The real Greece: Thanos Tzimeros letter to Angela Merkel
June 1 2012 at 3:30 PM
Kallimachos (Login Kallimachos)
Hellenic Hoplites (Greece)
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Below is the letter Thanos Tzimeros sent to Angela Merkel which has caused an uproar in Greece. In it he describes the environment in Greece 100% accurately and perfectly. I know this because I grew up, lived, and worked there.
He says what everyone knows, but no one wants to admit to foreigners. Greece is a bordelo end of story. Read below and you'll see what I mean.
If I called Greece a failed state, it would be an understatement.
The letter of Thanos Tzimeros:
"Your Excellency,
We appreciate the efforts you make to give blood in Greece, to come out of the intensive, but, as seen every day, you will not have any effect unless first treated bleeding: the corrupt, wasteful, and hostile to any attempt to produce , state. If you have not found a Greek service asking any certificate you can not imagine neither the extent of corruption nor the extent of the absurdity of this mechanism Kafka. The latter consisting primarily of the former bill poster of the two parties eat like vultures to the tragedy of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, "the bowels of the productive potential of this country.
I want to assure you that there are two in Greece: Greece is not just the crooks politicians and bureaucrats who have made us feel ashamed for our country. Greece has a huge potential of intelligent, creative, labor and moral people who strangled each day of the party mafia. If the Mafia in Italy has transactions with government, Greece, Mafia is the state itself! All these years, politicians in collaboration with contractors for public works are also owners of SMEs, steal shamelessly EU subsidies taxes and what Greeks can not tax evasion, while outrageous offer immunity to any of their related gangsters.
What would you do if you miss the Tax Tribunal to come to your business checking and found them all flawlessly, telling you that it is impossible to return to the IRS with "empty hands" and that should definitely write fine and he can get the starter it? Yet, there are many former civil servants who have resigned because they afford to spend their entire lives in an office without doing absolutely nothing, except appointments and favors illegalities with the blessing of their political head!
There is not a sector in Greece today that reminds western country. The Education, the future of every country is shameful transaction scope as a law student of Andreas Papandreou has just been repealed, they voted for Rectors and sold their votes in exchange for the exam topics and locations for their doctoral dissertations.
Farmers all these years, with political backing, cheated the EU showing did not cultivate land and produce false to receive subsidies, while the European taxpayers' money be used instead of a transformation of culture and modernization of production became luxurious cars and parties in nightclubs in the province.
In such an orgy of lawlessness is not at all surprising that the largest illegal in Greece is the state itself by not applying the laws in the same vote. Never pay in time, leading to closure of businesses and entrepreneurs to suicide (literally: I refer to facts) does not respect the agreements do not repay the VAT (currently owes 6 billion) and if a citizen turned against him legally exterminated economic the "Justice" which needs about 20 years to complete a simple claim.
You know that there are private lands that the State has committed to expropriation in 1990 and has yet to compensate the owners, although no law which obliges them to do? Same time for years, the government appropriated the land and sell government officials on gangs urban planning and forest services in collaboration with perjurer lawyers, notaries public and political "godfathers".
It's so great revenues of corrupt public officials who heads tax offices with very "bread" after what they ate, they took a while before retiring to the auction place that anyone selling manager "poor" IRS gave the highest bidder! Typically the sale covered by reciprocal transfer.
No moral and decent man refuses to work in this environment. Thus, the public sector occupied by the armies party who, regardless of the party they belong, have common characteristics:
they argue that they are paid because the Member who appointed them, not because they have to offer services to the public
Most are uneducated and low intelligence, but without any ability and willingness to work having close contact with the power law function above and feel that what they do political friends will cover them
the most cunning of them exploit the overregulation and labyrinthine bureaucracy to erect theft gangs million from public funds while requiring less networked people money just for doing their job. This was illegal, but widespread bribe the people christened the "grigorosimo." If the employee is not paid, the case of the citizen will be left to stagnate in the vast morass of bureaucracy for years or decades!
It is obvious that the interest of politicians is to retain the status of extortion and illegal. Two cases arbitrarily and evasion are case studies. Allow me to comment further, because the essence lies in details.
