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 ...
>> Yah, developments in Yellowstone and Yosemite anyone?
Ha! I guess I was out in front of this issue days ago when I proposed that Kalifornia mortgage their public lands to pay their outsize debts...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2538904/posts?page=15#15
Hey, we’ve got all that Federal land with the coal and oil deposits plus the offshore oil we can sell. Shoot, Greece hasn’t got a thing on us. We can pay our debt to China by selling the country to them. Kinda like that deal Britain had for Hong Kong.
And what is the US debt? Federal land owned?
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Yup. All these left wingers say don’t drill in Anwar but at the rate they are going with spending the USA will end up forced into giving permanent leases to the Chinese to do the drilling just to pay the interest on our debt.
I want to buy Chateau D’If. (I know, it’s not Greek, but French... but I love the movie :>)
You’re right BUT I haven’t supported this crap & am not the one walking fown the same path. Instead, I believe the masses of idiot uninformed voters have thrown us all under the bus.
Believe me, I’m just a nurse. Not an economic guru or brilliant business mind. But if I can figure this stuff out, then it’s not rocket science. It’s pretty obviously logical, common sense. I just wish more people would shut off MTV & the like and pay attention!!!
One would have to be a certifiable fool to buy one of these...it would be like purchasing the Brooklyn Bridge. What’s keeping Greece from simply nationalizing the islands after they collect the loot?
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/
Me, if I can't swing it... I'm going to retire onto a sailboat. Then anchor next to an uninhabited island in the Caribbean and claim it via squatters rights.
Obama and his ilk will give it to the UN for free.
I propose we offer to sell Detroit...
Unlike others, at least the Grecian government realizes they have a problem with their finances.
“It’s a call from the Turkish Embassy, something about Cyprus ...”
can we sell California?
The Greeks might get even more money if buyers were able to claim independent sovereignty and set up a tax haven. Perhaps this could be a model for other highly indebted nations.
Didn’t the Greeks always have a rep for being “cheap”?? How did they get into this position? Sheesh..
Not so funny now, is it.
You buy the island, develop and Greek communists will seize it to “throw out the ‘neo-colonialists.”
Not to mention that Greece doesn’t have enough people to work on those islands. Immigrants are heading OUT of Greece and Greece is desperately trying to keep them (offered citizenship too to many)
Bartering/selling soverign territory to settle debts....
coming soon to a USA region near you.
And the Zero administration is already practicing this strategy by ceding a US State Park to Mexico.
It's not worth anything anymore.
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.What if I were just rich? Would I *also have* to be famous? Or could I just write the check and get it over with? And what about my income tax liability? Sounds like the gubmint plans to do some double-dipping (triple-dipping, with the additional tourism dollars elsewhere in Greece).
That is very sad.
Now the beautiful Greek Islands will become the Chinese Islands? or how about the Russian Islands?
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