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2000marfie (Sep 27, 2008), kingmustang (Aug 04, 2010), receiverofhell (Apr 28, 2009)
i would say:WTF?!?! Why Sakura end up living?! Naruto and Sasuke shouldn't die!!!! Why Matashi Kishimoto?!?!?!(the creator of naruto)
2000marfie (Sep 27, 2008), kingmustang (Aug 04, 2010), receiverofhell (Apr 28, 2009)
i would most likely say something along the lines of "Ok, now the series is going even more downhill than normal and it is time to completely avoid it."
If the show loses the character it's named after, then there's really almost no point in having a show, is there?
Why hello there!
I would say "Pobre Sakura" now she has no one to love but the book nook Sai.
I'd rant about it and dub it the worst anime ending ever, right after DBGT, TRIGUN, & RURONI KENSHIN!
I believe…whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you…stranger.
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Thanx Shin Ryuga!!!!
I wouldn't be a whiny bitch and I would say that it was a decent and appropriate ending though a better and even more appropriate ending would be Naruto not becoming the next Hokage and just becoming a traveling hermit like Jiraiya, Sasuke either blind or dead, and Sakura following Tsunade's footsteps except pregnant with Naruto's baby. Shikamaru or Kakashi should also be the Hokage instead.
Believe me. It works a lot better. Remember that the only reason Naruto ever wanted to become the Hokage was because of recognition and respect. Remember that Naruto really looked up to Jiraiya and if Jiraiya turned down the position of Hokage, it would make sense for Naruto to turn down the position as well even if he is capable for the job.
It's Masashi.
I personally wouldn't be surprised if Sai turns out to either be born with Uchiha genes or has Uchiha genes implanted in him in the same manner as Yamato having Hashirama's genetic code, but that's beside the point. In a scenario of Naruto and Sasuke dying, Sakura is more likely to become an old maid like Tsunade and Sai is more likely to die protecting his friends from Danzou.
Rurouni Kenshin? Canon manga ending or noncanon OVA ending?
That's why it'd make more sense for it to be the ending.
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Thanx Shin Ryuga!!!!
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To KawaiiKienna,
It just a story. I think you should e-mail to Masashi Kishimoto to ask why.
NaruHina, the cutest couple ever!


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The new documentary "Waiting for Superman" is causing a stir in the education world as filmmaker Davis Guggenheim makes the case that American public schools are failing and puts much of the blame on unions, tenure policies that protect poor teachers, and expensive, lumbering bureaucracies that are resistant to change. The film follows the plight of a handful of inner-city children trapped in failing schools by poverty and circumstance, and focuses on a handful of successful charter schools as the potential savior for these kids.
As one would expect, many public school teachers feel vilified, while many education reformers and charter schools feel validated by the film.
But regardless of your views on public schools and the fairness or unfairness of the film, there is one statistic Guggenheim cites that should alarm us all: By the year 2020, there will be a need for 123 million high-skilled, high-paid employees in the American workforce — but only 50 million Americans will be qualified for those jobs. This means businesses here will do what they already do, but to a much greater extent: Import their employees from other countries where schools have kept up with the demands of a more advanced, technologically changing world.
Guggenheim points out in his film that the United States lags behind other countries in student achievement in math and science. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Arizona's students aren't even keeping up with their peers in other states. In 2009, the average math score for Arizona fourth-graders was lower than those in 44 states and their average reading score was lower than 43 states. Average reading and math scores for Arizona eighth-graders were lower than those in 33 states.
In "Waiting for Superman," Guggenheim presents a few successful public charter schools as educational models that may hold the answers for improving all public schools. For example, Anthony, a fifth-grader in one of Washington D.C.'s most troubled neighborhoods, never knew his mom, lost his dad to drugs, and now lives with his grandparents, who fear for their grandson's safety and future if he moves up the next year to a middle school with a history of failure. So they enter Anthony into a lottery for the SEED Charter School, a public boarding school with a record of success. The message — that this boy's only hope is to let a school essentially raise him — is particularly poignant as we see Anthony choose his bunk at his new school and tape a snapshot of his dad on the wall. His grandmother is sad for him to live away from her, but overjoyed that he is being given this chance for a better life. But Guggenheim never says how much it's going to cost the taxpayers to fund Anthony's education in his new home away from home.
