Here's a 26 year old for ya!
In my own words : I am a bubbly fun-loving Greek gal, who works hard, and parties harder.
Posted on 11/23/2012 5:18:31 AM PST by IbJensen
That right there tells you everything, Forget the milk. The problem is bigger than dairy products or farming. The attitude that companies are "taking advantage" and that government needs to "do something" is why the world is a mess.
Government did do something for decades; hence the pain and suffering by these adult children both in Greece and in the USSA!
The rise of the Greek Golden Dawn party is actually interesting, not because of the invective of Nazism, but because what, in practical terms, might result, if Greece “goes Nazi”.
Remember that not too long ago, Greece was taken over by a “right wing” military coup for seven years, which I suspect is similar in practice to what the Golden Dawn want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967-1974
To start with, a Golden Dawn-led Greece would likely include the following:
Extremely anti-communist and socialist.
Very Eurosceptic, likely either leaving the EU or being kicked out.
Xenophobic, deporting illegal and legal immigrants.
Renouncing their international debts, and removing Greece from ‘internationalist’ organizations and treaties. Likely including NATO, unless they get into an active spat with Turkey.
Forming alliances with other right wing European and Russian groups.
Interestingly, I doubt that Greece would be aggressive, with the one exception being towards the tiny country of Macedonia, which is kind of a Balkan powder keg, since it is claimed by just about everyone in the region, including Greece. In the balance they would probably decide it wasn’t worth it.
The bottom line for a “Nazi Greece” is probably that it would deeply unhinge the European leftists and socialists, would boot out a lot of foreigners, but otherwise would not be intolerable, though the leftists and socialists would pretend that it was.
In total, perhaps more like Franco’s fascist Spain, than fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. As long as they kept to themselves, nobody cares but communists and socialists.
Drinking milk leads to suicide? Suicides and divorces, in almost every case, the victims had consumed milk sometime in their life..........makes one go Hmmmmmmmm
Cost of food in Serbia:
Milk: 1.2 Euros per 1 liter
Pork Meat: 5 Euros per 1 kg (2 pds)
Beef Meat: 7 Euros prr 1 kg
Loaf of bread 0.4 Euros 0.5 kg (1 pound)
Average salary 230 Euros per month
match that!
Mauldin, John (2011-02-09). Endgame: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything (p. 222). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
As it turned out, what the Greeks wanted to do, once the lights went out and they were alone in the dark with a pile of borrowed money, was turn their government into a piñata stuffed with fantastic sums and give as many citizens as possible a whack at it. In just the past decade the wage bill of the Greek public sector has doubled, in real terms—and that number doesn’t take into account the bribes collected by public officials. The average government job pays almost three times the average private-sector job.
The national railroad has annual revenues of 100 million euros against an annual wage bill of 400 million, plus 300 million euros in other expenses. The average state railroad employee earns 65,000 euros a year. Twenty years ago a successful businessman turned minister of finance named Stefanos Manos pointed out that it would be cheaper to put all Greece’s rail passengers into taxicabs: it’s still true. “We have a railroad company which is bankrupt beyond comprehension,” Manos put it to me. “And yet there isn’t a single private company in Greece with that kind of average pay.”
The Greek public-school system is the site of breathtaking inefficiency: one of the lowest-ranked systems in Europe, it nonetheless employs four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest-ranked, Finland’s. Greeks who send their children to public schools simply assume that they will need to hire private tutors to make sure they actually learn something. There are three government-owned defense companies: together they have billions of euros in debts, and mounting losses.
The retirement age for Greek jobs classified as “arduous” is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than 600 Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters, musicians, and on and on and on. The Greek public health-care system spends far more on supplies than the European average—and it is not uncommon, several Greeks tell me, to see nurses and doctors leaving the job with their arms filled with paper towels and diapers and whatever else they can plunder from the supply closets.
The Greek people never learned to pay their taxes . . . because no one is ever punished. It’s like a gentleman not opening a door for a lady. Where waste ends and theft begins almost doesn’t matter; the one masks and thus enables the other. It’s simply assumed, for instance, that anyone who is working for the government is meant to be bribed. People who go to public health clinics assume they will need to bribe doctors to actually take care of them. Government ministers who have spent their lives in public service emerge from office able to afford multi-million-dollar mansions and two or three country homes.
Meanwhile in California, cows are slaves, imprisoned in tiny compounds instead of being allowed to graze in free pastures as they did before they escaped from Wisconsin.
My mother-in-law lives in one of those pre-WW2 apartments that are huge. She rented a room to a Greek man who is an ex-soldier and paratrooper. He is learning German but speaks good English.
A month ago we were visiting my mother-in-law and he told me the situation is worse than reported about. He said gangs are roaming and it will take a whole new generation to fix things.
He is in top shape, so I suggested to my wife he might get a job through Holmes Place, because she works for them. Last week he got hired as a personal fitness trainer. :)
I would be willing to sponsor a attractive greek woman if she would like to leave Greece. :)
Greece is a shining example of (among other things) why a nation should never have a currency that it has no control of. They’d be better off with the old Drachma than the Euro. Too late now, it seems.
Here's a 26 year old for ya!
In my own words : I am a bubbly fun-loving Greek gal, who works hard, and parties harder.
No thank you
Why do any of you believe there will be another chance? You're fooling yourselves and you refused to look at reality in the face.
This is exactly the climate that was pre-Hitler Germany.
Franco was no fascist.
They really photoshopped that one up, eh?
Actually 'au natural'! Plus, she is actually a US citizen from Las Vegas who says she goes to Greece every summer to visit friends and family! I jus did a search and chose a good possibility for perdoggie! He quickly declined!!!!
I coulda posted a Helen Thomas pic!
Socialism always leads to poverty (except for the elite in the government-media complex and the “have-nots.”)
In other words, the productive, hard-working people get poor and no one else does.
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