Arbitrarily
In Greece was never planning. The arbitrary first built after the Civil War in the 50s mainly persecuted leftists who fled the province and trying to rebuild their lives like - like the anonymity of Athens. But then arbitrarily built by anyone, anywhere: on beaches, in forests on public land, in burned areas, or violating other properties that they could not check the site often as it was immigrants in America. Many of these serve real needs housing: the Athens of 2011 obviously can not have limits in Athens in 1950 and some redundant population should be accommodated. But never the official state did not define where and how you can build and where not. Greece is also the only EU country not yet have National. Every time someone even a politician, individually, took the initiative, as in 1983 the late Anthony Tritsis, expelled by the government. Strange? Not at all! Is arbitrary for 30 years a huge industry with many billion annual revenues - naturally black, they reaped the gangs in urban planning, prefectures, municipalities, Forestry Services, Electricity, Water, Sewer, etc. to make "blind eye".
Indeed, at arbitrary locations, and ads are mediators who would "arrange the matter" with PPC EYDAP etc! But the state itself uses arbitrary inhabitants as hostages every time you need additional revenue. According to the Act of 1983 Tritsis clearly defined and strict terms of money until then all arbitrary and arbitrarily from that date onwards, are demolished.
But since 1983 has been estimated that only 100,000 have been built Attica arbitrarily. How many were demolished? No! Every 5-6 years played the same work: that a government needs money says "as here, pay to save your homes, but from now on everything will be demolished." Even the current "modernization", supposedly the very same government did: created in April 2010 a service of arbitrary demolition, which went with the prime minister and head of all the TV crews demolished and a nightclub! That's it! Then they thought they needed money, repeated the same trick with arbitrary owners: pay not to bother you! Indeed such is the xeftila and the official state, to pay those cards will not give money, but suspended 30 years for demolition! And in all this is a decision of the Council of State which considers all arbitrarily after the 1983 law Tritsis demolished and unconstitutional laws all years from 1983 onwards compared to legitimize the fine collection! The absolute schizophrenia!
Tax evasion
Throughout the civilized world, not paying taxes because the appointed Moses the 10 commandments, but to finance public services that are supposed to serve and protect the citizen. In Greece, according to government surveys, 85% of taxes end up in illegal kickbacks and wasted appointments. A road costs 6 times longer than an equivalent of the same specification to another EU country As for what kind of services offered to citizens, I have already written enough. The tax itself is monstrously unfair, illogical and contradictory, and as not reaching all of these changes every few months (in 2011 voted for 11 tax bills!). That its tax and want can not learn all these changes, while the citizen feels like any victim of an armed gang blackmail: they must pay because the state would not hurt if you pay, knowing that their money will end up in the pockets of friends of the party and the villas of policies.
Also you have to keep money to pay the Tax Tribunal to make your control, your doctor will surgery, the employee will "serve". This evasion is both logical and moral basis, as the money that refuses to give in a Sicilian Mafia. Also, the dominant ideology imposed by PASOK, the Stalinist parties of the left, but embraced and laikizousa New Republic is that entrepreneur = enemy of the people and gain = theft. Nowhere else in Europe (at least) the business is not treated with such overt hostility.
The overregulation, the 100 operators who are responsible and should get their signatures to build a barn, officers of local authorities opposed to anything spoil their nirvana, ecologists to discover that the blades of the turbines disturb the bees (yes, I did!) and will submit an action, the courts do not seem to "friends of capital" will order a suspension of billions of investment have been away from this country. Those companies manage and operate permanent war are the incredibly absurd law (I can inform you of hundreds of laws that Ionesco and jealous!) Controllers who want the oiling, while the institutional framework that is constantly changing, do not let them know what tomorrow will dawn. Moreover, instead of the government to reward those who declare their incomes, sucks them each time you need a temporary income taxes, contributions and incredible predatory tax rates. It is characteristic of the immoral and totally stupid, macroeconomic, system of "closing" - Greek patent: because the state can neither receive nor to check every 2-3 years telling taxpayers: come to pay an amount for each year and not will check it! But this will be the last time you do this. They do it every 2-3 years!
It is obvious that those with high incomes pay withheld happy, those who pay little to hide discomfort, while those who said everything feel cheated once, and have additionally control the fear that there is no way to leave without "getting something" . Essentially, the state itself leads to tax evasion. But get caught in flagrant cases at least (megalogiatroi, megalodikigoroi, professionals, trade unionists) is very simple: just the intersection of the assets in their tax returns and opening bank accounts.
Why not decide any government? Because very hard to avoid the opening of their own accounts! So I dismantled the whole sweater corruption and entanglement! It is typical that when a reporter began filming with a hidden camera public officials of corruption, the House has acted with unprecedented speed by adopting a law which prohibits the disclosure of this material, states that the courts will not take into account and punish the journalist for unlawful disclosure of personal data! If even the most disturbed investigative journalism, the solution is murder, as happened recently with the controversial but annoying for many S. Gkiolna.
