One of the cherished talking points of the Right is how we are turning into Greece.
It has become so endemic that it has filtered down to the letters to the editor of The Arizona Republic, surely one of the lowest rings of the living Hell that is Right Wing Looneydom.
The hysterical rant goes something like this:
Soon we will be bankrupt--just like Greece!
And it will be because of the evil unions--just like Greece!
And all the entitlements of our welfare state--just like Greece!
And the lazy workers--just like Greece!
And the overall corruption of "socialism"--just like Greece!
I'm sure if there were some way to claim that Greece had a "black, anti-colonial Kenyan, Muslim" President, they'd do that too.
And I suppose if the Greeks had the world's largest economy, largest military, the world's safest currency, and their own central bank with the ability to print their own money, and set their own interest rates--we would be "just like Greece".
But they don't.
So anyone who tells you that we're in danger of becoming "just like Greece" is a fucking idiot. And you can quote me on that.
Of course, there is one way that we are exactly like Greece:
Many of the wealthiest Greeks have done everything they possibly can--legally and otherwise--to avoid paying taxes.
Remind you of anyone?
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