Continuing on our theme of trying to answer the question: "Why the hell is Europe so affluent?",
my roomie G. Smaragdakis forwarded this
article to moi. This is in line with my earlier posts,
here and
here.
What I found distressing and indeed a sign of things to come is the bit where locals are selling their land to make ends meet. This way, soon most Greeks will be displaced by wealthy Europeans and Asians, and after that there will be land riots.
But almost all such articles do not address one issue which I'm certain would be a cause for concern - the burgeoning credit card debt of the local junta. From my greek contacts, they claim most people put almost everything on their credit cards. Shouldn't this be a cause for concern?
Atleast the credit cards help explain why regular people can afford 9 Euro coffees.
Blogging from HKG
If you want to protest. atleast do your research first.
Greeks apparently not too happy about DT buying their national telecom carrier.
That's fine, everyone has the right to complain and protest.
But at least
burn the right flags! Instead of burning Belgian flags!
Goes to show woeful knowledge of geography is not limited to the
US alone..
Take for instance, this seemingly
innocuous article.
Greece has a problem, so they want to solve it. The telling (and indeed loaded)
statement is in the last paragraph.
".. EU's smallest and poorest nations..".
I know many greeks, and imho, this is not true. Anyone who can afford 8 Euros coffee ain't poor (ok so I'm adopting an absolutist stance - bite me).
More interestingly, its the craven excuse given by the officials - this is what I find makes most of us similar - the excuses we give. For anything in life.
I can easily imagine a GOI operative giving a similar excuse for refugees from Bangladesh etc.