The price tag for school reform is important nationally and in Arizona because at a time when we need to be beefing up the quality of our schools, federal and state budget deficits are skyrocketing. When the Arizona Legislature reconvenes in January, lawmakers will be trying to dig us out of a nearly $900 million sinkhole — and education faces some steep cuts. Already, Mesa Unified School District is projecting cuts upward of $65 million next school year.
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It's an example of how education reform can't just be a matter of more money, more choices, more ways to fire teachers, more ways to eliminate bureaucracy. Public school teachers cannot save our nation's future by themselves. A vital starting point is finding a way to motivate kids and parents to truly value education, to have that desire to learn more, to be willing to do whatever it takes to be successful.
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Trends come and go, but your décor doesn't have to. Buying furniture for the long term makes a lot of sense—and you don't have to sacrifice style to do it.
You have a lot of options when you're shopping for furniture, options that range from the near-freebies on Craigslist all the way up to second-mortgage caliber sofas and chairs from the Merchandise Mart. But before you finalize that budget, you might want to consider more factors than simply how many people you want to squeeze around the dining-room table on Thanksgiving or whether you get a free HDTV included in the purchase of a bedroom suite.
Consider Where It's Made
Construction quality varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, and some consumers prefer American-made furniture. They may believe the quality is inherently higher in comparison with goods made in other parts of the world, or they may prefer U.S. furnishings for more ideological reasons. People in the latter group often choose American products because there are fewer unknowns regarding, for example, minimum wages for workers or environmental standards for factories.
Renee Degelau with Stevens Design, a high-end furniture retailer in Fitchburg, says her store works exclusively with domestic companies for both reasons: to ensure not only quality but also environmentally sound manufacturing. "We focus on the important aspects of the construction and materials used," she says. "We represent American manufacturers that focus on sustainable forestry management practices that will ensure the health and growth of our forests for future generations."
Buy Once
Consider buying high quality right from the start, says Jacob Harlow, manager at The Century House in Madison. This costs more at the outset, but you don't have to replace pieces as often—if at all—and that can save you money in the long term. This is also an eco-friendly shopping strategy since you aren't discarding entire rooms of furniture time and time again.
"Buying quality furniture that you will not have to replace every few years makes a difference in the long run," Harlow says. "You are not only reducing waste, but creating heirlooms that you can pass to your children. Buying locally also affects your furniture's carbon footprint."
Degelau agrees, noting that high-quality furniture is less likely to end up in a landfill. But just because you hold onto something for decades doesn't mean that it has to look old and stuffy. "Quality furniture can be upholstered in fresh, new, trendy fabrics to be passed down from generation to generation," she says.
Take to Trends
Trends are fun even when you've got investment-quality furniture. Incorporating new colors, styles or design motifs can make old rooms feel new again. "Today's trends are bright, vibrant colors that reflect the gorgeous colors of nature, from turquoise waters to vibrant orange blossoms," Degelau says.
Harlow says trends can be smart, too. Sometimes a trend brings along the perfect solution or perfect fit for your home. Then it makes total sense to jump on the bandwagon and snatch up the latest and greatest and incorporate that into your décor. And just because you've found the perfect gray hue for your walls doesn't mean you need to abandon it when the trend passes. " [Trends] don't have to be temporary," Harlow points out.
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It is fun to be fashionable, but you don't have to be a slave to the current styles. For instance, maybe you find gray to be too cold or institutional. Or you may think woodland themes are too cute to incorporate into your living room. Perhaps you really like oak even though all your neighbors are going with cherry or maple.
