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Jun 4, 2011, 06:40 PM
 
WTF ? Let them go f*cking broke.



Stupid-ass Germans and Europeans are still throwing good money after bad.

It's impossible that Greece gets out of this mess w/o restructuring. Everyone knows it. Giving them more money is like giving more heroin to a junkie. It's kicking the can down the road.

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With respect, your commentary is pretty meaningless without context or a link. There are pro-Nazi rallies held by morons all over the world.
     
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
With respect, your commentary is pretty meaningless without context or a link. There are pro-Nazi rallies held by morons all over the world.
The context is that these Greeks are likening the EU to the Third Reich and telling it to "F off" by means of the moutza.

The swastika inside the EU ring of stars is a well-known anti-EU flag all over Europe.
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
With respect, your commentary is pretty meaningless without context or a link. There are pro-Nazi rallies held by morons all over the world.
Good point. The article I took the pic from is in German, so it wouldn't be of much use.
Doofy already set the stage for the context. I'll supply some english language later.

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Jun 5, 2011, 07:58 AM
 
Have they figured out a Euro exit mechanism yet?

Was pretty shortsighted not to bake one in from the start.
     
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Jun 5, 2011, 08:52 AM
 
No, they did not. It was very shortsighted, and naive.

Coincidentally, the countries in Europe are like the states in the US: bad behavior gets rewarded by the EU / Federal government.

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Originally Posted by mduell View Post
Have they figured out a Euro exit mechanism yet?

Was pretty shortsighted not to bake one in from the start.
The intention behind the Euro was to further the permanent political power of the EU, thus no exit mechanism was devised.
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Jun 5, 2011, 11:32 PM
 
Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
WTF ? Let them go f*cking broke.

Stupid-ass Germans and Europeans are still throwing good money after bad.

It's impossible that Greece gets out of this mess w/o restructuring. Everyone knows it. Giving them more money is like giving more heroin to a junkie. It's kicking the can down the road.
They're still doing the same thing in the US with this bailouts and failure-to-restructure as well.

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Have they figured out a Euro exit mechanism yet?
They got their game plan:

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Greece is dead. Default is coming in the next weeks. No way around it.
Europe will have a oh-shit-style Lehman Brothers moment, Portugal will be next in line to default sometime later this year.

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Feb 12, 2012, 11:58 PM
 
The actual physical implementation should be interesting. All sorts of problems come up if they announce it too far in advance. But they have to start printing drachmas so they have enough on hand for the first bank day.
     
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Feb 13, 2012, 12:44 PM
 
The actual physical imlementation will be a huge mess - just like everything else in Greece in the last 10 years.

Expect the Euro to stick around as the only currency that will buy anything for an extended period of time.

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Feb 13, 2012, 01:02 PM
 
There are some in the UK that say the Germans should just pay back, with interest of course, what was taken from the Greek Central Bank in WW2.

Hmmm, how many billions would that be?
     
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Feb 13, 2012, 04:46 PM
 
Originally Posted by mattyb View Post
There are some in the UK that say the Germans should just pay back, with interest of course, what was taken from the Greek Central Bank in WW2.

Hmmm, how many billions would that be?
From googling I've found references to $23B (unclear on what year the dollars were measured in, but I assume they mean current year) that was 80% repaid. So maybe $4.6B? Greece needs a $300B bailout.



"They force borrowed from the Central Bank of Greece 10,582,120 British gold pounds, equivalent to $23.5 billion."

Dertilis, G. B. "Results of the steps taken to compensate the country and individual victims". In Nazi gold: the London Conference, 2-4 December 1997, 300-301. London: HMSO, 1997.
Note: Approximately 80% of the gold claimed by Greece after WWII was restituted; the rest represented looted private holdings with incomplete claims. The author notes other claims that have not been met including silver, an imposed loan to Nazi Germany.
Shelved in the NARA Library at HV6665.G3L66 1997.
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Feb 13, 2012, 04:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by mattyb View Post
There are some in the UK that say the Germans should just pay back, with interest of course, what was taken from the Greek Central Bank in WW2.

