



Struggling Greeks got harder hit and even more depressed on Wednesday when they realized that in 2011 they paid even more money than usual for funding the same immoral, corrupted, inefficient political system that has wrecked their lives!

While Greeks are addressing their politicians by yelling “Give back the money you stole” – since it is obvious that the huge country’s debt was created to some degree by those politicians and their political parties – the figures released by the Interior Ministry in response to a question from Democratic Alliance MP Lefteris Avgenakis, show that state funding for political parties increased by 5.2 million euros last year. The parties received 54 million euros last year compared to 48.8 million in 2010.

These are the same political parties that have caused Greece’s current tragedy. These are the same corrupt, useless and lazy politicians who keep approving new self-serving laws while cutting 500 euro pensions in order to “save” the country.

These are the politicians who have been gradually transformed from the people’s accountable servants into a bipartisan elite group acting mostly to ensure the rights of its members, many of whom inherited their parliamentary position from their parents, uncles, or even cousins. They are the people that actually created Greece’s over bloated public sector by hiring their clients/voters and giving them fat “Thank you for coming to work” bonuses.

These are the same politicians that are never held accountable in the justice system, even in cases where it is more than self-evident that there have been instances of corruption, law-breaking, abuse of power, and prodigality of public money.

And yet exhausted Greek taxpayers are forced – by law – to fund the existing parties and strengthen them, making it impossible for new parties to emerge and thus limiting their choice down to the same people who basically brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy. So one wonders what exactly are the differences between the current Greek political situation and some Eastern pseudo-democratic regimes against whom people in the Middle-East are fighting to overthrow? Apart from the free elections that keep being postponed for the “sake” of the country, and the right to freedom of speech, the differences – unfortunately – aren’t that many.



