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joseaca I am glad you talk in civilized way and not with insults and racism(quite uncommon on youtube haha). I believe however you should make a research on the other side of the true events of what's going on and not the narrative the media always portray things and all the myths they make up against us according to their interests and who have every interest to cause hatred against a people in order to not see the root of the problem. For example a very common myth is what they claim about the ''rich Greek early pensioner'' , in reality however 44.8% of Greek pensioners live under the poverty line, 89.4% are over 61 years, while the average waiting period from retirement before a pension payment is made is 4 years
. Also even before the crisis though I do not deny that there were many corruptions in it(like in every country), we had one of the SMALLEST PUBLIC SECTORS IN EUROPE and they were keeping up the economy while the public workers were working more hours than any others in the world. Again I do not deny corruption existed, I do not deny tax evasion existed, but these things FREAKING EXIST everywhere(Britain is number 1 in tax exasion even today) and they are nothing but a small piece of the whole big cake and a pure disorientation from the actual root of the problem. For the truth is no matter how corrupted a common people can be, they can never eat as many as the the politicians and the economic elite can. The worldwide credit financial system we live in has enslaved all nation states in the world, especially in europe, everyone is indebted to private banks, central banks are all private and the fact that cash is being printed automatically INDEBTS the states. Just look on the world debt map dude, the US has 19 trillions of dollars for debt, France has 2.5 trillion debt and Belgium's public debt is about 105% of GDP. All the states in the world have 84 trillion debt together to PRIVATE BANKS, and Greece hasn't even reached 500 billions of euros in debt and you actually believe the Greek people are the root of the problem and that the way Greece manages economy has anything to do with what we are now??
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joseaca @joseaca The main wage of the Greek public sector is about 1050-1100 euros per month(without the taxes which reduce it at least 30%) and the pensions in them depend on how many years you work. If you were a public worker with 1100 euros wage and worked for 25 years, your pension will be about 611 euros, if you worked for 41 years about 849.
If you are in high ranking position(such as a general of the defence, a director or a manager of public company ) the main wage is about 1500
euros, and if you have worked for 25 years your pension is about 694 euros, if you have worked for 41 about 1000 euros.
All these in the public sector, which is less than 5% of the population(about 560.000 public workers out of 10.000.000 million population), I am not even talking about the private sector in which the situation is tragic, with the lowest wage WITHOUT TAXES being about 740 euros, while before the crisis it was about 960. Before the crisis it was 40% more than the above, the main wage in the public sector was about 1500-1600 euros per month(a little more than the average lowest wage in the private sector of Germany). All these with GDP of Greece even now after the crisis being about 200 billions of euros. Now do the math, and if you think such wages can even in the slightest degree be comparable to to the German ones, I will facepalm quite hard.
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joseaca ''uhh yes it does, thats how the state funds itself, via taxes, now you can argue its necessary and so on, but the fact remains, its funded from your pocket
' The state funds itself from 2 factors: 1)Material production public services(such as public oil production companies, electricity, water and so on). 2) Taxxing private businesses. Now as long as Big businesses(private big banks, industries, cartels, ship-owners and so on) tax-evade lawfully and even small businesses do tax-evade, from whom does the state derive this money?? That's right from cutting money from material production public service workers, who will pay both the tax-evasions of the private sector as well as the parts of the public sector that do not economically benefit a state but are still necessary(such as hospitals, military, teachers and so on). Sell these material productive public services and the economy of a state is dead.... ''i actually agree with privatization because of a simple fact, the public sector its inherently far less efficient than the private sector, it has no real incentive to be productive, a public company cant go bankrupt the government will simply pour more money into it
'' That's a neoliberal myth that can be debunked quite easily: See the most productive nations of the EU, such as Norway or Sweden. These nations have the HIGHEST PUBLIC SECTOR in Europe, and are the most productive at the same time. ''money that comes from you'' Uhm you do realise that the fact that you even speak of money or currency of any kind you owe it to state laws don't you?? ''but it seems this same law also raised teacher pensions to 50% of their base wage, is this correct?'' Not all teachers only for writers, poets or artists who have been distinguished for their works and have been recognised as such. Google translate sucks on all levels in translating...
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joseaca ''every public worker's wage comes from your pocket''' No it doesn't, it depends on what kind of public service you mean by that. If you mean public services that produce material supplies(such as electricity, water, phones and so on) from these public workers the whole state's economy depends, and it is from these public workers that the other public non-material services are being paid(such as teachers, military, police, doctors etc) as well as all the taxes for paying bank debts along with the taxes of the rich class(such as ship-owners) or much less the low class that tax-evade. The IMF however forced the goverment in 2010 to privatize the first kind of public services, and this is the main reason the incomes of the state decreased even more and the debt increased from 200 billions to 500 billions in the last 9 years. For now we have to borrow both to pay the debts to the banks as well as to pay the private investors that now own our former public services. Nonetheless Germany even before the crisis had much larger public sector than Greece and the wages of German public workers are about 4000-5000 or even more euros per month. ''''obviously dating back to 2007, and according to this, a greek pensioner could earn up to around 90% of the average wage in pensions, this compared to germany's 40%, that doesnt look sustainable, can you confirm?
'' This law(3620/2007) for the 90% of the wage in pension was voted in 2007 ONLY FOR pensioned men who had suffered from war(such as warrant officers, soldiers or generals) or who had been seriously damaged in health because of their services, not to any Greek pensioneer. Whoever wrote this is making serious propaganda.
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