Hmmm, how many billions would that be?
Ouch.
     
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Ouch.
I read today that Greece actually created a 13th "month" in order to avoid cutting worker pay as agreed to in order to secure debt concessions. They'd pay a 13th monthly check so that they could tell the German bankers that expenses were down by 4%. What cheez whiz!
     
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Feb 13, 2012, 07:23 PM
 
Only paying 13 months/year would be a cut, I think they were paying 13.5 or 14 before.

Seriously.
     
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Feb 13, 2012, 07:39 PM
 
Yes. It's customary in many European countries.

The 13th month pay covers vacations, the 14th month Christmas spending.
It's like a bouns, but w/o any merit component.

Entitled, lazy *&#$%^*.

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Originally Posted by mduell View Post
Only paying 13 months/year would be a cut, I think they were paying 13.5 or 14 before.

Seriously.
I read that too. From what i´m getting from International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News and other sources, one of the main problems is the lack of a functional tax authority leaving it unfeasible for the state Greece to raise and collect taxes in sufficient and (of course) legally justified amounts. The "rich greeks" seem to have transferred most of their money quietly to foreign countries during the last two years and the greek government is forced by the IWF/EZB/EU to accomplish the saving targets by simply reducing the minimum wages and pensions of the "normal people". Poor Greeks - and poor other "normal people" in the rest of the EU.


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Feb 13, 2012, 10:07 PM
 
On the plus side, very cheap vacations in Greece for many years to come. We're probably going there this year, after Emma pops out and gets a little older.
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Feb 13, 2012, 10:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by Shaddim View Post
On the plus side, very cheap vacations in Greece for many years to come. We're probably going there this year, after Emma pops out and gets a little older.
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Originally Posted by euphras View Post
sigh.
Hey, it's a good thing. We spend like crazed Japanese business men when we're vacationing.
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There are some in the UK that say the Germans should just pay back, with interest of course, what was taken from the Greek Central Bank in WW2.
They should shut up till they pay back all the lend-lease loans from WW2. Glass houses and stones and all.
     
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Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
Yes. It's customary in many European countries.

The 13th month pay covers vacations, the 14th month Christmas spending.
It's like a bouns, but w/o any merit component.

Entitled, lazy *&#$%^*.

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Can you point to another country that does it that way? I travel in large parts of Europe, and I've never heard of it before. It would be a huge disadvantage for manufacturing, so I can't believe that anyone would put a plant in such a country, and we have plants in a lot of European countries.

The 13 or 14 months thing was originally a way to get around a salary cap-like thing.
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Can you point to another country that does it that way? I travel in large parts of Europe, and I've never heard of it before. It would be a huge disadvantage for manufacturing, so I can't believe that anyone would put a plant in such a country, and we have plants in a lot of European countries.

The 13 or 14 months thing was originally a way to get around a salary cap-like thing.
When was the last time you built a new plant in Europe?
     
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Can you point to another country that does it that way? I travel in large parts of Europe, and I've never heard of it before. It would be a huge disadvantage for manufacturing, so I can't believe that anyone would put a plant in such a country, and we have plants in a lot of European countries.

The 13 or 14 months thing was originally a way to get around a salary cap-like thing.
I know it from Germany. They call it "13tes Monatsgehalt".
I used to get 50% of a months salary for vacation, and 50% of a months salary for Christmas.

I think this has been cut back in Germany quite a bit in teh last years, as part of becoming more competitive.

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Speaking of 13 months, I would love to move to an international 13 month calendar of 28 days plus New Year's Day and an occasional Leap Day. It's always 4 weeks, the week starts on a Monday, and the days never change year to year.
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Interesting idea.

So, on New Years, the count goes like this ?

