[Samseau]

(06-09-2012 08:38 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

Samseau, I think that's a bit much. You are essentially saying immigrants to Europe are the reason for the financial meltdown of the Eurozone. How many immigrants end up in Greece? Greece is about 95% ethnic Greeks. Germany has a lot of immigrants and its economy is strong. I think you are trying to make connections where there are none.

I don't blame immigrants, I blame socialism. But honestly, who cares about the blame game?

I'm more interested in trying to guess the next moves of these countries. Much more fun.


However, just to let you know: The Greek girl I was dating for the past three months told me all about Greece's problems. She said the #1 reason for her country's decline was because of the massive influx of immigrants. She said that Greece was the gateway for immigrants to get into the rest of Europe.

Her words, not mine.

I looked up the demographics of Greece on Wikipedia, but they only have stats up to 2006. Even then, the figure was 93.76% Greek.

My guess is that Greek's makeup 90% of the population since 2006, judging from my Greek girlfriend's (who was from Athens, where a ton of minorities live) hostile reaction to immigration.

But you got to realize, that Greece's economy is really fucked up in ways that's hard to comprehend. There's so much corruption, it is insane. My friend said he got his driver's license by paying his driver instructor a bribe. People routinely skip paying taxes through bribes, etc.

Greece is an example of a socialist economy that fails even without immigration. They granted the Gov too much power and officials have abused it grotesquely.

(06-09-2012 09:43 PM)el mechanico Wrote:  

This guy knows the score..

Fucking hilarious. Now we're talking. Even though the guy is joking, there's a lot of truth about what he's saying.