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To: TobagoJack who wrote (135307)	8/28/2017 6:07:04 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217573

Total income in Greece is 45% less than it was in 2008, and it's been a straight line down ever since - each year worse than the year prior. Just about everyone there has received a 50% pay cut. If you think that's Greece "doing better" simply because they're now receiving hand-outs from China, you're grossly misinformed. China or Germany could easily help Greece end their endemic corruption, but the Greeks don't want to pay that price cost yet, so into the mud they sink. The Chinese government could show them how to enforce the death penalty for smuggling and fraud. The Germans have equally effective methods which don't involve bullets.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (135307)	8/30/2017 7:35:18 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217573

I like Greece and last year assisted my landlord Dmitri in avoiding kleptocrats by paying cash. When I withdrew 1000€ or so from an ATM it occurred to me that the government probably knows how much cash goes out from such machines but does not see half of it come in as tax payments. Dmitri particularly asked for cash and I was happy to oblige. Especially as he was so interested in my Tradable Citizenship ideology. His PhD son was due back from Europe and he was keen for us to have a discussion but i was leaving before he got there. The bigger governments have got the less they achieve. It used to be major communal construction but now it's just taking from producers to give to parasites ... in too much of the spending anyway. Hippie communes don't work and I have seen a few of them up close and personal. Whether they have a couple of dozen young baby boomer enthusiasts or 100 million serfs as in USSR China India Venezuela Zinbabwe etc the outcome is the same. Greece could be great again. So could England after Brexit. Just bring back those good old Virtuous Victorian Values now exemplified in a few places like Hong Kong, Singapore. London has got an excellent head start and seems to me to be the hub of the world. Beijing Tokyo New York Paris Berlin all lack a little je ne sais quoi. Bruxelles is the European jihad headquarters but that doesn't give it the cachet that the world's HQ requires. I just had an excellent day at Kew Gardens in London on Monday's bank holiday which is a good holiday on which to ponder such things. It was a beautiful very warm day. There is a large art piece there called The Hive. On seeing it from a distance I thought it would be just another expensive load of self indulgent pretentious chunk of opm down the drain. Not so. It is great. Especially when a swarm of people are in it. The Hive here... kew.org The Hive is like the Millau Bridge in that you need to be there and in and on it and with a big view to get the feeling of it. If China takes over Afghanistan then China could become the major opium supplier to England and thence to Europe. Also to USA. Dmitri also liked my idea for a sensible new money system. Not the block chain mechanism as that has design weaknesses. Mine is a natural unit of value measurement fully compliant with laws of physics including the need to minimize entropy creation and maximize efficiency. GO GREECE. Mqurice