So, what exactly is going on in Greece?

[Ulysses31]

Exactly ! As a good example : Do Not Feed The Bears at Yosemite or any other National Park or forest! :1orglaugh

Do not let The Bear 247 hear you say that, he'll rip you to shreds.

 

[LukeEl]

See I thought the problem with Greece was that too many dishes were being broken, because them Greeks like to dance around a break dishes. Either that or that not selling enough "gyros".

 

[saschaxx]

In Greece it works like this : Youré hungry, you join a gyros - stand. Weight of the gyros has to be 1 pound, but the gyros -man makes 20% less....but he´s askin you : * If you give me 2 more euro´s I´ll fill it up *
You wanna hire a car, there are 2 Mercedes for rent, eachone 100 euro´s per day. Both are free. One is rusty + in bad condition , the other´s shiny + nice. They offer u the old rusty thing for 100 euro´s ....but if u pay 50 more, u´ll get the shinyone for sure.
You got teeth pain so u join a dentist , you´re health - insured. So da dentist tells u : * Well, I´m busy now, so come back in 1 week , but if u pay me 200, ... I´m not busy no more * ....

 

[Supafly]

You did not notice some other issue... been watching a documentary these days.

If you want to get your drivers license... you have to pay the examiner 250 euros cash.

If not, he will always find some tiny mistakes in order to make you pay so many add-on lessons you would pay triple that. So everyone just lays that cash on the table and you are good.

 

[Ace Bandage]

Hey, remember back when Greece was a major world power. Yeah, me neither... :o

 

[oscabares]

The point is, it is the behemoth hedgefunds and the uncontrolled stock exchanges that were bringing down small countries like they now break Greece (And in future, look out for Portugal and Spain, Ireland...).

They bet on the downslide of, as an example government bonds from these countries, and as they buy so many shares of bad debt insurances for those, the stock exchanges lower the worth of those bonds. It is rather complicated, but it boils down to betting on the failure of a state or country.

And our leaders are actually afraid of those hedgefunds, but they are either not willing or unable to control them and regulate the laws for stack markets and hedgefunds that make it impossible to do as they do.

The concept of capitalism, as we know it, has completely failed.

You know, the masses get poorer and poorer, and we even have to bail out those banks who ripped us a new one and now they are back but they are not changing their game. The next breaking money bubble is around the corner, and we will be loosing even more of our money, in order to keep those bastards in the game.

Time to change the rules!

Spain is not the same case than Greece, we have a set of problem of our own. The "brik bubble" (taht's how we call it here) is just a part of the problem... a big one for sure, but not the worst.
To explain it all it would be long... and don't think you're really interested. But you can bet your money that Spain (with the change of the president) will be out of the problem in 4-5 years... unless we have to deal with the socialist party 4 more years, then we are fucked!

 

[saschaxx]

You did not notice some other issue... been watching a documentary these days.

If you want to get your drivers license... you have to pay the examiner 250 euros cash.

If not, he will always find some tiny mistakes in order to make you pay so many add-on lessons you would pay triple that. So everyone just lays that cash on the table and you are good.

But I´m sure he does´nt write u a bill for the 250,-- ??? Loooooollll

 

[Ulysses31]

Hey, remember back when Greece was a major world power. Yeah, me neither... :o

It was around about the time that the Romans ruled most of Europe

 

[saschaxx]

Think I´m goin to change my profession : Go to Greece, become examiner ( Terminator ) for drivers-licenses . :rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[saschaxx]

Greek aeroplane joke :


There was a Greek, a French and an American. The aeroplane was flying over America, and the American goes "Hey we are flying over America", the Greek and the French go "How can you tell?", the American goes "Because I can see the Statue of Liberty"...

A few hours later the French guy goes "We are flying over France", the American and Greek guy go "How can you tell?", the French guy goes "Because I can see the Eiffel Tower"...

A couple of hours later, the Greek guy goes "We are flying over Greece", the American and French guy go "How can you tell?" and the Greek guy goes "Because my watch is missing!"

 

[saschaxx]

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To be continued ....

 

[MrCandy]

I love you Olive

 

[saschaxx]

Greek aeroplane joke :


There was a Greek, a French and an American. The aeroplane was flying over America, and the American goes "Hey we are flying over America", the Greek and the French go "How can you tell?", the American goes "Because I can see the Statue of Liberty"...

A few hours later the French guy goes "We are flying over France", the American and Greek guy go "How can you tell?", the French guy goes "Because I can see the Eiffel Tower"...

A couple of hours later, the Greek guy goes "We are flying over Greece", the American and French guy go "How can you tell?" and the Greek guy goes "Because my watch is missing!"

...so THIS is what I wrote about GREECE 5 years ago . SEE them F U C K E R S now ....LOL !
...means, if you read all of my postings in this thread, was I right or was I wrong ...smile ..??

