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To: Snowshoe who wrote (72085)	1/18/2010 6:42:35 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Greece alone in Western Europe treats the military budget as a state secret. Rating agencies guess it is a ruinous 5pc of GDP. Does the country really need 1,700 battle tanks, 420 combat jets, and eight submarines? To fight NATO ally Turkey? Merely to pose the question is to enter dangerous waters. Who knows what the IMF surveillance team made of their mission in Athens. The Fund’s formula for boom-bust countries that squander their competitiveness is to retrench AND devalue. But devaluation is ruled out. Greece must take the pain, without the cure. telegraph.co.uk

To: Snowshoe who wrote (72085)	1/18/2010 3:20:53 PM
From: prometheus1976	9 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

You know,if anyone ever deserves to be banned from here it's Elmat..He comes here,makes no contribution and isn't capable of making a contribution. Then he carries on like a idiot with his rantings about the posters here,and pestering folks to go to "his" thread...Pure spamming. Geez,whenever I click Ignore to Off,there's Elmat like a damn annoying infomercial.. To paraphrase King Henry II "Who will rid me of this meddlesome one-shirted pole-smoker".. Surely there should be a thread free of this pest?? regards,P1976 P S..correction,he does have 1 ban already,could we please make it 2 ?