warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I should probably clarify some of the comments I've made here lest some people think I'm anti-Greek or something.
Why is there a crisis in Greece? Because they ran out of money. Why did they run out of money? From my understanding it is for 2 reasons:
1. Swanky & usually unnecessary public jobs created by the government for 1/3 of the country, with amazing benefits, long vacation, and super early retirement.
2. Tax evasion.
So the EU steps in and bails the country out, under one condition: Reform! Get rid of some of those swanky benefits..
Was that really too much to ask for? Is it humiliating? Really?
I know it's easy to talk about this from 10,000km away, but if my government was so incompetent as to run a country like that, I'd be mad at them.. not at the "financial institutions" or whatever. I'd also be mad at all the Greeks who don't pay their taxes.
Why is there a crisis in Greece? Because they ran out of money. Why did they run out of money? From my understanding it is for 2 reasons:
1. Swanky & usually unnecessary public jobs created by the government for 1/3 of the country, with amazing benefits, long vacation, and super early retirement.
2. Tax evasion.
So the EU steps in and bails the country out, under one condition: Reform! Get rid of some of those swanky benefits..
Was that really too much to ask for? Is it humiliating? Really?
I know it's easy to talk about this from 10,000km away, but if my government was so incompetent as to run a country like that, I'd be mad at them.. not at the "financial institutions" or whatever. I'd also be mad at all the Greeks who don't pay their taxes.
