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May 10, 2010
NYT: Greece's Economic Salvation Can Only Come By Privatizing Health Care and Laying Off Thousands Of Unneeded Government WorkersReally? What makes Greece so damn lucky? Lucky in the sense that they can benefit from such changes, whereas we in the United States are apparently required to do the precise opposite. Actually, the NYT isn't endorsing this plan (as the linked analysis at Hot Air suggests); it's just reporting, neutrally, that this is the austerity plan forced on Greece by the IMF, EU, and European Central Banks. Still: I'm sure the NYT doesn't notice the irony that the program it urges for America is the exact program which must be undone in Greece to keep the country from going bankrupt. As unions denounced the cost-cutting measures and pledged to take to the streets over the weekend and go on strike on Wednesday, Prime Minister George Papandreou said Greece must quickly adopt the international aid plan. “Today, the top priority is the survival of the nation,” he told Parliament on Friday. “This is the red line.” In America, they're not constitutionally guaranteed per se, but they are politically guaranteed -- one party is dedicated singlemindedly to expanding the government workforce and jacking up its already-generous compensation. Another reform high on the list is removing the state from the marketplace in crucial sectors like health care, transportation and energy and allowing private investment. Economists say that the liberalization of trucking routes — where a trucking license can cost up to $90,000 — and the health care industry would help bring down prices in these areas, which are among the highest in Europe. Yes, a lot of "raise taxes" stuff in there too, but that's because Greece has gotten so far down the road of guaranteeing a bunch of pricey while avoiding raising the tax rates, preferring to borrow and spend, so that the public is never alerted to the true costs of these programs until it's too late, and the country must accept higher tax rates or go bankrupt. Sound familiar? Seems to me there's a very cool cat with nice pecs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who has a similar agenda. Hide the costs of your programs in order to get them passed, and then, when it's politically impossible to restrain those costs, tell the country you are sadly forced to raise taxes due to circumstances beyond your control. Can't happen here? Reason argues it already has happened here, at least in the once-Golden State of California. California's longterm population-loss trend has reportedly turned around slightly in the last few months, and Greece will no doubt bring in a new haul of tourists this summer, proving the claim that self-satisfied Californians love to make whenever their state is compared unfavorably with Texas: The weather is really nice. And people still haven't managed to screw up the weather. Thanks to Larissa and StarChamberMaid.
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