Posted on 07/03/2015 8:10:40 PM PDT by Rockitz
Greece in teetering on the brink of ruin - and it is hard not to feel sympathy for the pensioners crying in the street and the mothers facing empty supermarket shelves.
Yet those reading a new book may find themselves feeling a little less compassionate towards the Greeks. It reveals an eye-popping catalogue of benefits scams and tax avoidance schemes that have robbed the public purse.
James Angelos' The Full Catastrophe: Travels among the New Greek Ruins lays bare the corruption which filtered through all levels of society - from the islanders who pretended to be blind, to the families who forgot to register their parents' death and the doctors who 'earn' just €12,000 a year - yet live in Athens' most exclusive neighbourhood.
It was the rumours of an 'island of the blind' which first bought Angelos, a journalist, to Greece in 2011.
He had heard that on Zakynthos, something like two per cent of the population were registered blind.
All was not quite how it seemed, however, and it transpired that 61 of the 680 'blind' residents were quite happily driving around the island.
In fact, an astonishing 498 of those 680 were not blind at all - or even partially sighted.
But being 'blind' had its advantages - in particular, the €724 paid in benefits once every two months, and a reduction in utility bills.
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>>The free market is the best way to organize the affairs of men, period.
Well, whoever wrote the Ten Commandments seems to disagree with that opinion:
Exodus 32:8
8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
>>This has got nothing to do with the SCOTUS...and marriage.
The SCOTUS is as much a Created Thing as the market you worship.
no, you’re mis applying that.
And you’re pretty much calling the Founding Fathers liars with respects to God. Like I said, you’re a confused bitter piece of work.
Right now Rush is making a fool out of all who don’t understand the Greek issue. That would be the lo info millennials and YOU.
I don’t worship the market, I know that the market incentivizes the best in human beings - win/win transactions in liberty.
What socialistic Marxist system do you prefer? ANSWER THAT OR STFU.
>>I don’t worship the market
Is the faith of American cult-ure in their Creator - or in the market?
Romans 1:25+ clearly articulates the cause and effect.
>>socialistic Marxist system
You mean like the one the Jesuit Central-banksters manufactured on their Reductions (communes) down in Paraguay... before they subsequently indoctrinated Karl?
How exactly did the CRA cause THAT?
>>Right now Rush is making a fool out of all
Rush Limbaugh the Fiscally Conservative RINOcratic Divorced drug addict.
That Rush?
So which Marxist system DO you favor?
And BTW, the forced mortgages, the elimination of under writing standards, pushed by government - then with the derivatives and credit default swaps and so on....that was crony capitalism, which is the same as socialism. None of that has anything to do with free enterprise.
Again,you are way over your head here.
Which Marxism do you like the best?
>>So which Marxist system DO you favor?
You mean like the one the Jesuit Central-banksters manufactured on their Reductions (communes) down in Paraguay... before they subsequently indoctrinated Karl?
How exactly did the CRA cause THAT?
The system I favor is GOVERNMENT founded upon what was articulated per the 10 commandments.
>>None of that has anything to do with free enterprise.
Well then, what did Alan Greenspan letting the “free market” figure out FRAUD instead of making rules to prevent FRAUD have to do with then?
Did “free enterprise” not manufacture...
...THAT 700 Trillion Dollar Turd?
we’re not talking about Paraguay. Paraguay didn’t have a free market.
You keep bringing up these socialist programs and blaming the free market on them. What are you doing? Auditioning for an MSNBC gig. By damn, I think you’ve qualified. You’re left of Bernie Sanders.
Greenspan screwed up....and he’s a bit of a crony capitalist anyway. That is hardly an indictment of the free market.....every example you’ve given is either out right socialist or a perverted market, not a free one.
And you keep digging your hole deeper, and still, too gutless and too ashamed to mention your preferred economic system. Too scared. Too frightened. You know it will embarrass you.
Here’s the free market for you:
Jesus and Joseph and their carpentry business.
Paul and his tent making operation.
Any more questions?
>>Greenspan screwed up...
Alan Greenspan, the High Priest of the FREE MARKET “screwed up”.
Uhuh. Doesn’t stop shills like you from polishing his turds though.
>>too gutless and too ashamed to mention your preferred economic system
My preferred economic system is the one the Creator put in place before Suuuuper Geniuses like you put all their gold into the fire and started worshiping the Ba’al that oozed out.
>>Paraguay didn’t have a free market.
Neither does the USSA.
How do the Jesuit’s Reduction Central Bank and the IMF differ?
http://www.google.com/#q=Paraguay+central+bank+reductions
>>Here’s the free market for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NrDX3Nu2U
“Waaoooo Werewolves of London.”
Maybe that's the perception you'd like to manufacture.
Meanwhile, in reality land, I believe every word on the walls of Thomas Jefferson's memorial is true.
How exactly does that "commerce between master and slave" thing work in an economy of "free market" predators that shats 700 trillion dollars worth of derivative a$$paper into the pond?
Oh Skippy you just stepped into your own steaming pile....that's right, Paraguay didn't have a free market...and neither do we now - so why are YOU blaming "the free market" for the failures of Paraguay and the USSA (as you call it)?
Thank you for admitting ignominious defeat so clearly and so without recourse on your part. Game set match to me....thanks for playing, drive safe.
Greenspan is not the high priest of the free market. He’s a Fed Reserve guy, which is not a free market contrivance.
Again, you continue to fail and flail. I will make sure everyone knows you are a marxist too.
You'd be lying.
But then what's "thou shalt not bear false witness" when you've already tossed "thou shall have no other gods before me" into the market fire.
You ever managed to produce anything other than your flatulent opion, BTW - or did you just ooze out of some pool of Ivory Tower slime like the rest of the parasites making the MSM 'rounds?
i”m not MSM.....and until you declare what economic system you prefer, I am not lying to call you a Marxist.
You can’t refute, because I’m right, Komrade...
>>why are YOU blaming “the free market” for the failures of Paraguay and the USSA
I’m not blaming. I’m challenging YOU to differentiate between the Jesuit’s Central Bank in the Communes that existed before they indoctrinated Karl Marx - and organizations like the IMF.
But once again, you FAIL.
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