37 PM PDT by Mere Survival

There's little that shouts "seriously rich" as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir Richard Branson it is Neckar in the Caribbean, the billionaire Barclay brothers prefer Brecqhou in the Channel Islands, while Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his Greek hideway.

Now Greece is making it easier for the rich and famous to fulfill their dreams by preparing to sell, or offering long-term leases on, some of its 6,000 sun-kissed islands in a desperate attempt to repay its mountainous debts.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchy; comingtoyourtown; endofcapitalism; eu; fail; governmentspending; greece; greektragedy; liberalnutjobs; liberalsgonewild; opecbillionaires; roadtocommunism; saudioilmoney; socialism; stupidity; waterfrontmosques
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Why don't the creditor's care about bankrupting their debtor countries? Maybe because they end up with all the real assets in the world.
1 posted on 06/24/2010 4:35:39 PM PDT by Mere Survival
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To: Mere Survival

I punched in my maximum bid of $10.00. I figure I can resell it and double my money!


2 posted on 06/24/2010 4:36:50 PM PDT by mark3681
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To: Mere Survival
Obama prepares the same for us.
3 posted on 06/24/2010 4:36:59 PM PDT by alecqss
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I think Germany’s Merkel suggested this weeks ago and the Greeks had a outrage over those comments!


4 posted on 06/24/2010 4:38:03 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Mere Survival

This should help with the Chinese colonization of the Mediterranean. All those billionaires buying up those islands.


5 posted on 06/24/2010 4:39:11 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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Yah, developments in Yellowstone and Yosemite anyone? Some nice pagoda style condos overlooking the Grand Canyon for our creditors/owners . . .


6 posted on 06/24/2010 4:39:55 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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Hey, maybe Jack Squat Barry can hold a fundraiser for them............=.=


7 posted on 06/24/2010 4:41:00 PM PDT by cranked
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Pay off their mountainous debt? Here’s a novel idea: kick all the freeloaders off the gov dole, cut the coporate & individual tax rate, then watch the free market grow/create jobs. You’ll have a GDP in no time. Dumbasses.


8 posted on 06/24/2010 4:41:25 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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We will pay for Obama’s lavish lifestyle, for illegals’ benefits, for the unions, Soros, Gore and their ilk raking billions, etc. In exchange - we get our property owned by the Chinese. Good deal.


9 posted on 06/24/2010 4:42:12 PM PDT by alecqss
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When Greece went to the EU for a bailout Germans said 'We give you cash, you give us Corfu!'

It's a bit unsettling when you realize that Kaiser Wilhelm used to holiday on Corfu.

10 posted on 06/24/2010 4:43:36 PM PDT by x
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Hard to call them dumbasses when we are walking down the same path. I hope Obama is teaching enough of the country such a lesson in the value of the American way, by showing us the alternative, that we turn back to it . . . but the Reagan reaction to Carter and the Watergate freshman class just led to Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, and McCain as our “conservative” candidates for President, and the Gingrich congress morphed into the free spending jackasses of the Bush years.


11 posted on 06/24/2010 4:46:43 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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Rosie O’Donnell has dibs on Lesvos Island.


12 posted on 06/24/2010 4:50:13 PM PDT by NorthStarStateConservative (I'm just another disabled naturalized minority vegan pro life conservative.)
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When Greece went to the EU for a bailout Germans said ‘We give you cash, you give us Corfu!’
It’s a bit unsettling when you realize that Kaiser Wilhelm used to holiday on Corfu.
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Quite a few historians have commented that the growth in the German economy and technology before WWI was so great compared to the rest of the continent that all Germany had to do to be dominant was nothing but continue in peace.

And . . . the Bible says that debt is slavery.

When the Pharoah took the lands of Egypt as payment for food in the lean years and let the farmer’s continue to work it for payment of 10% of the crops to him it was called slavery.


13 posted on 06/24/2010 4:52:12 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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ATTENTION!!!!!

Despots, mad scientists, drug lords, Cobra Commander wannabes, Decepticons, James Bond villians, desperados, and other evil ilk.

Now is the time to complete your destiny and buy your very own island fortress!!!! Hurry now while supplies last.


14 posted on 06/24/2010 4:53:41 PM PDT by ak267
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Rosie O’Donnell has dibs on Lesvos Island.
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Don’t give her any ideas.


15 posted on 06/24/2010 4:53:52 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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Maybe they can get some accounting help from the Minoans.
Where’d that Linear A policy manual go anyway?


16 posted on 06/24/2010 4:54:04 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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Pay off their mountainous debt? Here’s a novel idea: kick all the freeloaders off the gov dole, cut the corporate & individual tax rate, then watch the free market grow/create jobs. You’ll have a GDP in no time.

I've never agreed with anything more.

17 posted on 06/24/2010 4:54:37 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

I can read Linear A. I just choose not to.


18 posted on 06/24/2010 4:55:45 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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And what is the US debt? Federal land owned?


19 posted on 06/24/2010 4:56:55 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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And if the USA doesn’t get its financial house in order within a very few years, all sorts of territory and mineral rights, etc., of the USA might well be put up for sale.


20 posted on 06/24/2010 4:58:05 PM PDT by Will88
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