Greek people are idiots.
I am not naive, I know how difficult and impossible it is to get large masses of people to act in a halfway intelligent, but is it too much to ask to have them not act like a bunch of olive oil smelling retards.
For quick reference, Greece is essentially bankrupt for the reason that most countries go bankrupt, their GDP is disproportionate to what they spend for their civil servants, social programs, and material costs that they use to run their country.
So as the government attempts to save their economy and therefore their country, from complete collapse by cutting spending, there are of course riots. So below is what I find most egregious about this whole thing.
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1. Let’s Strike!
- Okay, since tourism counts for 15% of the national GDP, let’s have every possible sector of public service shut down so that all planes are grounded and no public transportation is possible. Let’s completely stop generating money during a financial crisis because that will solve our problems.
2. Let’s Get Violent!
- Since so many people are striking with this notion that education is for sale, and that the future of the children will be terrible, let’s have riots where we hurl Molotov cocktails and stones at police officers. These awesome images will last in the public minds forever, thereby further undermining the legitimacy of the government - which is the most important thing to a government other than a healthy economy. Let’s teach the kids that rioting against their own government is an acceptable healthy activity, and that the 3 people who died were simply collateral damage.
3. Let’s Blame the Politicians.
- As someone who has studied politics, I LOVE when people who vote in a parliamentary system, the most representative government system possible (whereas we are a winner take all system), blame everything on the politicians. Remember the good old days when heredity was the only way to rule? well that went out a long long long time ago, and any government holding open elections that ultimately fails is a indictment on the people of that country, not the current establishment.
4. Let’s just blame everyone else possible other than ourselves.
- Maybe it’s Karma from the Holocaust, but I wonder how it is that the German people can be vilified by the Greek people as they bail them out from complete disaster. Greeks angrily declare that the Germans are vultures who lend Greece money at 5% while they take a loan themselves at a rate of 3%.
- So let’s think about this rationally. Why didn’t Greece get that same loan rate that Germany got?… hmm…. well maybe it’s because you ran your government so poorly and bankrupted yourselves that you don’t deserve a good interest rate. My credit score is above 800, should I get the same interest rate from a bank as some loser who has declared bankruptcy twice and defaults on their loans? WOULD THAT MAKE SENSE TO ANYONE?? If I were to get a loan from a bank and loan out that money to the bankrupt loser at a slightly higher interest rate, I am doing that person the favor, not the other way around.
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All of these things speak on behest of a general cultural stupidity, but probably more so a human stupidity to blame everyone but ourselves when things go wrong. Both the Greek people and government are notorious for tax evasion, and maybe this might be what infuriates me most. Because while it would effect the United States, I could really give two shits if meteorite hit Greece.
One of my top 10 pet peeves is people who cheat on their taxes, who at the same time bitch about them. I have a low tolerance to hear people lie to me, and it is worse when the people don’t even realize they are lying. I have heard people say that they cheat on their taxes because they get taxed too much, this is a lie. A person who cheats on their taxes will cheat on their taxes whether the tax rate changes from 36 to 28 percent, much in the same way that the person who steals from his company only does so because he likes steal, not because he is “underpaid”. The use of the word “IF” is always littered throughout this type of reasoning, and I am already tired of hearing it at 25 years old. God, I am going to be one cranky ass old man aren’t I?
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