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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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To: surroundedbyblue
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.

I dunno. Sounds like a "risky scheme" to me.

61 posted on 06/24/2010 6:22:26 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
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To: Mere Survival

You are correct. It is from a blog and there is no corroborating evidence. But the fact that you can’t just discount it out of hand is scary enough.


62 posted on 06/24/2010 6:26:29 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Mere Survival
You and your voodoo economics. What we need is a lockbox. And more stimulus.
63 posted on 06/24/2010 6:28:50 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Mere Survival
They could just default if they wanted to go down that road though.

You're a prophet. But then, one doesn't need an abacus to see that one coming....

64 posted on 06/24/2010 6:37:38 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Mere Survival

Let’s get together and buy a ‘Freeper’ island.


65 posted on 06/24/2010 6:38:20 PM PDT by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: Pan_Yan

What we need is a lockbox. And more stimulus.
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Hey, now don’t make fun of Gore and his masseuse. It’s off topic.


66 posted on 06/24/2010 6:44:41 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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To: devere

I’m OK with leasing Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon to the Disney company, as long as we get adequate royalties.
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Ack! Not Disney. They’ll put Ellen Degeneres in charge and have gay months at the national parks. Please, let’s choose to give the lease to the Chinese instead.


67 posted on 06/24/2010 6:52:41 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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To: Mere Survival

This is the formula. It has been used in countless countries and coming here soon. Once the banksters own you, they take everything. Taxes (for those lucky enough to still have jobs) keep increasing, services get cut, law enforcement serves only as revenue collectors for the state and everything goes to service the debt to the globalists.


68 posted on 06/24/2010 6:58:27 PM PDT by riri
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To: riri

“...and everything goes to service the debt to the globalists.”

You call them globalists...funny how they were fine when they loaned the money. Now that time has come to pay it back.
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69 posted on 06/24/2010 7:04:04 PM PDT by mainsail that
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To: riri

It’s just so hard to believe that this could be the fate of the USA. Pillaged by money lenders.


70 posted on 06/24/2010 7:17:15 PM PDT by Mere Survival (Mere Survival: The new American Dream)
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To: Mere Survival

An open letter to Persia:

After 2,500 years, you finally have your chance to take and keep Greek soil. What are you waiting for? Xerxes the XXXXXXXIIVIXXXI awaits.


71 posted on 06/24/2010 7:27:38 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (California Bankruptcy in 4... 3... 2...)
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To: dljordan

beat me to it

now I’ve gotta find some other witty thing to say

please hold


72 posted on 06/24/2010 7:35:34 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: Mere Survival

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

Ah, its all Greek to me..


73 posted on 06/24/2010 7:36:19 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Soothesayer9

I fear the Greeks, even when they come bearing gifts.


74 posted on 06/24/2010 7:40:17 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I'm no longer so frightened. I'm simply disgusted, It feels better.)
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To: alecqss
Obama prepares the same for us.

Auction off California first...

75 posted on 06/24/2010 7:43:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: Mere Survival

I might buy one!


76 posted on 06/24/2010 9:24:40 PM PDT by b4its2late (Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Given the disagreements I’ve seen here, the nation of Freerepublic would probably self-destruct within minutes. But I’d still chip in just for the principle of the thing.


77 posted on 06/24/2010 9:41:13 PM PDT by Ellendra (Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
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To: rawhide

She wanted them to sell Corfu. LOL


78 posted on 06/24/2010 10:24:16 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Mere Survival

Maybe Ellen and Rosie can buy the Island of Lesbos.


79 posted on 06/24/2010 10:28:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mere Survival

Been to the north entrance of Yellowstone lately?


80 posted on 06/24/2010 10:32:17 PM PDT by hsrazorback1 (Seek truth.)
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