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03 May 2010

Ponzi u Darfuru

Stanovnici Darfura su poslednja žrtva Ponzi prevare. Prevara je trajala manje od godinu dana i procenjeno je da su prevaranti uzeli do 150 miliona dolara. Lokalni guverner koji je prvo obećao da će vlada vratiti novac se predomislio pošto je kamata zabranjena po islamskom učenju. U sukobima u glavnom gradu Severnog Darfura ima nekoliko poginulih uključujući i predstavnike lokalne policije. Inicijalna reakcija građana ponajviše podseća na Albaniju 1997. Podsećanja radi tada je poginulo 2,000 ljudi a Beriša je izgubio vlast.

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Iako su mnogi od vas mrava već ovo dobili meni se priča veoma dopala. A i pošiljalac je želeo da se prosleđuje mravima koji uglavnom pohode ovaj sajt


THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different.... Two Different Versions................. Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!


MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry Kingthat the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it..
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Istorijski kontekst

Broj Atinjana koji su prilikom plaćanja poreza prijavili da imaju bazen: 324.

Broj kuća sa bazenom u Atini koji se vidi satelitskim snimkom: 16,974.

Ne bih krivio nikoga što izbegava porez na bazen, ali ovo možda pomaže da se bolje razume grčka situacija. Za razliku od razmaženih, recimo, Francuza, deo grčkih problema dolazi iz istorije sukoba, građanskog rata i vojne diktature. Tako su oni koji su izgubili rat i kasnije bili pod diktaturom osećaju obespravljenim i ubeđeni su da im određene benificije zasluženo pripadaju. To objašnjava nasilnu reakciju, štrajkove i sukobe kad god se pokuša skraćivanje budžeta, kao i potpuno bizarnu tradiciju nasilnog anarhizma u Grčkoj. Posle građanskog rata, anarhizam je tu došao kao zamena za diskreditovani komunizam. Dok je komunizam u Francuskoj i drugim zemljama zamenjen postmodernizmom ili kritičkim teorijama i skrasio se na akademiji i po pariskim kafeima, u Grčkoj je promenio ime i ostao na ulicama. Tako su sindikati stalno besni na ove sa bazenima i kad god nekome pokušate da skrešete budžet on pali molotovljeve koktele. Slično je u Italiji, i tamo se građanski rat do skoro vodio, pre desetak godina ubijen je ekonomista, savetnik ministra rada koji se suprostavio sindikatima. Ukratko, kad je komunizam diskreditovan, neki su dobili Deride i Habermase, a neki crvene brigade i anarhiste.

Ako pogledate koje zemlje su u budžetskoj krizi, Grčka, Italija, Španija i Portugal, sve su u prošlosti imale građanske ratove i/ili vojne diktature. I njihovi problemi nastali su ne pre ili za vreme diktatura - naprotiv, čisto ekonomski su režimi dobro funckonisali - nego posle, kada je počela kompenzacija gubitnika. Od tada, kad levica na vlasti, onda kompenzuje, kad je desnica, onda zbog osećaja krivice i pritisaka opet ništa ne uradi. I na kraju dođe račun.