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.
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I punched in my maximum bid of $10.00. I figure I can resell it and double my money!
I think Germany’s Merkel suggested this weeks ago and the Greeks had a outrage over those comments!
This should help with the Chinese colonization of the Mediterranean. All those billionaires buying up those islands.
Yah, developments in Yellowstone and Yosemite anyone? Some nice pagoda style condos overlooking the Grand Canyon for our creditors/owners . . .
Hey, maybe Jack Squat Barry can hold a fundraiser for them............=.=
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.
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.
It's a bit unsettling when you realize that Kaiser Wilhelm used to holiday on Corfu.
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.
Rosie O’Donnell has dibs on Lesvos Island.
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.
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.
Rosie ODonnell has dibs on Lesvos Island.
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Don’t give her any ideas.
Maybe they can get some accounting help from the Minoans.
Where’d that Linear A policy manual go anyway?
I've never agreed with anything more.
I can read Linear A. I just choose not to.
And what is the US debt? Federal land owned?
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.
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