In Greece, there are no real political parties, but political mafias! There are no political leaders, but political godfathers. Any MP who does not kowtow to the godfather automatically is expelled from the mafia. The two main political mafias, Pasok and Nea Democratia, have destroyed Greece and debased the Greek soul. Pasok is the most infamous political mafia on Earth!http://venitism.blogspot.com
Pasok and Nea Democratia, the two major political mafias of Greece, rely on omerta to cover up their huge corruption. Having no real alternatives to Nea Democratia and Pasok mafias, Greeks move to extreme leftist Syriza and extreme rightist Golden Dawn. Mickey Mouse extreme leftist party Syriza overturned four decades of political dominance by New Democracy and Pasok in May and June elections to become the second party in the parliament. Extreme right Golden Dawn is now the third party.
Tsipras of Syriza, a Hugo Chavez rabble-rouser, asserts the Greek government should refuse to talk to Troika. He wants to criminalize the privatization of public enterprises. He has been labeled the most dangerous man in Europe, and he has been pressuring successive governments to abandon austerity measures that underpin Greece's continued access to international aid. Tsipras is banking on the fact that eurozone treaties don't permit a country to be evicted from eurozone; so he has opted for uncompromising opposition. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Tsipras says the austerity plan leads Greece to bankruptcy, closer to a euro exit. He muses the two extra years to meet deficit-reduction goals is more rope to hang ourselves with. Nevertheless, masochist Tsipras likes to be tied up with the ropes of regulation. Tsipras notes Greece is the guinea pig of the current crisis, and what comes first is putting a stop to the country's downward path.
Golden Dawn has a new-found sense of triumph. Riding a wave of public anger at corrupt politicians, Golden Dawn has seen its popularity double in a few months. Surveys put Golden Dawn's support at twenty percent. Political analysts see no immediate halt to its meteoric ascent. Golden Dawn has the potential to get 30 percent of popular support. As long as the political system doesn't change and doesn't put an end to corruption, this phenomenon will not be stemmed.
Violent behavior by Golden Dawn members seems to boost rather than hurt the party's standing. As political corruption is at full speed and the government imposes yet more austerity on an enraged public, the collapse of the coalition of Nea Democratia and Pasok mafias remains on the political horizon. There is a possibility that Golden Dawn could become the main opposition in a snap election and Syriza the ruling party. Golden Dawn is the only institution in Greece that works. Everything else has stopped working or is partially working. Golden Dawn operates like a well-organized army unit, because the military is the best institution in any country.
Pasok and Nea Democratia mafias must be abolished now, because they have robbed the Greek treasury and the pension funds, received myriad bribes and kickbacks, exchanged sinecures for votes, spread the cancer of socialism, destroyed the Greek economy, robbed the banks at gunpoint, imposed kangaroo justice, persecuted dissident bloggers, established the impunity and immunity of Graecokleptocrats, framed a ridiculous constitution, enslaved Greece to Fourth Reich, debased the Greek soul, transformed the cradle of democracy to the cradle of kleptocracy, and deteriorated the national character of Greece. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Nea Democratia and Pasok are going belly up. They are overwhelmed by debts of 300 million euros. The debts of the two mafias far exceed the combined 37 million euros the parties received in state funding last year. Parties that receive more votes get more funding. Relying on past good results, the big political mafias have pledged future state funding as collateral for bank loans. But in the 2012 election. their support collapsed, leaving them with big loans and facing much smaller incomes. This is all about the exchange of favors. These two mafias cannot pay the debt so it's a vicious circle in which they come to depend on the banks. It creates an interdependence of politicians and banks.
At the 2012 election Pasok saw its share of the vote plunge from 43 percent to 12 percent, while Nea Democratia's share fell from 33 percent to 29 percent. Nea Democratia owes ATE bank 120 million euros and Pasok owes ATE 110 million euros. ATE had to be rescued from collapse, taken over by Piraeus Bank.
Greece provides public funding for political parties and their election campaigns. Last year the state handed out a total of 54 million euros. Each year parties receive funding equal to 0.13 percent of annual state revenue. Greece hands out three times the amount spent by Germany on political parties. Per valid vote cast, Athens spends an average 9.4 euros versus Germany's 3.1 euros.