Harlow says to follow your heart more than fashion pages—especially when it comes to big-ticket items like furniture. "Regardless of how many times you hear about how fabulous that piece of furniture is, it has to speak to you or you shouldn't buy it," he says. "Quality furniture lasts a long time, so buy what you love."
Degelau says ultimately your home is, well, your home; it should reflect who you are and what you find comfortable. "The furniture you see should be the furniture you want to sit in, live in, entertain in and relax in," she says.
Make a Statement
The thing about trends is that they're everywhere. That's part of why we like them so much: The more we're exposed to things, the more familiar and desirable they become. But sometimes it makes sense to step out a little bit and select furnishings and accessories that put a unique stamp on our homes.
Pianos are a great statement piece, says Peter Reschenberg, a salesperson for Heid Music Company, which has stores in Madison and Appleton. Grand pianos, of course, pack the biggest punch, but uprights, consoles and even digital models can add warmth and entertainment, too. Plus, sophisticated new player systems that can be utilized with most any piano can bring music to any household regardless of whether you've got a pianist under your roof.
Of course, with a big-ticket item like a piano (grands at Heid start at $6,995 and go all the way up to six figures), it pays to do your research. Heid salespeople will come out to your house with wood samples and templates to make sure your selection fits your space and style.
Never Stop Shopping
Most of us don't outfit our homes in one giant shopping spree. We acquire pieces, suites, and whole rooms over time. That means we have to mix pieces from different periods and trends. Somehow it all has to work together.
And it usually does, Harlow says. "Don't feel like you have to limit yourself to buying one style of furniture or it won't match," he says. "Buy what you love and build your collection as you go … being patient until you find those right pieces to pull things together will be worthwhile in the end. You will end up with a space that is uniquely, completely yours."
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I'm trying to get some idea of what it would cost to build a set of 4 triangular wood corner shelves (we would like white colored wood to match the walls and they will have to be custom cut as the corner is unfortunately not 90 degrees). The short wall is 22 inches so the shelves would have to be somewhere between 16-20 inches on the sides touching the wall.
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Connected or free mounted? How thick? What kind of mounting brackets if they are not torsion box design. 3/4" painted poplar with $2 brackets might be $15 each. Poplar torsion box design(the free floating look) might be $50-$75 apiece. Those would be 4"-8" thick. Poplar shelves with three uprights might be a total of $200. Poplar because it is the least expensive wood that looks best when painted. |
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programs, and was recently named Radio and Records News/Talk Personality of the
Year. Best know for offering "marginal legal advice" and his take on
current events, he is described as being highly informative, hilarious, edgy
and entertaining.
In addition to his success in talk radio, Bill Handel is a renowned expert on
the legal aspects of reproductive technology and has provided legal counsel for
several hundred cases of third party reproduction. Handel serves as director of
the center for Surrogate Parenting, Inc. & Egg Donation, Inc. in Encino, California and Annapolis, Maryland, which has been helping couples become families for
nearly 25 years.
The CBS Distinguished Speaker Series has presented such renowned guests as
actor/director Leonard Nimoy; radio commentator Dennis Prager; and father of
slain Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, Dr. Judea Pearl, who is the
founder of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. A Distinguished Performance Series was
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Proceeds from this Distinguished Speaker Series event benefit Congregation Beth
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Ben Carson
An Extraordinary Life
Be inspired to overcome all odds.
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Healthcare Reform10:48
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No Wasted Knowledge5:35
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Final Questions7:19
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caught the show last week while consulting at penn state. he is an amazing man. very well done. would love to purchase a copy of the interview. thanks, j
12/30 at 11:05 AM from Indiana
My husband & I thoroughly enjoyed the interview with Ben Carson which ended just moments ago (12/30/09). Our daughter was inspired to go into the medical field many years ago as a 3rd grader when her teacher read the book "Gifted Hands" to the class (a little every day) over a period of time.
Wish he would run for president! He would have our votes for sure. Love his common sense approach to solving problems & his wisdom. Thank you for having him on your show & would appreciate if you could pass this on to him.
