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Media Crisis in Greece
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stratos13
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From: Αθήνα
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RE: Media Crisis in Greece (in reply to Florian)
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ORIGINAL: Florian please excuse my ignorance, just wanna try and understand why has it effected Greece so much worst than everyone else ...i have asked a few people and i got a few answers ...some of which seemed a little ignorant and simplistic what is the feeling in Greece ? why is it so much worst than anywhere else there ? The main concern is that the Greek State (not the Greek People) is very wealthy in terms of land, buildings, infrastructure, natural resources (lignitis, gold, oil etc). The debt is created by corrupted politicians through deliberate irrational management of resources (eg. a public company owning 30 buildings decides not to use them for offices, and instead rents private owned buildings for irrationaly big rents). What happens in Greece now is what happened to USSR after the fall of communism, at a smaller scale of course. The state's property is large and is at stake. Also, considering the natural resources. As long as i can remember myself I was hearing that Greece has oil as a conspiracy theory. You would hear it quite often, but it was considered by most of us something like the Loch-ness monster. If you were serious you just did not believe it. Then, some 2-3 weeks ago the resigning prime minister stated that the only way for Greece to go out of the crisis is to exploit the OIL under Crete! Suddently the "santa clause" seems like a real person! A thing also to be explained at this point is that Greeks are very hard workers. I have worked with Italians, French, Germans and their work hours are much less than ours. All people i know here work 10-14hours daily, most times including Saturdays. Retiring at 50 years has happened to very few people, and for these people the original wage was hardly over 1000euro/month at 30 years of service! Anyway, that is to say this country has suffered alot through the centuries, but we will certainly get out of this. We have also been attacked by statements like "modern greeks are not descendants of ancient Greece". My only answer to that is that when i go to the British Museum i can read the rossetta stone.
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