Just now, the entry of computer systems in some areas of public administration (most services do not even computerized) revealed incredible things. 4500 dead (some since 1975!) Continues to pay! Such is the indifference of D. Employees, no one wondered, even out of curiosity, what is it that his grandfather, with year of birth 1890, is still thriving and going to the bank every month to collect his pension! Now we also learned about the industry supposedly "disabled" with the participation of doctors and departmental officials arrived to give a blank drawing goalkeeper football team!
But nobody has yet raised the pensions given to unmarried daughters of officers, throughout their lives, even if they work! Neither pensions to so-called resistance of the Second World War, who then were not even born! Continue to retire: women who worked only 15 years if mothers even one child, 45arides military, 55 civil servants, because, he says, are "mature" right at the very moment when the country is sinking in debt. The Greek army has more retired generals from the army of the HPA!
Such a state "philosophy" is next to totally indifferent to the protection of public property. A few days ago, the OSE into debt, was an incredible theft: unknown ( stole six ntizelamaxes whole, each of which weighs 50 tons, wagons and track tens of meters! Thieves shred them all with the aim of selling them as scrap, but do not get wind of none!
The word punishment is absent from the vocabulary of Public Administration. Typical cases are referred to the recent report, the Inspector General of Public Administration Mr Leandros Rakintzis, an active and honest Supreme Judicial, trying to illuminate, at least, this cancer:
- Pathology General Hospital National Health System, was leaving his post, leaving illegally as a replacement, doctors with less experience. As a result, patients who died was introduced with a headache due to misdiagnosis. Penalty: No!
- City Clerk, auditor revenue and expenditure referred for a deficit of EUR 59,200,000 in the Office of Management and Loans. Penalty: No!
- Employee University, responsible for receiving oil, ordered huge posostites which stole and sold on the market. The damage caused to the University was 7,000,000 dollars! Penalty: No!
- Two controllers revenue and expenditure stole over 18 million euros between 1996 and 2001! Penalty: 6 months aside from their duties!
Why these extremely serious cases of corruption were left unpunished by the Public Services suffered the injury is obvious: more accomplices are at higher echelons of administration. Officials appear to have criminal liability is usually a "junior" member of the gang and "godfathers" are the directors, who would punish corruption!
Amazingly, Mr. Rakintzis for years submitted reports suggesting similar institutional changes to prevent corruption is fertile ground. None of the proposals are not adopted by the State! It is so deeply rooted in the Public robbers believed that "the money the state is mine" that even the latest horizontal wage reductions imposed by the Government to Pay for Public Servants resulted in an increase in salary costs in most ministries! We seem odd? Not at all: the staff made sure to outweigh the loss of revenue between the signing statements that participated in committees that worked overtime, away, etc. - Widespread in the Bay Bandits of Public Administration. Director of the Ministry of Health participated in 31 committees fee (!) Record in his report Mr Rakintzis. It was also the existence of numerous committees and subcommittees in the General Secretariat for Sports and the Ministry of Health, which had not been working ...
Indeed such is the audacity of the circuit issued certificates of participation in committees and even the days of their normal license! I did not even bother to see everyone when absent!
And why be concerned? Take example from their leaders: according to what was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Pangalos, the Public Agency AGROGI from 1998 until 2009 had only 73 employees and, suddenly, in a weekend just before elections in 2009, acquired 269 others! Who was responsible for this exofthalmi illegal? The Minister of Justice (2008) and Agrotkis Development (2009) Republic of South Sotiris Hatzigakis! In Greece there is only the head mess of fish throughout the state but the sea!
"Fortunately we do not shift and hit card, so people may come rarely in the office. Because if one day come together, not only will many remain standing, but will create a traffic jam ... and Constitution in the queue of cars waiting to be to enter the underground parking of the House will form km ... "said a former union official reports of the newspaper" To Vima ", referring to ... inexperienced colleagues in the House! Do you think that stopped the appointments to the House of relatives of Members? Wrong! By 3987/2708/22-3-2010 joint decision of Mr. and Ms. Xenogiannakopoulou chairman of the House, Mr. Philip Petsalnikos, was appointed to the House without a specific object and without notice, the typist at the Chest Diseases Hospital "Sotiria" Mr. Wisdom Andritsopoulos, now as a permanent employee of the House, with A grade. I remind you that at the time of recruitment, public opinion is shocked by the revelations about hiring spree in the House and for challenging the privileges of thousands of employees - all of them relatives of members, which, in stark contrast to public sentiment, the defend politicians relatives them. Mrs. S. Andritsopoulos is the wife of Laconia PASOK MP Mr. Leonidas Grigorakis.