Sincerely, Tom & Sharon McArtor
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Ben Carson overcame all odds to become a neurosurgeon and, by age 33, director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Hear Carson discuss his work and philanthropy, his thoughts on health care reform, and about what's still on his to-do list.
For a captioned version of this interview, go to YouTube.
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T is for recognizing talent/time as gifts from God; H is for hope and honesty; I is for insight from people and good books; N is for being nice to all people; K is for recognizing knowledge as the key to living; B is for reading books; I is for developing in-depth learning skills; and G is for God, never getting too big for Him.
Ben Carson grew up in a single parent home with dire poverty, poor grades, and a horrible temper, but he dreamed of being a doctor.
Young Ben persevered, and today he is a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the John Hopkins School of Medicine. He has also directed pediatric neurosurgery at the John Hopkins Children's Center for nearly a quarter of a century.
Carson's first three books, Gifted Hands, THINK BIG, and The Big Picture provide inspiration and insight for leading a successful life. His fourth book, Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose and Live With Acceptable Risk, was released in early 2008.
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It's what we don't have that makes us special - That's the view of Poseidon Sailaway's Steve Edmondson who is working hard to promote the region to the Fly In Fly Out (FIFO) mining employee market.Mr Edmondson has been in discussions with the editor of 'Spirit - Regional Australia,' the inflight magazine for Qantas' regional carrier QantasLink which services many mining locations, in an effort to highlight the benefits of taking a break in Port Douglas."It's probably the angle we need to look at. They've got another Tropical North Queesnland special later in the year and that's the one I'll do a lot more with," he said."I'd like to think the tourism bodies would put some money in to focus on that market."Mr Edmondson said that mining resource employees could spend their break with their families and friends recouperating and relaxing in our unique environment. "Like we've seen in the growth in the wedding market we want people to come for four or five days. "Because we're out of the mining area in a geographic position, that's an ideal audience, they've got money and they've got one or two weeks off."Mr Edmondson said the spotlight should be on what Port Douglas doesn't have in an effort to attract the FIFO market."If you want to buy a washing machine or change a tire go to Cairns. This is where you feel a bit of ambience and go to chill out, otherwise you're just the same as everywhere else."What we're trying to do is identify our differences. '10 things we don't have in Port Douglas,' I quite like that."He said that the national network of flights which carry mining employees is a market which has yet to be capatised on by the State's tourism bodies. "No tourism association is doing this. We want to innovate something which we think will be useful in the bigger picture."We can't stop it (mining) or change it but we can wake up and think maybe we can turn it on its head. We can all benefit from having our regional (tourism) bodies or Tourism Queensland putting their marketing budget into that, as a channel for the domestic market. "The biggest problem we have is the domestic market and that's what we can turn around. "China won't make any difference to us. It will be just another great little independent market, they'll seek us out and they'll be welcome, but we're getting eaten alive by Cairns." Need a tradie? Check out our Trades and Services Directory.
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Councillor Terry Melchert has hit back at Douglas Shire Council's administrative branch in a developing row over the Haunting of Oak Beach and council's attitude toward small business.
A motion by Douglas Shire councillor Terry Melchert to waive a fine for the organiser of the Haunting of Oak Beach has lapsed due to a lack of support.
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Culture Warrior: A Word About Product Placement in Movies (Brought to You By Doritos)
Culture Warrior By Scott Beggs on October 25, 2011 | Comments (3)Buried deep within this sentence (Doritos are delicious) is an advertisement. Did you catch it? You probably didn't because it was so subtly subliminal, but that's exactly how product placement has worked for a century to varying degrees of success. After all, there's a thin line between using real-life products in a film to create a sense of verisimilitude and using them to promote the product in question. Where that line is drawn is up to each person. One person might see a kid reading "National Geographic" in It's a Wonderful Life and think it's quaintly appropriate while another person might find it craven and conspicuous. To the same extent, different film productions have delivered brands with means ranging from the slyness of near-imperceptibility to almost Doritos-Scorchin'-Habanero-Flavor levels of obviousness. It's far from new, and even though sold items have sneaked their way into movies for almost one hundred years, there's been an explosion in recent decades, seeing a new revenue stream for studios and a new annoyance for film fans.