The generous state funding in Greece is emblematic of the country's financial malaise. This self-serving mentality will not come to an end as long as Greece is funded by the solvent states in the euro zone. The fact that Greek parties get three times as much funding per vote as in Germany is part of the problem.
State funding to political parties must be adjusted to what the Greek economy can afford and not be far off from the corresponding average in the European Union. It is politically unacceptable for parties to be propped up with bank loans when many businesses are unable to obtain credit even against sound collateral.
There is in Greece a general public mistrust of the system of political financing and supervision, which may be attributed to an overall inefficient and opaque system of supervision, in which political parties are both judge and jury.
Socialistic politics leads naturally to deficits. Politicians typically insist that they intend to constrain the growth of government spending, but in reality they seldom are able to overcome the natural incentives of increasing government spending. Greek elections bring Pyrrhic victories. Graecokleptocrats are more concerned with elections than in making real spending cuts. We should keep in mind the words of Pyrrhus after the battle of Asculum: Another such victory and we will be undone.http://venitism.blogspot.com
Graecokleptocrats do not want to open the parliamentary candidates list and allow people to apply to become an MP. They do not want to open up the talent that is available for Parliament. If you believe in public service, if you want to help your party clean up politics, if you share your party's values, you cannot become a candidate in a Greek political party, unless you are a part of the mafia of that party.
Graecokleptocrats do not want to see any kind of primaries. I advocate open primaries, where everyone in a constituency can vote for the next candidate. Many countries have open primaries for many of their candidates for forthcoming elections and they are really successful. Opening up the hall and saying to anyone in the constituency – whichever party they belong to – come along and vote for the next candidate has worked fantastically well in many countries. http://venitism.blogspot.com
In repeat Greek elections, Pigsty is followed. Greeks are not even allowed to choose an MP from the list, but only a party! The party will dictate who are going to be the pseudoelected MPs, in its own arbitrary order! This is a major insult to democracy, and it encourages many secret deals. Many people are willing to sell themselves and their fans in order to get listed near the top.
Smart words are more effective than smart bombs! Mighty words of a charismatic keynote speaker can transform your people to a new dimension of organizational climate, efficiency, self-actualization, enthusiasm, belonging, and motivation. I would like very much to speak at your conference in order to explain critical points much further. venitis@gmail.com
Pasok and Nea Democratia, the two major political mafias of Greece, rely on omerta to cover up their huge corruption. Having no real alternatives to Nea Democratia and Pasok mafias, Greeks move to extreme leftist Syriza and extreme rightist Golden Dawn. Mickey Mouse extreme leftist party Syriza overturned four decades of political dominance by New Democracy and Pasok in May and June elections to become the second party in the parliament. Extreme right Golden Dawn is now the third party.
Tsipras of Syriza, a Hugo Chavez rabble-rouser, asserts the Greek government should refuse to talk to Troika. He wants to criminalize the privatization of public enterprises. He has been labeled the most dangerous man in Europe, and he has been pressuring successive governments to abandon austerity measures that underpin Greece's continued access to international aid. Tsipras is banking on the fact that eurozone treaties don't permit a country to be evicted from eurozone; so he has opted for uncompromising opposition. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Tsipras says the austerity plan leads Greece to bankruptcy, closer to a euro exit. He muses the two extra years to meet deficit-reduction goals is more rope to hang ourselves with. Nevertheless, masochist Tsipras likes to be tied up with the ropes of regulation. Tsipras notes Greece is the guinea pig of the current crisis, and what comes first is putting a stop to the country's downward path.
Golden Dawn has a new-found sense of triumph. Riding a wave of public anger at corrupt politicians, Golden Dawn has seen its popularity double in a few months. Surveys put Golden Dawn's support at twenty percent. Political analysts see no immediate halt to its meteoric ascent. Golden Dawn has the potential to get 30 percent of popular support. As long as the political system doesn't change and doesn't put an end to corruption, this phenomenon will not be stemmed.
Violent behavior by Golden Dawn members seems to boost rather than hurt the party's standing. As political corruption is at full speed and the government imposes yet more austerity on an enraged public, the collapse of the coalition of Nea Democratia and Pasok mafias remains on the political horizon. There is a possibility that Golden Dawn could become the main opposition in a snap election and Syriza the ruling party. Golden Dawn is the only institution in Greece that works. Everything else has stopped working or is partially working. Golden Dawn operates like a well-organized army unit, because the military is the best institution in any country.
