In 1922, Greek armies trying to conquer western Anatolia were routed by Turkey's military leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks were uprooted from Ionian coastal areas.
After this debacle, Greek officers took three former prime ministers, a general and two other politicians who had led the Turkish-Greek War and shot them. Greeks cheered.
Many Greeks today must be wishing to see similar punishment inflicted on their politicians and bankers who were responsible for the nation's bankruptcy and staggering $500 billion debt.
For decades, Greece's conservatives and Socialist parties alike bought votes by dishing out the very cushy, do-nothing government jobs, high pensions, and benefits that brought Greece to its knees. Call it state sponsored laziness.
Politicians know that if they can put 51% of the population on the government payroll, their party is assured of permanent power.
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Greece is just the poster child. This VERY SAME thing is going on in the U.S., but our politicians (great leaders that they are) continue to spend and promise the world to everyone who doesn't work, scams the system with their bogus "disability", gets their kids classified as "disabled", has lived in public housing for generations, etc. They contribute NOTHING but have their hands out for everything. The only people he wants to take from are the ones who actually built this country and continue to build it. Remember, the Greeks are not an armed populace. They throw rocks and bottles at their protests. When Americans can't feed their families or afford to heat their houses, or generally just get fed up, rocks are the LAST thing we're using.
ReplyDeleteIm Clain,
ReplyDeleteThe politicians work for the Bankers. The issue is the Bankers. Not the politicians.