[BITList] Greece

[John Feltham]

From a correspondent…



 Greece
 
 
 
   
 
KINDA EXPLAINS IT.

The experts mandated by the European Union to investigate the causes that led Greece to the current economic situation relate the following facts:

- Greece falsified its accounts to enter the euro and has distorted reality until it exploded

- There was a massive number of retirees at age 50

- There were up to 50 drivers per official government car

- There were 45 gardeners for a small lawn with 4 bushes at Evangelismos Hospital

- Greece has the highest population of non-existent people reporting an age of 110 years

-Deaths are often not registered and pensions continue to be paid

- The European Union has found that there are families receiving 4-5 pensions, which are not intended for them

- There are still pensions still being paid to people who died in 1953, over 50 years ago

- 40 000 girls receive a monthly life pension of 1,000 euros for the simple fact that they are
   unmarried daughters of deceased civil servants and it costs the state coffers EUR 550 million per year

- Cardiac pacemakers in Greek hospitals were acquired at a price 400 times higher than British hospitals paid.
- In Greece, many workers have benefited from early retirement, set at 50 years for women and 55 years for men
who belong to one of the 600 job categories identified as particularly painful, and among which are included hairdressers (because of dyes that may be considered harmful), blowing into wind instruments musicians ( into a flute is exhausting) or TV presenters (the microphones are supposed to cause damage to health)
  (This law was adopted by the government of 1978)

- There are thousands of good "tricks" departments and unnecessary institutions, which many Greeks work for.
  For example the Institute for the Protection of Kopais Lake, a dry lake since 1930 employs 1763 Greeks.

- In the last decade, it has created over 300 new public enterprises

- Tax fraud is massive, over 25% of Greeks do not pay a penny on the income of individuals

- In addition, the weight of the public sector in the economy is crushing
  There are about one million officials out of 4,000,000 working people

- The average salary of employees of the Greek public railways exceeds EUR 66.000.- per year.
  And this includes the cleaners, and low-skilled workers
  The (almost free) Athens Metro delivers about 90 million tickets per year, while the total cost of
  this public company exceeds 500 million euros.

- French retirees receive on average 51% of final salary, German 40%, North Americans 41%
  and the Japanese 34%. Meanwhile, Greek pensioners receive 96% of their previous salary

- Greece has four times as many teachers as Finland, the country in the top place in the last PISA report,
  yet Greek students came near the bottom in almost all educational tests while their teachers as well as those of Spain and Portugal are the highest paid in the world and have the lowest teacher-to-student ratio.




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