I'm a big fan of survival. I figure not matter how bad life is, it's always at least a step better than being dead. As such, my self-preservation instinct is very high. While I'm not risk averse or danger shy, if I'm faced with a life or death situation, I'm choosing life and doing whatever it takes to come out on top. I naturally assume that most people are like that. Living is pretty awesome. Why then, when faced with death do characters insist on opening their mouths? Many times in movies if you just keep your trap shut you'll either slip by unnoticed or be allowed to leave. Not keeping your mouth shut is idiotic.
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Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves training friends and strangers alike in the deadly and mystical way of Jewish martial arts. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week we have Sin Nombre, Good Dick, and Israeli Martial Artists!
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HRG convinces Emile Danko, a.k.a. The Hunter, to release Tracy from Building 26, in hopes that she will lead them to Rebel. As Angela evades capture, she turns to an old friend for help. In Los Angeles, Hiro and Ando continue on their latest mission from Rebel to protect the newest hero.
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Keeping kids fit is a constant challenge in these days of computers and video games. One thing that can help: walking and biking to school.
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Thousands of men and women have committed to spend their entire weekend walking.
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German banks are about to feel pain. Haircuts bekommen. German populace will be paying for PIIGS for years vis-a-vie their horrible banking system. Spain is next...
One year hence, not richer in terms of ways by which to tackle PIGS problems but in talk over rolling debt and more aid. If there was room to manouver, the ECB wouldnt have raised rates last week or would it it? If talk of haircut is, as it was one year ago, again a mere threat by which to effect more measure, it is now an empty one.
Politicians recently have argued that it is possible for Greece to come through this and should be allowed to continue. It is a comon pitfall of polititians to equate the possible with the probable. These polititians are just talking their position.
There is a 'grand' plan to merge public hospitals in Greece. It comes with a threat not to speak against it. Or what? Your plan is stupidity at its pinnacle. A hospital's square footage is beds and operating rooms. What exactly are you going to merge? Ah..but the 'merger' concerns the fact that there has been an explosion of 'specialist clinics' within these hospitals, which have resulted in the reduction of beds per clinc. Again bullshit, the beds are the same you just created more clinics and maybe added public-private-interface staff to increase your public power and personal coffers and ensure votes. If you want to call cleaning up your how-to-destroy-a-countries-health-system mess, a merger, please at least use the right words or keep it off the news.
Of the governments recent measures, one really took the another-middle-finger-to-our-EU-partners award. Public sector workers are now allowed to leave the public sector and go to the private sector to start their own business. And get a load of this. If they fail in the private sector their positions in the public sector will be reserved for them and they can go back to them, if they so wish. So this governments solution to reducing the public sector is to expand this virus into the private sector? Get it through your thick skull. If you do not manage to fire these people, [and dont talk of unconstitutional measures, the minute you agreed to EU-ECB-IMFsupervision, your lost it] you will fail. This is 99% of your problem, i.e. the money you have wasted and continue to waste while growing voters and unionists in the last 30 years.
If you want a measure, make hiring and firing easier. Just as you fired the admisinstration of the Thessaloniki Exhibittion Venue and the head of the Alexandra public hospital in a day. Do that. More of it. It is a grave offence in public sector code of conduct, for the
situation is grave. You under the IMF, thats as right-wing as it gets these days. You can always choose to resist...but if war is diplomacy continued by other means, and going under the IMF was surrendering to a coup d'etat..
