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India-Pakistan
The right lessons from Greece
2015-07-10
[DAWN] THE implosion of the Greek economy, the rise of Syriza and the implicit blaming of Greece's creditors for the country's woes present important lessons that should be drawn upon. The danger is that many people, including in Pakistain, are preparing to draw the wrong set of lessons.

Greece got itself into a mess by not taxing sufficiently its richest elites, and by overspending on a bloated, overpaid and underworked public sector. Poor choices by politicians for decades, fully supported by a complicit populace that was only too happy to condone the perpetual postponement of serious structural reform, have finally caught up. Despite the massive and heartrending current suffering of ordinary Greeks, the foregoing is the sorry story of the saga which is unfolding in southern Europe. (In the villains' roll call, one cannot not include the ever-willing 'banksters' who continued to bankroll Greece's free-spending. But Greece created the conditions for borrowing, not the other way around.)
Posted by:Fred

#5  Eight levels of socialist control, oftentimes mistakenly attributed to the late Saul Alinksy:

1) Healthcare
Control healthcare and you control the people

2) Poverty
Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

3) Debt
Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

4) Gun Control
Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.

5) Welfare
Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)

6) Education
Take control of what people read and listen to � take control of what children learn in school.

7) Religion
Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools

8) Class Warfare
Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-07-10 17:16  

#4  Maybe, there's no Magic Money Tree.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-07-10 07:45  

#3  >Greece got itself into a mess by not taxing sufficiently its richest elites,

Oh dear.

Here's some different ideas on solving Greece's problems. Don't agree with them all.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-07-10 05:02  

#2  Ya, too bad.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-07-10 04:13  

#1  Notice the leftards always blame the victims, women, banks...etc...
Posted by: Percy Sholuck6940   2015-07-10 00:18  

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