Thursday, March 20, 2008

GREECE : WHAT A DISGRACE FOR THE COUNTRY THAT GAVE BIRTH TO DEMOCRACY

WHY TODAY DEMOCRACY IS NOT ALWAYS GOOD.WHY EXCESSIVE FREEDOM IS BAD THIS TIME.

Greece is paralyzed for the last two weeks from major union stikes as most people oppose th the insurance legislation reform that current Government tries to pass.

Under almost all circumstances Democracy is the best political system.Being Greek I am proud of our history as our ancestors were the inventors of Democracy.Ancient Greece created some of the best political ideas ever.

But things change.Sometimes drastically.What happens the last two weeks in Greece makes me feel total disgrace,anger,hate for many things.As current Government tries to reform the public insurance system by making radical changes such as cutting back the pension of many people in the future,increasing the age at which most people will be able to get their pension we must highlight a few top important things:

  1. The fiscal and monetary policy and bad management of previous governments namely the Socialistic Party (Pasok) was a total disaster for the country.These "Politicians" ruined the Greek Economy skyrocketing the fiscal debt by investing in non-productive resources and perks and making scandals.Take for example the collapse of Olympic Airlines.Now the funny thing is that the union labors are mostly supporting the Socialistic Party!It is an irony that people that made such a bad mess and harm to the Greek Economy now try to fight for its best thing!
  2. Current Government shows that it has no pulse,strength, power,respect.It tries to take radical decisions but they miss one thing.Seem untrustworthy as for two weeks they have let the country be abused by strikes in Electricity,Public transport,Financial System and most of all Public Health as the garbage collectors are on as trike and tons of trash and garbage have flooded the streets with a huge menace to public health.
  3. People who react to the insurance legislation must think someday soon that they have caused the public anger of most people as they pose a threat to ordinary social and economic life with immense negative aspects.Most people who deal with commerce complain that they have seen their income be evaporated due to strikes and their products have been altered in taste and conservation conditions such as frozen foods.When you cut the electricity and provoke chaos in social life not one time but repeatedly over many days you are not a hero.You are a criminal.You are nobody.When yo do not collect trash you are a criminal.After all it was your choice to do this filthy job.Yes you should be paid more but you just cannot refuse to collect garbage and menace my health.

What can you say to :

  • People who had an car accident
  • Elderly people
  • Small Children
  • People whose life depends on electrical power.

Protestants are criminals.Things have lost control.Lets get back to reality.

In the last elections I did not vote any politician party.In the land of democracy you cannot make compulsory the right to vote!Let people choose if they want to vote or not!

So in a nutshell :

  • All governments in Greece are useless!Pasok created this chaos.New Democracy is trying to fix things with radical measures and high political cost but they are useless as they have failed to use the necessary backup services to make the Economy and Society work again.If these strikes are and should be illegal then why not impose legal actions,harsh ones immediately?
  • Strikers are criminals for the above reasons!They have let the country paralyze due to their stubbornness and stupidity!
  • A conspiracy is made,a silent one towards private insurance companies to grab this one in a time opportunity and fill the gap in private insurance!Private insurance has a lot room to grow in Greece but the services offered are not so good!

Being An Economist and a Greek citizen I feel total anger,disgrace and pity for what is happening in Greece.This is not an EU country but an undiscovered primitive country.

All have their responsibilities.Take action now or chaos,disorder and unpleasant situations will occur in a more severe way.

And all citizens should sue the public monopoly electricity company (ΔΕΗ) for huge amount of money.Even if it collapses.Also sue the people who work in the trash collection.Sue the incompetent politicians!

Take action now!

Greece deserves a better chance and life.We have had enough with the anarchy.

A post by Stavros Georgiadis at the blog http://www.themoneycosmos.com a money blog.

tags : Greece,Politics

posted by Stavros Georgiadis @ 1:04 PM 23 Comments