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theatlantic: Europe Agrees: Greece Is the Laziest, Most Incompetent Nation in the EU Greece is the hardest-working country in the EU! According to Greece. And only Greece.  According to Britain, Germany, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic, it’s the laziest country in Europe. Meanwhile, Germany is the most respected EU country, according to the Pew Global report,European Unity on the Rocks. And Greece appears to be living in a bizarro universe where 78% of its respondents held negative views of Germany. Three in five Greeks said their country had Europe’s hardest working citizens. Half of the rest of the respondents from the other seven nations said Greece had the laziest workforce in Europe. Greece actually works harder than many. In terms of negatives, Italy comes first with 6.5 votes (mostly corruption), followed by Greece with 6 votes (mostly laziness). In Greece Italy is laziest, while in Italy it’s Romania. How many Greeks went to Italy ever, and how many Italians went to Romania?! As for Germany they prove that old adage in The Mouse that Roared (1959): Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: We must declare war on the United States. Benter: But we can never win such a war! Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: Of course not, but we could win the peace. I’ve given this a lot of thought gentlemen and I’m perfectly positive that I am right. You must remember, the Americans are a very strange people. Whereas other countries rarely forgive anything, the Americans forgive anything. There isn’t a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated. 

theatlantic:

Europe Agrees: Greece Is the Laziest, Most Incompetent Nation in the EU

Greece is the hardest-working country in the EU! According to Greece. And only Greece. 

According to Britain, Germany, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic, it’s the laziest country in Europe.

Meanwhile, Germany is the most respected EU country, according to the Pew Global report,European Unity on the Rocks. And Greece appears to be living in a bizarro universe where 78% of its respondents held negative views of Germany. Three in five Greeks said their country had Europe’s hardest working citizens. Half of the rest of the respondents from the other seven nations said Greece had the laziest workforce in Europe.

Greece actually works harder than many.

In terms of negatives, Italy comes first with 6.5 votes (mostly corruption), followed by Greece with 6 votes (mostly laziness). In Greece Italy is laziest, while in Italy it’s Romania. How many Greeks went to Italy ever, and how many Italians went to Romania?!

As for Germany they prove that old adage in The Mouse that Roared (1959):

Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: We must declare war on the United States. 
Benter: But we can never win such a war! 
Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy: Of course not, but we could win the peace. I’ve given this a lot of thought gentlemen and I’m perfectly positive that I am right. You must remember, the Americans are a very strange people. Whereas other countries rarely forgive anything, the Americans forgive anything. There isn’t a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated. 

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American stocks have doubled in price since the market hit bottom three years ago. But trading in the United States stock market has not only failed to recover since the 2008 financial crash, it has continued to fall. In April, average daily trades stood at 6.5 billion, about half their peak four years ago. By comparison, after the market busts of 1987 and 2001, trading recovered within two years. In fact, going back to 1960, trading had never declined for three consecutive years, let alone four and counting.
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  • American stocks have doubled in price since the market hit bottom three years ago. But trading in the United States stock market has not only failed to recover since the 2008 financial crash, it has continued to fall. In April, average daily trades stood at 6.5 billion, about half their peak four years ago. By comparison, after the market busts of 1987 and 2001, trading recovered within two years. In fact, going back to 1960, trading had never declined for three consecutive years, let alone four and counting.
  • Investors haven’t just hunkered down, they have headed for the exits. Since the start of 2008, domestic stock mutual funds, a common way for individuals to invest, were drained of more than $400 billion, compared with an inflow of $52 billion in the four years before that.
  • There is also the feeling that the market has become increasingly unfair to investors. For example, Mr. Popper also reported recently on rebates to brokers from stock exchanges. In general, brokers are required to find the best prices for clients who pay them to buy and sell shares. But with the nation’s 13 exchanges now paying brokers for sending them business, brokers may have an incentive to search for the biggest rebate rather than the best price. A new study has estimated that rebates could be costing mutual funds, pension funds and individual investors as much as $5 billion a year.
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Mario Lambert, a highly regarded local homicide detective was found guilty Friday of fraudulently using a police database. Police started investigating in 2009 after an informant told them someone with ties to organized crime was allegedly able to obtain information from the police database through an officer. (via ts) Judge Jean-Pierre Dumais said he didn’t believe the argument. “The accused knew, despite the rules, that he shouldn’t have used the information from (the database) for personal reasons,” the judge wrote in his decision. “He did the opposite … he revealed confidential information to non-authorized third parties.” Everyone consulted by QMI Agency said it is unlikely Lambert will be imprisoned, even though he could be sentenced to up to 10 years. “We don’t put a policeman like that in prison,” said a source outside the courtroom. “He has already received his sentence.” In other words, he’ll be exonerated on appeal.

Mario Lambert, a highly regarded local homicide detective was found guilty Friday of fraudulently using a police database. Police started investigating in 2009 after an informant told them someone with ties to organized crime was allegedly able to obtain information from the police database through an officer. (via ts)

  • Judge Jean-Pierre Dumais said he didn’t believe the argument.
  • “The accused knew, despite the rules, that he shouldn’t have used the information from (the database) for personal reasons,” the judge wrote in his decision. “He did the opposite … he revealed confidential information to non-authorized third parties.”
  • Everyone consulted by QMI Agency said it is unlikely Lambert will be imprisoned, even though he could be sentenced to up to 10 years.
  • “We don’t put a policeman like that in prison,” said a source outside the courtroom. “He has already received his sentence.”

In other words, he’ll be exonerated on appeal.

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