Last week, there were riots in Greece. I thought it might be a good time to resurrect my ongoing character, Greco the Mob Boss... So here he is, in today's new column in Illinois Review, trying to make his rounds around Athens and running smack into a nationwide general strike.
As chanting and molotov cocktails pierce the air, our mob boss learns a few lessons about economics, in "Greco Strikes a Match," here:
1 posted on
09/29/2012 12:02:31 PM PDT by
jfd1776
To: jfd1776
How do you shake people down when the people don’t have anything left to be shaken out of them?
The American tax-payer feels very much the same.
2 posted on
09/29/2012 12:09:13 PM PDT by
newheart
(At what point does policy become treason?)
To: jfd1776
We demand the government spend money that does not exist!!
3 posted on
09/29/2012 12:13:39 PM PDT by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: jfd1776
I really enjoyed reading this. Greco is quite a character!
To: jfd1776
Thank you. That was very clever and very educational read. I look forward to acquainting myself in greater detail with Mr. Greco. He sound like quite a character...
6 posted on
09/29/2012 1:40:55 PM PDT by
Toirdhealbheach Beucail
(Am fear nach gheibh na h-airm 'n am na sith, cha bith iad aige 'nam a chogaidh)
To: jfd1776
I was in Greece this year a few months ago.
Greece is California.
7 posted on
09/29/2012 1:58:01 PM PDT by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: jfd1776
8 posted on
09/29/2012 3:20:02 PM PDT by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson