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Originally Posted by Slappin Fish
Greece would have self destructed years ago if they hadn't conned the EU...
It can't be compared to the US. Corruption isn't the norm at every level of society in the US, tax collectors don't put checks strait their own pockets in the US, etc. Forbes ran a test using google maps to find pools in Athen's suburbs, out of the 17,000 pools only 324 had been declared on tax returns...this isn't just about a government, it's about scamming in every corner of greek life.
I often agree with you, here you are being completely dogmatic.
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Again, you're talking about events "after" things went to shit... Everything that happened to them is 100% the Gov's, Politicians and Banks fault.
Through the 70's Greece had one of the fastest growing economies in the world, like #2... as the 80's hit the peak slowed, so the gov started to pumped money in to the eco - to keep the gravy train going, thus inflation took off, this made the gov spend more to try and drive it down, but by the 90's they had spent too much and inflation was out of control. Really, this was one big pay off after another - everyone had money, so they spent it!
So during the 90's they cooked the books and got in the EU, yet didn't really change anything. As inflation dropped by almost half, they spent more on bullshit - like buying up public corps, rather than paying off debts.... during this time they rape everything, every fund, public money driver and rework them. Now the peoples benefits AND money are gone.
2010 shit hits the fan... the interest payments are more than they have.
All of which had zero to do with peoples pensions, taxes, jobs, etc... and it had 100% to do with the Gov, politicians and banks, taking massive paydays, over and over and over - they first took the countries wealth, then the corps, then the peoples money... which is about to happen again when they bail them out, this time other countries are paying out... it just keeps repeating.