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NYT Tells Greece to Abandon Socialized Medicine?
hotair.com ^ | 05/10/10 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 05/10/2010 10:30:10 AM PDT by DFG

You know, this has to be one of the strangest stories of the weekend. The New York Times, ever a champion of Obamacare during the recent debates, is reporting (from an April 30 article) on some rather compelling advice for the nation of Greece, which is currently teetering on the precipice of collapse. It’s part of a plan negotiated between officials of the European Union, the I.M.F. and the European Central Bank. What might help them? Don’t have nationalized health care… or any other industry for that matter.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010electionbias; commiecare; doublestandard; greece; nytimesbias; obamacare; socialisthealthcare; starkravingsocialism

1 posted on 05/10/2010 10:30:11 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

ROTFLMAO! I can’t wait for these scumbags to get what’s coming........


2 posted on 05/10/2010 10:31:54 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: DFG
Another reform high on the list is removing the state from the marketplace in crucial sectors like health care . . . [and] making it easier for the government to lay off some of the many thousands of public sector workers, whose low levels of productivity and high wages are a big contributor to Greece’s debt problem.

Don't be silly. As the Obama/Pelosi regime pushed socialized medicine on our country, they assured us that socialism would allow them to provide more and better medical care at a lower cost, and the NYT backed the regime on that claim. The same is true for the "Stimulus" boondoggle, which the NYT also supported. I'm quite confident that these socialist measures beloved by NYT liberals have not gone from being wonderful money-saving ideas to budget busters in the space of a few months or one year.

3 posted on 05/10/2010 10:35:13 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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Greece had also pledged to raise its value-added tax to 25 percent

Now THAT'S going to get people out spending money buying more products! But then again, does Greece make anything for people to buy?

4 posted on 05/10/2010 10:50:00 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: Pollster1

It is what elitists do. They insist on something for themselves while putting down others because they are not “worthy”.

Right now Greece is making a mockery of socialism and that upsets socialists. So naturally the socialists are going to concoct a story about how Greece didn’t do it right and there by do not deserve the glorious social policies.

It’s not a different view it is the same view from a different angle. So they are not being hypocritical.


5 posted on 05/10/2010 10:50:37 AM PDT by pennyfarmer (Your Socialist Beat our Liberal)
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To: DFG

I brought attention to this on FR last week, wondering when anyone in the mainstream media would mention it.

The IMF is helping to bail out Greece. One of the requirements by the IMF in order for Greece to get the funds is they must ‘privatize’ their gov’t run health care system (among other gov’t supported programs).

How much exposure will the main stream media give that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/business/global/01euro.html

It is about time SOMEONE starts disseminating this! LOL!


6 posted on 05/10/2010 11:11:48 AM PDT by Dudoight
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