NYTIMES FINALLY COVERS RIDICULOUS SOCIALIST ANTI-COMMERCE/ANTI-GROWTH BUREAUCRACY IN GREECE

THE BLOGOSPHERE COVERED THIS MONTHS AGO.


IT'S  GOOD THE  NYTIMES IS BRINGING  THE FACTS TO TH LEFT:

 It was about a year ago that Fotis I. Antonopoulos, a successful Web program designer here, decided he wanted to open an e-business selling olive products. It took him 10 months — crisscrossing the city to collect dozens of forms and stamps of approval, including proof that he was up to date on his pension contributions — before he could get started. But even that was not enough. In perhaps the strangest twist of all, his board members were required by the Health Department to submit lung X-rays — and stool samples — since this was a food company. 

“I laugh about it now,” he said. “But it wouldn’t be so funny if I didn’t have a very good job with very good pay. It would have been an absolute nightmare.”

GREECE IS JUST THE  CANARY IN THE COALMINE.

IF WE WANT TO END POVERTY, THEN WE NEED TO GROW THE ECONOMY AND THAT MEANS LESS GOVERNMENT, LESS BUREAUCRACY, LESS REGULATIONS, AND LESS  SOCIALISM.