Pasok and Nea Democratia mafias must be abolished now, because they have robbed the Greek treasury and the pension funds, received myriad bribes and kickbacks, exchanged sinecures for votes, spread the cancer of socialism, destroyed the Greek economy, robbed the banks at gunpoint, imposed kangaroo justice, persecuted dissident bloggers, established the impunity and immunity of Graecokleptocrats, framed a ridiculous constitution, enslaved Greece to Fourth Reich, debased the Greek soul, transformed the cradle of democracy to the cradle of kleptocracy, and deteriorated the national character of Greece. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Nea Democratia and Pasok are going belly up. They are overwhelmed by debts of 300 million euros. The debts of the two mafias far exceed the combined 37 million euros the parties received in state funding last year. Parties that receive more votes get more funding. Relying on past good results, the big political mafias have pledged future state funding as collateral for bank loans. But in the 2012 election. their support collapsed, leaving them with big loans and facing much smaller incomes. This is all about the exchange of favors. These two mafias cannot pay the debt so it's a vicious circle in which they come to depend on the banks. It creates an interdependence of politicians and banks.
At the 2012 election Pasok saw its share of the vote plunge from 43 percent to 12 percent, while Nea Democratia's share fell from 33 percent to 29 percent. Nea Democratia owes ATE bank 120 million euros and Pasok owes ATE 110 million euros. ATE had to be rescued from collapse, taken over by Piraeus Bank.
Greece provides public funding for political parties and their election campaigns. Last year the state handed out a total of 54 million euros. Each year parties receive funding equal to 0.13 percent of annual state revenue. Greece hands out three times the amount spent by Germany on political parties. Per valid vote cast, Athens spends an average 9.4 euros versus Germany's 3.1 euros.
The generous state funding in Greece is emblematic of the country's financial malaise. This self-serving mentality will not come to an end as long as Greece is funded by the solvent states in the euro zone. The fact that Greek parties get three times as much funding per vote as in Germany is part of the problem.
State funding to political parties must be adjusted to what the Greek economy can afford and not be far off from the corresponding average in the European Union. It is politically unacceptable for parties to be propped up with bank loans when many businesses are unable to obtain credit even against sound collateral.
There is in Greece a general public mistrust of the system of political financing and supervision, which may be attributed to an overall inefficient and opaque system of supervision, in which political parties are both judge and jury.
Socialistic politics leads naturally to deficits. Politicians typically insist that they intend to constrain the growth of government spending, but in reality they seldom are able to overcome the natural incentives of increasing government spending. Greek elections bring Pyrrhic victories. Graecokleptocrats are more concerned with elections than in making real spending cuts. We should keep in mind the words of Pyrrhus after the battle of Asculum: Another such victory and we will be undone.http://venitism.blogspot.com
Graecokleptocrats do not want to open the parliamentary candidates list and allow people to apply to become an MP. They do not want to open up the talent that is available for Parliament. If you believe in public service, if you want to help your party clean up politics, if you share your party's values, you cannot become a candidate in a Greek political party, unless you are a part of the mafia of that party.
Graecokleptocrats do not want to see any kind of primaries. I advocate open primaries, where everyone in a constituency can vote for the next candidate. Many countries have open primaries for many of their candidates for forthcoming elections and they are really successful. Opening up the hall and saying to anyone in the constituency – whichever party they belong to – come along and vote for the next candidate has worked fantastically well in many countries. http://venitism.blogspot.com
In repeat Greek elections, Pigsty is followed. Greeks are not even allowed to choose an MP from the list, but only a party! The party will dictate who are going to be the pseudoelected MPs, in its own arbitrary order! This is a major insult to democracy, and it encourages many secret deals. Many people are willing to sell themselves and their fans in order to get listed near the top.
Smart words are more effective than smart bombs! Mighty words of a charismatic keynote speaker can transform your people to a new dimension of organizational climate, efficiency, self-actualization, enthusiasm, belonging, and motivation. I would like very much to speak at your conference in order to explain critical points much further. venitis@gmail.com
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