ATHENS — Stories of eye-popping waste and abuse of power among Greece’s bureaucrats are legion, including officials who hire their wives, and managers who submit $38,000 bills for office curtains.Read the rest here.
The work force in Greece’s Parliament is so bloated, according to a local press investigation, that some employees do not even bother to come to work because there are not enough places for all of them to sit.
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Since the traitorous Greek government was "obliged" (by bribes and/or intimidation) to borrow all that money in order to bring about this crisis, they HAVE to find SOME way to spend it all, don't they?
ReplyDeleteCutting the deficit would be self-defeating, if the plan is to break Greece as an independant, sovereign nation and absorb it into a pan-European government.
ReplyDeleteNeed to *increase* that deficit, baby!