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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Greek-Americans offer little sympanty for Greece

There's a big difference between the work ethic of Greeks living in Greece and the Greeks who emigrated to the United States in search of economic opportunity.

From an article by Penelope Poulou:
"Thieves ought to be punished and there should be transparency in the state's finances," said Nikos. "Greece has to assemble a national court of justice that should investigate everybody and should find out how huge government loans of the past 30 years were spent."

"Greeks don't have money but they borrow to go on vacation," said John. "The young people spend their whole day drinking coffee. The Albanian immigrants work our fields, fix our homes and to top it, Greeks, rich and poor, they all evade taxes."
Read the full story here.

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