[vbmoneyspender]

Reading the link above, you can see what is going on. The Greek bureaucracy demanding the x-rays and stool samples isn't demanding those because they expect the business people to actually provide them but because the want to make the demands to open the business so onerous that the business people will have no choice but to pay a bribe to get on with their business.

The papers often talk about how the Greeks are notorious at avoiding taxes but I have some sympathy with them on this point. The producers are the ones generating incomes that are being taxed and I can see why they would want to pay as little in taxes as possible because the more you pay, the more you become a potential target for the grifters who populate the Greek governmental bureaucracies.

[GOPJ]

People have a way of getting the government they deserve. It’s happening in Greece. It’s going to happen here..

I feel for the Greek people but they should have rejected the ‘free lunch’ offered... it’s never free.