Personaly I believe that letting Greece fail will help. Foremost it will ensure that the rest of the PIGS take their own situation seriously. Letting Greeece continue with measures designed to impress rather than measures of essence, will undoubtedly allow, justifiably, the rest of the PIGS to do the same. Second the banks will have to merge. The people who have borrowed excessively will lose, and this too is just. Third any foreign commercial interests in greece concerning greece's imports will have to demand upfront payment. This will force greece which prides itslef that it is selfsustainable to a larger extend than other countries, to walk that talk. People will work becasue they need to survive, not to embezzle EU funds to buy houses and cars for themselves and their kids and dreaming for them to graduate university and gain employment in the public?! sector. Finaly, a large chunk of pensions will be decimated. This is justice at its best. Because most of them have one way or another assisted not to mention voted these polititians to stay in power all these decades.
The last prime minister of this country had the balls to call for elections when he realised what was at stake. It was his belief in democracy , not his hunger or inability for power that led him to that decision. Will the current government do that? Will it take its translation and execution job seriously? Oh I forgot..he cant even do those.
I hope I am wrong, but I feel Greece is set to devalue, and all this is for the benefit of Portugal Ireland and Spain. May you fare better..far better.
And by the by..Crisis also means the "ability to see things objectively, to judge"
Greece's creditors will not be paid back...and this they deserve for making loans to those who over spend.
America's creditors will not be paid back...and this they deserve for making loans to those who over spend.
A 110 million debt to be paid by a country with a GDP of 300?A whole generation condemned to work hard,and live a poor life for his lifetime to pay the pretenses of EU? The Greek debt is a problem of the French banks,that heavily financed Greece and closed both eyes on tricky numbers,at the moment of accepting Greece inside the eurozone in change of Athens turning in a marionet of Paris well positioned in the Balkans and on the Turkish frontier.Papandreu just called "welcome" in the home waters of Greece the barely floating DE GAULLE air carrier.This explains everything more than any statistics.Believing that the so called "European Institutions" would have accepted Greece anyway thanks to the "push"of Paris,they decided to turn their political avilability in a total acceptance of their economic arbitrarities by the Eu.This is the result.The so called "european institutions"heavily influenced by the fascigaullists committed the n-tieth crime.The burden is now hanging over the entire Eurozone.This is the morality and ethics of "Straxelles & Bruxbourg".But all this won't last for long.
Persella Ioannides, www.meritkapital.com
The way matters are unraveling make the situation harder for Greece to improve the economic environment. Just to highlight a few facts from the article: GDP in '10 fell by 4.5% instead of a forecasted 4% and in '11 it is forecasted to fall by 3.2% than the previous forecast of 2.5%. Unemployment rose from 9% in mid '09 to 14.2% in the last quarter of '10 to a forecasted 15.5% this year. The rating agencies further cut of the sovereign debt of Greece which will make the cost of raising debt from the markets to dear and will thus need to revert to more bailout funds. The financial sector of Greece is negatively affected as their bond books constitute a considerable amount of sovereign debt and thus the banks credit ratings are also affected which affects their lending powers. Moreover non-performing loans from the deterring situation of the economy will likely increase which will further hurt the financial sector. Lastly total debt is forecasted to stand at 123% of GDP end of year from 11% of GDP last year.
The current government is not to be blamed for the current state as it is faced with an extremely difficult exercise. What is definitely required is to quell the situation and boost economic activity; for this there needs to be further liquidity and time to soothe situations. As such a solution would involve continued bailout money, a light restructuring i.e. an extension of the maturity of the sovereign debt obligations and a more structured and well thought out approach from the merciless and at times unfounded decisions of the rating agencies.
The Economist has always shown an anti-peripherical view affecting countries such as Greece, Portugal or Spain (Ireland is excused because they speak English there). It is true that new values are needed, as well as a new orientation in which the God-Market does not dominate everything. Banks and big companies are ruled by greed and selfishness, and they have translated those values into modern societies, which is a real pity. If we add corruption, inefficient public services and tax evasion, the result is catastrophic. Anyway, I wonder how would The Economist analyse the same problems in England, Netherlands or Germany?. Oh no, that cannot happen in Germanic or anglo-saxon countries! How do I dare to suggest that?