Monday - New Years Eve (12/31)
New Years (01/01)
Tuesday (01/02)

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Speaking of 13 months, I would love to move to an international 13 month calendar of 28 days plus New Year's Day and an occasional Leap Day. It's always 4 weeks, the week starts on a Monday, and the days never change year to year.
A lunar calender would make my life easier, that's for sure.
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Feb 14, 2012, 05:19 PM
 
Vacationing might be cheap, but I'm not taking my family anywhere near turmoil. That includes downtown Boston.
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And no daylight savings.
     
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You guys are only getting half of the picture. Spending is only part of the problem. The real cause of the crisis is systemic tax evasion by not only the "rich" but even the middle class. Nobody in Greece has been paying their fair share of taxes.
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Well yes, and this is nothing the EU can fix. Greece needs to fix themselves. And it won't happen before their is a true revolution. Maybe even civil war. This is nothing bureaucrats can fix on paper.

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Well yes, and this is nothing the EU can fix. Greece needs to fix themselves. And it won't happen before their is a true revolution. Maybe even civil war. This is nothing bureaucrats can fix on paper.

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No, what needs to happen is temporary martial law and force everyone to pay their f'ing taxes or get sent to prison. A revolution will solve nothing because it it the "people" who are the problem in Greece. They want everything without actually paying for it in income taxes. It's called "theft".

Members of the middle class have large houses with swimming pools in their backyard and I'm not talking about those temporary ones but actual "in the ground" swimming pools. The government spent money that they did not have because nobody was willing to pay anything.
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The government spent money that they did not have
Sorry, that's still the main problem right there. Dressing it up, making excuses for it, who did or didn't do something else doesn't change it. If the taxes don't come in, you don't get to spend like crazy. That's how the real world works anyway. I realize that all governments operate outside the real world, and some more than others.

Look at the bright side though- in the US we've got knuckleheads doing everything in their power (and way beyond) to drive our country straight into the same toilet Greece is in. Spending money we don't have. Misery loves company, and Greece will have a lot of company.
     
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Sorry, that's still the main problem right there. Dressing it up, making excuses for it, who did or didn't do something else doesn't change it. If the taxes don't come in, you don't get to spend like crazy. That's how the real world works anyway. I realize that all governments operate outside the real world, and some more than others.

Look at the bright side though- in the US we've got knuckleheads doing everything in their power (and way beyond) to drive our country straight into the same toilet Greece is in. Spending money we don't have. Misery loves company, and Greece will have a lot of company.
Sorry but if you used the services of the government knowing full well that you were not paying your taxes then you are a thief, period.

Did you expect them to just shut down the government? Did you see the riots? The people there were part of the problem. They had irrational expectations to continue to receive the benefits of government programs without actually paying taxes. That does not compute.

Listen, I hate paying my taxes in Canada like the next guy but I'm smart enough to understand that I have to pay some taxes to someone to keep the country or province I live in running.

I would prefer to have the provincial government collect income tax instead of the federal government and just pay a 10 percent federal sales tax while abolishing the provincial sales tax all together. The provincial governments in Canada are the ones that deliver the lion's share of services to citizens anyway and I'm tired of having my federal tax money subsidizing the ridiculous social welfare in Quebec. I also don't think we should subsidize the atlantic provinces. Let them collapse and have the people move westward if necessary.

The federal government should be much smaller than it is and survive on import taxes and duties, import tariffs and sales tax. I know that is not going to happen but that is how it should work. Maybe the provinces could pay some money to the federal government for defence and border control.
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Feb 15, 2012, 03:39 AM
 
Originally Posted by aristotles View Post
Sorry but if you used the services of the government knowing full well that you were not paying your taxes then you are a thief, period.
If you spent money you didn't have proving 'services' for someone who shouldn't be receiving them, then you're a thief, period. And that's pretty much where the buck stops.

But like I said, not to worry- it's the model that other governments are doing everything they can (legal or otherwise) to emulate, not run away from.
     
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It's like a bouns, but w/o any merit component.

Entitled, lazy *&#$%^*.

