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2012-02-22 Europe

Greece Unveils The Negative Salary, And A Whole New Meaning For "Pay To Play"

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Posted by tipper 2012-02-22 11:19|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Used to be that waiters at high-end joints had to pay the owner for the right to wait tables; don't know if it's still that way. Gotta pay to play.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-02-22 11:42|| 2012-02-22 11:42|| Front Page Top

#2 How about pay to be a friking Greek Gov pol?

Posted by Water Modem 2012-02-22 13:06|| 2012-02-22 13:06|| Front Page Top

#3 These guys don't even pay their taxes, and you expect them to give back money?

Lotsa luck.

Posted by mojo 2012-02-22 14:54|| 2012-02-22 14:54|| Front Page Top

#4 In a number of Third World countries one has to pay the big boss man for your job, which then entitles you to collect graft for your 'paycheck.'

Posted by Glenmore 2012-02-22 16:53|| 2012-02-22 16:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Glenmore, many hair dressers rent a chair in the shop where they work. A lot of cabbies rent the cabs they drive, the rental fee includes the dispatch service.

It's an old and still prevalent services model, but rather .... unusual .... for white collar workers.

Posted by lotp 2012-02-22 18:56|| 2012-02-22 18:56|| Front Page Top

#6 GREEK CIVIL WAR SOON behind Door #3, Jim.

* OTOH > WAFF > {NaturalTurk.com] AUSTRIA [ + Germany]: GREECE SHOULD SELL ISOLATED OR UNINHABITED ISLANDS TO TURKEY.

Head of Austrian Chamber of Commerce Christopher Leitl repeats the call.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-02-22 21:53|| 2012-02-22 21:53|| Front Page Top

#7 WORLD POLITICAL, MILITARY HISTOIRE' suggests that not even the Superpower or Hyperpower USA is Immune from doing such a thing, espec as per its US$15.3TRILYUHN DEBT-N-RISING = RISING CHINA.

Which in turn belies the potency of 1960's GUAM TAOTAMONAS [+ decades later HUGO CHAVEZ] where the Ghosts claim the US will develop ISLAND/LAND-SINKING "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS" TO DENY USE OF STRATEGIC ISLANDS TO ITS ENEMIES.

D *** NG IT, SILLY MORIARITY THOUGHT THE ISLAND SANK BECAUSE OF AN MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE - WELL, THE ANSWER IS YES-N-NO!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-02-22 22:01|| 2012-02-22 22:01|| Front Page Top

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