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The industry largely consists of small family businesses that depend entirely on foreign suppliers and face tough competition from abroad.

Satire is dead. The truth is too absurd.

1 posted on 05/27/2012 6:28:01 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Face it: they are screwed.


2 posted on 05/27/2012 6:42:17 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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Maybe they would benefit from changing their revenue source. I'd buy those delicious Greek pastries from them.

If I were sure they washed their hands.

3 posted on 05/27/2012 6:45:38 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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It is a slow day in a little Greek village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers’ Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him “services” on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works.


4 posted on 05/27/2012 6:46:08 PM PDT by RobertClark (Be prepared, be polite, be professional and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

If the competition from abroad is too stiff they need to find a niche to fill.

; )


5 posted on 05/27/2012 6:48:09 PM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: martin_fierro

Humour ping.


6 posted on 05/27/2012 6:57:50 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Greece's once-thriving sex industry has become the latest victim of the debt crisis as Greeks spend less on erotic toys, pornography and titillating underwear.

My Big Fat Greek Gelding ;o)

8 posted on 05/27/2012 7:55:15 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Sounds like they are hard up.


11 posted on 05/27/2012 8:52:57 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Note: Whoever stole my copy of MS Office, I will track you down. You have my Word.)
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which broad?


12 posted on 05/27/2012 8:59:15 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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I always wondered where those beautiful beaches and rocky cliffs and azure seas as setting for foreign porn were set

Usually white stucco homes

Blonde tanned girls

Swarthy Giancarlo Gianni looking men

Always figured Capetown

Group scenes FMMM stuff


16 posted on 05/28/2012 1:18:29 AM PDT by wardaddy (the GOP are cowards)
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