Convalesco

Finally the transaction to wordpress went fine. I can see a few wrong dates and the tags/categories are kinda messed up. I’ll fix them the next days. For now I’m happy that I have all my posts, from all my previous blogs since 2006, in one wordpress blog.

I will be more detailed on why I moved to wordpress from mephisto and how I did it. There are some interesting points, a script and a few mysql tricks in order to bypass lame encoding issues.

As for now, I’m happy that I managed to do something that at first glance appeared a bit too complicated

When I was younger I was very rigid and inelastic in my opinions about everything regarding fraud, tax evasion or whatever had to do with tricking a system that should be equal for each and everyone.

This year in the army, convinced me that the Greek public sector is a mass of bored, lazy officers that get paid for doing nothing. People that don’t produce value and get paid by the public fund are a disease for a contemporary liberal society. The Greek army is a huge waste of public funds. The civilian that are employed by the army are even worse. They get paid, for doing absolutely nothing. Most of them, enter to the campus in the morning, take a few walks up and down, go outside the campus and do many things that has nothing to do with the campus. Then they get back inside in order to leave, because the working day has over. It’s unbelievable how many of them are like that.

Consider that in Greece, where the population is hardly above 12 million, the public sector has 1.5 million employes. In France where the population is about 64 million the public sector has 400.000 employes and they consider their public sector bloated. In short, in Greece, we are in deep shit.

The cream graduates in Greek universities, crave a place in the public sector. Working for the Greek state, means large salary since day one, no pressure, no surplus risk. The fact that people graduate doesn’t mean necessarily that all of them are good workers. In fact, most of them, will never achieve a similar salary in the private sector. Which means that they are overpaid.

With the lack of Greek’s cream youngsters, almost all of them go public, the private sector can’t grow as it should and cannot compete with the public sector or with the foreign markets. On the other hands, every social community depends largely on the private sector, mostly for the tax payment. In Greece, tax evasion is not even considered a Crime.