Here’s a
short excerpt from an essay about Greece. It will prepare you for the essay
below about Greece and the G-d of Israel. The essay, “Greece: watching the
wheels come off”, is by Maria Polizoidou. It was published June 14, 2015 at the
gatestoneinstitute:
…Greece is
experiencing the perfect financial, political and social storm: all at the same
time, state structures have to deal with corruption and serious internal and
foreign security problems. It is the ultimate nightmare for every state. Greek
banks function not because they can, but because they have to. The Greek state
has stopped honouring its financial obligations toward private individuals and
enterprises. The state's revenue is enough only for civil servant salaries and
pensions.
Greece's
political system produces more laughter, more enemies and more entropy than it
can deal with. The gap between government and governed cannot be bridged by any
coalition of political parties. Greek lawmakers look like a cartel of
self-centered, corrupt puppets, who manage to survive in their jobs only
because they have appointed thousands of their parties' supporters to jobs in
the public sector, working as tax collectors, bureaucrats, port and airport workers,
gardeners, school guards, and so on.
The desire
of the political regime to hold onto power is the only reason why the Greek
state continues to pay 700,000 civil servants, in a country with a population
of 10,000,000. Members of the "party army," as it is called, in order
to keep their jobs, always vote for the same party that gave them these jobs.
The criterion for their employment is not their ability, but their political
beliefs.
The policy
the government is following, because of the recession and the lack of
liquidity, has created an undeclared social "civil war" between
well-paid civil servants and the unpaid employees of private sector companies
that provide services to the state, to whom the government owes billions of
euros in unpaid bills.
Anarchists
attack police forces almost weekly; and the violence between the "far
right" and "far left" is duly recorded on a weekly basis. All
terrorist groups -- old and new -- are just waiting for the right time to
declare war against everyone who disagrees with their beliefs and their view of
the world.
Add to this
socially explosive cocktail the 1,500,000 unemployed, and the 2,000,000 illegal
immigrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East, and violence -- as a
pattern of everyone against everyone -- seems as if could soon become ‘normal’…
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My comment:
now you’re ready to read the next essay.
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