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Not like those bank CEO's then?
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They should shut up till they pay back all the lend-lease loans from WW2. Glass houses and stones and all.
You need to read more, and I don't mean comics. End of 2006 the loans were repaid.
     
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From googling I've found references to $23B (unclear on what year the dollars were measured in, but I assume they mean current year) that was 80% repaid. So maybe $4.6B? Greece needs a $300B bailout.

"They force borrowed from the Central Bank of Greece 10,582,120 British gold pounds, equivalent to $23.5 billion."

Dertilis, G. B. "Results of the steps taken to compensate the country and individual victims". In Nazi gold: the London Conference, 2-4 December 1997, 300-301. London: HMSO, 1997.
Note: Approximately 80% of the gold claimed by Greece after WWII was restituted; the rest represented looted private holdings with incomplete claims. The author notes other claims that have not been met including silver, an imposed loan to Nazi Germany.
Shelved in the NARA Library at HV6665.G3L66 1997.
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When was the last time you built a new plant in Europe?
Built new, no - those decisions are slightly above my pay grade - but we are constantly moving products between (internal) plants in different countries for cost reasons, and eventually plants that are not making money are closed. I would know if the sort of benefits the Greeks are offering were common in any of the countries we do business in. While we have no business in Greece, we do in most European countries.
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In France there are companies that pay staff over 13 months. The 13th month is split in 2 and you get half of it at the end of June and half in mid-December.
     
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Not like those bank CEO's then?
It's always been my opinion that the big banks should have been let go bankrupt (no bailouts), and the banksters prosecuted for breaking all kinds of laws. In the subprime mortgage fiasco was enough criminal activity that you could jail most bankers. But they are shielded by corrupt and paid-off politicians, that's why nothing is happening.

In the end, it still needs a revolution (in Greece, as well as here), because you need to purge the system from corruption both on Wall Street and Washington.

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Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
Interesting idea.

So, on New Years', the count goes like this ?

Monday - New Year's Eve (12/31)
New Years (01/01)
Tuesday (01/02)
Not quite. The neat thing about this calendar is that the last day of the month is always a Sunday and it's always the 28th. So it would be:

Sunday - New Year's Eve 13/28/2012 (remember, December is now the 13th month.)
New Year's Day, 2013 (it's its own day, not apart of a month. Just referred to as New Year's Day followed by the year.)
Monday - 01/01/2013

Leap Day follows the same format as New Year's Day, except it takes place between June and Sol (Sol being the new month, but I'm not keen on the name. I'd rather it be named Luna since it's a lunar calendar.)
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Feb 15, 2012, 02:00 PM
 
Cool. I could live with that.

Would throw a monkey wrench in financial reporting though. How do you report Quarterly numbers ?

Q1 = Jan 1 - April 7 ?

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Feb 15, 2012, 02:28 PM
 
Originally Posted by aristotles View Post
You guys are only getting half of the picture. Spending is only part of the problem. The real cause of the crisis is systemic tax evasion by not only the "rich" but even the middle class. Nobody in Greece has been paying their fair share of taxes.
I wonder if they have EITC like we have here, where people pay NEGATIVE taxes. Not just 'opportunity cost' negative taxes, or shadow rebates by not paying for services they use, but actual receipt of dollars back that they never paid into the system. Do they already have that, too.
     
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Cool. I could live with that.

Would throw a monkey wrench in financial reporting though. How do you report Quarterly numbers ?

Q1 = Jan 1 - April 7 ?
Yep. Every 91 days, or 13 weeks. 364 days is evenly divisible by 4. Seems even simpler to me.
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Apr 5, 2012, 03:14 PM
 
LOL, someone put Greece up for sale on eBay:

Today's Ebay Special - The Country Of Greece | ZeroHedge

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Apr 5, 2012, 03:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by mattyb View Post
You need to read more, and I don't mean comics. End of 2006 the loans were repaid.
10% nominal value at a 2% interest rate is a gesture not a repayment.
     
 
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