Come Sunday, the End of Greek Civilization

Posted by Vinay 9 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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Biggest brain drain in modern times, as the seat of Western civilization goes down the S-bend.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 2 months ago
    Human history seems to ebb and flow like the tide. When Reason and Logic rule great explosions of knowledge erupt; the libraries at Alexandria, the golden age of Pericles, the Renaissance, America. When Emotions and Superstition reign the four horseman of the apocalypse are unleashed; the Socialist experiments of the 20th Century, the rise of jihadist Islam. We are blessed and cursed at once to have reaped the benefits of 900 years of Reason and Logic while being forced to witness their ebbing away.
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  • Posted by mccwho 9 years, 2 months ago
    Guess the Greeks are living the word-for-word, Atlas Shrugged.
    The Brain Drain, Who is left to run the country and create jobs?
    The Government, yea right, lets see how that works out. Oh wait another country tried that, it did not work out so good. But those who fail to learn form the past are doomed to repeat the same mistakes,
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    • Posted by 9 years, 2 months ago
      Very true. Atlas Shrugged is playing out in Greece, without John Galt, and Dagny Taggart.
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      • Posted by mccwho 9 years, 2 months ago
        And with all the college grads and entrepreneurs leaving, there will not be any John Galt's.
        Puts the country in a very dangerous spot, someone or some group could move in make all kinds of promises and take over the country. Then they will be even worse off.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 2 months ago
    It will be interesting to see what happens to the Euro in other countries if Greece goes back to the Drachma... Italy (or more accurately, Italians) have had issues with cost of living and financial issues since having to live on the (far wealthier) northern European economy, and have talked for some time about pulling out as well... I'm not sure what some of the other countries will do, but my feeling is it won't bode well for the Euro.

    While I don't think this is "the end of Greece" - they've been going through a major upheaval for a few years now, and have ridden out worse crises than this - following the Marxist model (which is a proven failure) will make people long for "the good old days". When Syriza fails (and it's pretty much a given it will eventually) the real question is - what will replace it?
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    • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 2 months ago
      Susanne... I think Greece 'ended' some years ago when the Greeks went on strike because they wanted higher wages and lower taxes, despite the obvious fact that their wages were being subsidized by taxes.

      There's either a socialist-thinking problem there or a flat-out IQ deficiency.

      But hey, lots of Americans draw the same stupid conclusions, too. Maybe it's a virus meme..
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 2 months ago
    as I posted there...

    And then some Greek bureaucratic moron will initiate a law to make the exodus illegal.
    Nobody recalls the British Brain Drain Exodus about forty or so years ago when wages were lousy in Britain and companies were paying engineers lots more in the US?
    Nobody in the US' Congress could connect the dots well enough to realize that corporate tax levels also indicate a degree of 'free-market competition' at the International Level?!
    It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 2 months ago
    Why do they have girl scouts patrolling? Are the pom-poms on the shoes for tickling something?

    This needs to result in the consequences it deserves. Sorry for the suffering of some. The unsustainable needs to be shown unsustainable.

    How long until the rest of Europe becomes similarly unsustainable? They cannot compete against the US or Asia. Is Europe the canary in the socialist coal mine, and can any or our leaders illustrate it so?
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    • Posted by Genez 9 years, 2 months ago
      If we had any real statesmen here, they would point to the Greek debacle and show people, in a few years, that's us.. If things don't change. The problem is that the uneducated masses always believe the "leaders" that say "we know better" or "we'll get it right this time".. I've always hoped that enough people might see and learn from what's happening in Greece and change our path.. The sad truth is that as AR illustrated in AS, I don't think people can be shown or educated, they must experience it for themselves. Until people experience the inevitable collapse, they will continue to think we can avoid it.
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      • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 2 months ago
        This is a real life AS cameo that needs communication. Maybe Ron Paul will use the example. Perhaps we can dissuade Jon Lovitiz to use his wit for our cause yet again.

        This is what Fox News should discuss, instead of Islam being the enemy. Socialism is a much more real enemy than any Islamic agent can pose within an order of magnitude!
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