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I'm sorry that's misleading. Germany has one vote on the ECB, the same number as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Malta and every other country. Greece was perfectly h

by mafribe 11y ago

I'm sorry that's misleading. Germany has one vote on the ECB, the same number as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Malta and every other country. Greece was perfectly happy to get cheap money. Instead of investing it in education, improved prductivity, Greece has been wasting it on an oversized army, extremely early retirement with cushy pensions for government employees, pointless olympic games, hagiographic articles in the NY Times and so on.

coldtea 11y ago
>I'm sorry that's misleading. Germany has one vote on the ECB, the same number as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Malta and every other country. Yeah, if only democracy worked outside of power plays and diplomatic and economic might... Because after all the number of votes is all that counts... >Instead of investing it in education, improved prductivity, Greece has been wasting it on an oversized army, extremely early retirement with cushy pensions for government employees, pointless olympic games, hagiographic articles in the NY Times and so on. I know. Those lazy southerners getting German money are the same kind of vermin that Jews were back in the day, right? Because what you wrote is word by word the same kind of BS propaganda repeated in German popular media, about some lazy, unproductive vermins ("PIIGS") wasting German tax-payers money. Here's some reality: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/16/greeks-work-harder-than-germans-who-knew/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/16... https://euobserver.com/social/124761 https://euobserver.com/social/124761
- mafribe 11y ago
  Your incessant racism is tiring. In any case, if Greeks are so hard working, then you are actually agreeing with my point about Greece not investing the huge subsidies that they have recieved wisely into "improved prductivity". As the WaPo article you quote says: "Caveat: Long hours at the office don’t always equate to high productivity".

by mafribe 11y ago

coldtea 11y ago

>I'm sorry that's misleading. Germany has one vote on the ECB, the same number as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Malta and every other country. Yeah, if only democracy worked outside of power plays and diplomatic and economic might... Because after all the number of votes is all that counts... >Instead of investing it in education, improved prductivity, Greece has been wasting it on an oversized army, extremely early retirement with cushy pensions for government employees, pointless olympic games, hagiographic articles in the NY Times and so on. I know. Those lazy southerners getting German money are the same kind of vermin that Jews were back in the day, right? Because what you wrote is word by word the same kind of BS propaganda repeated in German popular media, about some lazy, unproductive vermins ("PIIGS") wasting German tax-payers money. Here's some reality: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/16/greeks-work-harder-than-germans-who-knew/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/16... https://euobserver.com/social/124761 https://euobserver.com/social/124761

mafribe 11y ago
Your incessant racism is tiring. In any case, if Greeks are so hard working, then you are actually agreeing with my point about Greece not investing the huge subsidies that they have recieved wisely into "improved prductivity". As the WaPo article you quote says: "Caveat: Long hours at the office don’t always equate to high productivity".