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where else? In Greece! More bailout money please! Let those hard working Germans eat cake!
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Even on a stiflingly hot summer's day, the Athens underground is a pleasure. It is air-conditioned, with plasma screens to entertain passengers relaxing in cool, cavernous departure halls - and the trains even run on time.
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The transport perks are not confined to the customers. Incredibly, the average salary on Greece’s railways is £60,000, which includes cleaners and track workers - treble the earnings of the average private sector employee here.
No wonder Switzerland opted out of this redistribution scam.
Because Greece hasn't really followed through on their austerity plans.
And now they get a free pass to roll over their debt and kick the can down the road a while longer.
The overground rail network is as big a racket as the EU-funded underground. While its annual income is only £80 million from ticket sales, the wage bill is more than £500m a year — prompting one Greek politician to famously remark that it would be cheaper to put all the commuters into private taxis.
Krugman's economics booby prize
An educational comparison akin to comparing d*ck sizes between the blog author and Krugman
"The private sector just needs to catch up with the public sector"
Just look in your backyard my old co-workers can make that in a year with overtime and i grant you they earn every dime of it...except the company pays the wages not the taxpayer....
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