 

[288gto]

it is becoming what they really are, a shithole **** piece of ****

 

[Rey C.]

It was around about the time that the Romans ruled most of Europe

Otherwise known as, the good old days.

I imagine that the ancient Greeks would be totally ashamed of this modern crop. Once the Spartans left the stage and the rest of them eventually were reduced to being slave tutors for rich Romans' ****, I guess it was all down hill from there. Hey, if you don't want to pay taxes, load the country up with government workers, let people retire at 62 (it was 57) and borrow money that you couldn't possibly pay back within the next 500 years... no real surprise that your country is totally screwed, eh? :dunno:

 

[Ovidius]

What is happening is that it is finally dawning on the rest of the EMU members that they can either kick the Greeks out of the Euro, cut their debts by 50% or so, and let their new currency depreciate and bring Greek price levels to where they should be or(/i] they will have to go on and pay the Greek's bills for ever. The longer they postpone the inevitable the more it will hurt.

Hopefully this debacle will put an end to the overblown expansion plans, geographical and political, that the EU leadership seems to have at the moment, and maybe even to a retrenchment and closer cooperation and coordination between its core members.

 

[Jeny Smith]

well i feel this is the point where EU strats to ruin down. too many countries are dead because of ue join now. Ive been to Latvia Estonia Greece Cyprus they all look like all the young generation moved somewhere else. Also look really poor. locals say the countries are dying.
Look at france - ive been to paris and its really dirty town. Lots of cars covered by graffity, gabage, towns made of carton boxes where home less people live and everywhere african and arabian immigrants sitting on sidewalks and asking money. that wasnt expected to see there.

 

[Rey C.]

Jeny, you just got a glimpse of what America will look like by the time you're 60... if not before.

 

[288gto]

Well it's the Karma...

Greece ****** with it's membership in the EU to put extra conditions on some countries and to feed their medieval psychology for territory greed. They took a huge part of the Sea from Albania, caused there some riots from some idiots they paid to call themselves as greeks. After world war 2 they did ethnic cleaning from albanian minorities in north west greece.
They refuse to recognise the name of Macedonia, for a bullshit reason, also they did ethnic cleaning from macedonian minorities as well.
They use their membership in EU to opress the turkish minority and not recognise the Turkish part of cyprus.
Their idiot asshole orthodox priests, who in fact are similar or worse than ISIS, always talks **** agains those countries instead of helping the greeks find peace in their souls for what they have done.
Greece has always blocked these countries to enter the EU, but anyways screw EU, but just saying how Greece has ****** with it's position.
A **** party is in thei parliament, and you know where's the smoke there's the fire, non greeks there are afraid to speak their own language and are being atacked.
EU will help them for sure, they are same assholes, but if I was a leader of my country greeks would have an embargo from here and get blocked borders those pigs. We don't need
EU, they can go and drown with the greeks.

 

[Supafly]

Please take some time and read this article. The road to the situation in Europe and not only Greece in particular is far more compicated than believed, as most media and politicians like to paint it very differently and black and white.

EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece

This article was published before the Greeks voted “no” in the referendum on austerity.

Alexander Tsipras, the prime minister of Greece, has called a national referendum this Sunday to call the bluff of the European Union and International Monetary Fund who are trying to ***** his country to accept severe austerity in return for effectively rolling over much of the countries’ debt.

Today Greece owes its creditors €323 billion ($366 billion), some 175 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. How did it end up owing so much money?

“We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there,” Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economics, wrote in the Guardian newspaper today. “It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks.”

A recent CorpWatch report - The EuroZone Profiteers - can help shed further light on this matter. While it’s true that corrupt Greek politicians borrowed billions for shaky government schemes from these banks, there was a very good reason that the financiers made these rash loans: they were under pressure from European Union bureaucrats to compete in a global marketplace with U.K. and U.S. banks.

Take the German banks. While Anglo-American banking is dominated by many branches of a few major banks, Germany had some 4,000 unique institutions in 1990 that made up a three-pillar system of savings banks, co-operative banks, and private banks. These banks lived modestly on miniscule profits of one percent in comparison to Britain’s four mega-banks, which boasted returns as high as 30 percent on equity. Under pressure from Brussels, the German government agreed to push some of the bigger banks to become more “market oriented” by withdrawing state guarantees known as “anstaltslast” and “gewährträgerhaftung” to back them up in times of failure.

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Our German banks are make hundreds of millions as the country of Greece falls further, and THESE millions are ALWAYS being paid. VERY little of the whole money shoved in the direction of Greece reaches the country. It goes to those same banks that teased ther Greeks into their state, it is really very much like a *********** plot.

Look closely, other countries will follow.