Greece needs to jump at land sales. There really needs to be reform in that area. I remember a lovely old derelict school house overlooking a valley of millions of olive trees near my mothers holiday villa near Delphi. I inquired about the purchase and was told that such holdings are mired deeply in Greek bureaucratic red tape. Shame. I'm sure many foreigners would jump at the chance to purchase a little piece of Greece.
"The optimists' view of Greece is as a giant, sun-kissed development opportunity, *Florida minus the swamps*."
What a great way to put it! You forgot to add the goats, though. Therefore, I would suggest a slight revision to your article: "minus the swamps, plus the goats"...
That will make it more accurate, at least environmentally. However, it is unclear how this overall characterization relates to the sun-kissed economic development opportunities that your optimists are dreaming for Greece.
Given the analogy one is inclined to think that we can send all of Europe's retirees there. However, pushy goats will likely to be a larger issue to deal with (versus the official bird of Florida i.e. the mosquitoes). One might hope that the goats would have civilized by now munching on the grass that is growing on some of the finest artifacts of ancient Western civilization, alas that is very likely to be an unrealistic expectation...
"Rapid growth in goods exports in recent months, and a pick up in tourism ..."
Is this all that can be said about the crucial turn around in the external imbalance?
The Single Market and the Single Currency did not do away with the Balance of Payments, but rather made it all the more critical.
@ Ampoliros:
Your obsession with Greece is unhealthy.
A few months ago I made the mistake to respond to your (sarcastic as always) comments, falsely believing that you are on this forum due to genuine interest in discussing matters.
Yet, it appears that the sole purpose of your presence here is to insult Greece and its people at every opportunity.
I don't know what the real reason behind this is, but it is definitely NOT about the money "poor Germany" has to pay because of the "lazy" Greeks, it's clearly beyond that and you should have it assessed.
Even if bad Greece (and the rest of your beloved club med) magically disappeared from the map one day, how long do you think it would take for another country to get into a similar situation? 5 years, 10, 20? Then what? Because it WOULD happen sooner or later (shock-horror, even one of those perfect teutonic wonderlands could become the culprit one day, Austria has given signs in the past God forbid!).
I would expect modern Germans to be more sensitive about stereotypes, having suffered themselves because of the actions of those before them. However, the very fact that you even dare to sarcastically mention the loan occupied Greece was forced to take by the Nazis, gives your game away.
Anyway, you are always free to continue this antihellenic troll rhetoric if it makes you feel better about yourself. Below is some light reading to give you an idea of what many people in Greece and abroad are reminded of when the come accross arrogant and sarcastic Germans with illusions of superiority.
We will not owe you anything for years to come.
The main problems with the rescue plan are:
1) It is to implemented by the people who brought the country in this state.
2)It is difficult to collect the money from the people who evaded taxes
(who have exported their hard-stolen money abroad), so the government looks to get the money from those who DID pay their taxes.
3) It is easy to say "slash the public sector", but what exactly do you slash? Hospitals? Police? The overfed and grossly inefficient and corrupt judiciary-do you really expect them to rule those cuts legal? Reforming the justice sysem would solve the problems with say commissioning and bribes in hospital procurement, but this is hard to achieve when you have a supreme court that ONLY looks at technicalities and not substance. In the same way a couty may decide that a 20year old today is responsible for the murder of JFK. That
the guy was not even born then is not a reason for the Supreme Cout to overturn such a decision, as long as the judge has said that he "took all evidence into account".
4)By turning each class against another the government will reap its just rewards. A lot of libellous accusations have been raised at working people whose salaries are often quite small and certainly not responsible for the mess. Nazi propaganda would be proud of these tactics. The best known example is the special "bonus for arriving to work in time", a misnomer that referrs to bus drivers who have to do the first shift and therefore must be at work at a time where no public transportation is available, hence basically this is compensation money for getting a taxi.