Who will break this abscess? Not those who created it!
But even if he wanted none of the parties in power in Greece can not change the system. Because the administration of a country requires a Public Administration in 2000 senior government officials who will undertake to promote and enforce where necessary reforms. Neither the Public Administration nor the parties have them. So many years cronyism and corruption are serious people alienate from public life. It is no coincidence that both parties share the same staff for 20 years. What serious person agrees to deal with a jobber, discuss with foolish and vain to struggle with the most absurd bureaucratic structure of the world after the fall of the Eastern Bloc?
It's typical hospital administrator option from the current government: no one in three has no managerial experience and not one in ten relevant training. As commanders selected theologian, scholar, geologist, teacher, naval, dietician, chemist military, customs, electrician ...
And George? What makes George the international culture and visions of modernization? George Papandreou even wants to change the setting (not show any such intentions) can not. Prevents him from his own party - even the people of his surroundings! It seems honest and good intentions, but lacks his fist leader. It would be good for any politician in Sweden or Canada, but is entirely unsuited to the "put" with the pit-bull who raised the party machinery of his father. Based on those who should be forever excluded from political life - and even sent to prison.
Akis Tsochatzopoulos, the man who came close to becoming prime minister, was known throughout the business "rank" that chrimatizontan. Everyone knew - obviously knew and George Papandreou, but was "punished" by excluding from the ballot in previous elections. Such strictness! And because everyone is steeped in corruption, a "hold" each other. It is no coincidence that the kataptystos liability law ministers condoned in 5 years each offense not only of Ministers and their partners (!), Under which barred the criminal responsibilities and Akis and neodimokraton, passed by the two parties in power and was the result of collaboration of V. Venizelos, the current Finance Minister and then Minister of Justice and current Chairman of the House, Philip Petsalnikos!
Do not be surprised because there is political consensus in Greece. The explanation is simple: why the differences have never been ideological. Always, the individual opposition, opposed any position of the government just to wear out to come and turn to steal public revenues.
On the one hand, therefore, the response to any reform is the state mafia and the other speakers of the skeletons of the Stalinist Museum: The Third World members of PASOK and the Left. Half the government is against privatization, allegedly invited to apply! The union's own PASOK thought all these years of public service "field to" strike at any attempt to change the unacceptable privileges plunging the country into chaos. Strikes are illegal self-evident, but no one applies the law. The bullies of the Task Force of the Communist Party, PAME, preventing ships from sailing, prohibit employees go to work, closed roads, harbors, ancient monuments, whenever you decide without anyone bothering them.
Your Excellency,
if I were you I would say "go to hell this awful country." We, the Greeks thought and decent we are grateful that you have not got (yet) that position and continue to support us. But to be able to repay you, and to repay the accumulated debt and the inability of our political kickbacks, please: have them in one thing only: to change the state-created monster. To remove the permanence of their party, nominated customers with incredible salaries and perks (I guess you know about the "early attendance allowance" that whoever took just go on time at work!). Be required to implement rules on financial transparency and the same parties in any transaction of the public. If they do not oblige me there is no way to do this manually! Do not give them a cent more, without this condition, you will steal it!
Your Excellency,
However, Greece can thrive, as they have done thousands of Greek immigrants in countries like yours, as it has managed the Greek shipping. Once the state - gallows stop strangling those who have ideas and productive mood and vigor, Greece will flourish. Help us get there. Deny the corrupt and incompetent politicians deceive us you, humiliate us and to deprive the world of the future wealth that can provide the true Greek spirit - one that never faded applicable to this site.
Thanos Tzimeros "
http://www.network54.com/Forum/248068/thread/1338561036/last-1338564368/The+real+Greece-+Thanos+Tzimeros+letter+to+Angela+Merkel
this dude would have to be one of last remaining true greeks....
this forum is used by extremists form all sides...but atleast a greek can see the short falls...
actually all the greeks on this forum are up in arms about the corrupt system in greece...
the question is how come real greeks can see the problem and our blinded wannaby greeks defend it with deflections like it wasn't greece's fault...
