Lostplanet22 said:
NJ5 said:
routsounmanman said:
Bamboleo said:
Dude, come over Portugal, stay here for two months and then return Greece.
You'll love your country like you never did in your life.
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Really? Why's that? I hear things are a bit better than here.
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I have never lived in Greece and I don't currently live in Portugal, but from all I've read it seems corruption is a much bigger problem in Greece than in Portugal.
Portugal has its fair share of problems, many of which are usually blamed on the fact that we were under a dictatorship before 1974 (and that was a regime that stopped the country from developing, as opposed to many dictatorships which actually advance the country in some way). But I still don't see why Bamboleo has that opinion.
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Yeah Greece belong to the top of most corrupt European countries...To give an example:
Papandreou, who is poised to announce social security reforms and tax increases (homing in on doctors, lawyers, bar and nightclub owners who are among the biggest tax evaders in an underground economy estimated to be about 30% of GDP) has found help from an unlikely quarter.
Basically the hardworking honest greek now has to suffer because of those tax evadars..... Maybe EU should help with sending Agents to find those tax evaders.
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You pretty much hit the nail in the head. Corruption is EVERYWHERE here in Greece. You go to a doctor and he outright tells you: with receipt - 80 Euros, without - 50 Euros.
The other very large problem with us is that the clergy is considered public sector workers, thus cannot be fired, get great pensions and contribute nothing to the economy; we also spend too much on our army.
