The Greek gravy train has a head of steam
Now crewed by the Syriza winning team They planned their route, it’s all set down Flags and bunting decorate every town Their plan is simple, although brand new Is it perhaps something we all should do? Free transportation for the frail and old Their daring plan is foolproof yet so bold Thousands of jobs created from thin air Other countries leaders just don’t care If they did, would they not do the same? They would magic jobs and play the game Jobs for the boys and for our women too You’ll be paid for sleeping and on the loo While our new plans fill Europe with rage We will pay you at least, a minimum wage From where will all this fine money come To take the Greek population off its bum? The government will get much-needed cash By taxing the rich and squeezing their stash Conglomerates too, will pay a bigger share Businesses everywhere will pay, that’s fair Poor brave Syriza, they just cannot know When you tax the rich they usually up and go Businesses across the land will simply relocate Corporation tax revenues fall and costs escalate Soon the government will run out of steam A year, perhaps two, then a shattered dream Out will come once more the begging bowl Please Deutschland dig us from this awful hole We kept faith with the euro as you dictated Our economy stands battered and decimated Achtung! Do not plant these seeds here sown Greece must blow the whistle on the Eurozone
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I am trying an experiment. I have fixed a label to my cover with a massive ‘bleak January’ price reduction to see if it raises any interest. I’d like to think it makes my Kindle e-book look more like an old-fashioned book on a shelf with its Special Deal sticker on the cover. Has anyone tried this? More importantly will it work?
Democracy is too powerful a tool to be placed in the hands of people that vote with their bellies and not their brains. Had Syriza (the Greek neo-Communist party now on the verge of being elected early next year) taken power at the last election, they would have plunged Greece into crisis and withdrawn from the eurozone. Things would now be improving (for some). After years of belt-tightening, stomachs listen to anybody offering food, even those whose food is rotten.
It's not something unique to Greece; in the UK there is a possibility that stomachs will vote for Labour next May. As before, the Party will spend what they don't have, borrow what they don't deserve and take a giant leap backwards. Four years later, rocked by crisis, they will go to the country and the Conservatives will be voted in by the brains of people that have had full bellies, but see that they haven't paid for the food. The cycle will start all over again. Those that lead America have overcome the problem of democracy. The President appears to be democratically elected, but once in the White House he finds his advisors have tied his hands and gagged him. Periodically, on some high profile, but relatively minor issue, they slip the leash and let him have his say. Thus the people ... the voters believe their chosen leader is truly running the country and thus avoid searching questions, insurrection and an overthrow of the control the hidden men have wielded since they had Kennedy bumped off. They will 'allow' a 'token' woman in soon; maybe, just maybe they will thus overplay their hand when they discover how difficult it is to gag a woman. |
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