5)As for international issues, Greece gets a lot of unjust heat, because due to the lack of a defense policy by the EU(what is so difficult about having a statement "an attack on one is an attack on all and we will all respond with our full resources"), especially for an EU that wants to move towards federalization. The US does have such a gurantee towards say Hawaii instead of having California companies profiting from selling defense hardware to Hawaii. This lack of support for each other even in the face of idiotic rants such as the previous post from phony macedonia, which is not even in the region and which is much smaller, both population and areawise than the real one, not to mention the historical connection is a problem for the EU as a whole: It makes no sense to homogenize legislation, currency and other stuff without a common defence policy and without a firm stance towards halluscinations like Iran calling itself republic of Europe and wanting anything "European" referring to them. Yes, this is the level of insanity of the previous post.
6) Basically all the government needs to do first is balance the budget. Borrowing more is not solving the problem.
Greece today is reliving the great economic failures of the past:
a) Austerity measures in the midst of a recession. I guess the bright people who came up with this suggestion did not bother to read about the Great Depression, and
b) Who would dispute that increasing taxes while the economy is shrinking would lead to stagflation. Bring back the 70s.
Again nobody would argue with the need to fix the Greek broken state. Its way too big, and, worse, it only exists to feed itself. It only offers token services to its citizens.
a) Education: The state pretends to offer free education, but the ministry of education rather than improving state schools, burdens private schools with red tape and micromanagement. It even tells them what prices to charge to their students. Amazing.
Higher education is even worse with dysfunctional state universities and polytechnics unable to provide educated graduates to the workforce.
b) Health: Third world treatment with first world prices. The state controlled pension funds are bust but are still allowed to run as government backed pyramid schemes. Greek workers and businesspeople are legally obliged to pay dues to funds that have no collateral other than the backing of the Greek state whose credit rating is junk. If these pension funds were private, they would have been shut down a long time ago.
c) Public Services: an oxymoron from the people who invented the word. Red tape, inefficiency, corruption, endless delays. Greek governments have struggled for the past 5 years to implement the "one stop shop" for setting up a business in Greece and they are hailing it as a major policy even though Greece was supposed to implement such a policy since 2008 by a European Directive.
d) Overstaffing to the point where the state has to keep finding office space for all the newcomers.
So yes, there is huge scope for cuts in the public sector. But firing 200 000 civil servants (out of total of 750 000) over 24 months as some people advocate will further sink the economy as these people would stop spending.
Good advice at one point is not necessarily good when the circumstances change. So before taking a dive in the sea, it is a good idea to take a deep breath. This advice is no longer good once you are underwater.
The solution has to involve keeping the economy growing even if this means allowing the deficit to stay above 10% while carrying deep restructuring that will make the Greek economy more competitive, i.e.
a) reduce the state by **imposing** structural reforms on the country. No more "please do this by the end of 2011", as the MOU [1] specifies, but rather specific legislation that must be adopted by the Greek parliament within weeks, not months. Most of the existing entrenched monopolies have to go, the half measures that the current government is trying implement are a waste of time. Legislation should be simplified and red-tape drastically reduced, rather than creating band-aids that hide complexity (such as more civil servants who act as intermediaries to the bureaucracy)
b) Public services that are particularly corrupt should be privatized or taken over. E.g. if a Greek hospital is purchasing medical supplies at three times the cost of, say, a German hospital, then let the German hospital do the purchasing for a fee and close down the purchasing department of the Greek hospital.
Loss making state-run companies should be put into receivership. Not bailed out by the Greek state. The mistake of the privatization of Olympic Airways - where all the staff became civil servants with the same salaries (so former pilots working as paper pushers are earning bigger salaries than the prime minister) - is about to be repeated with OSE, the state owned railways.
c) But at the same time, money should be directed to the economy. Rather than providing enough funding to allow Greece to roll over its debt, new money should be pumped into the Greek economy though the banking system (not government handouts) to allow the Greek private sector to recover and grow. The Greek government should not be allowed to use these funds to borrow money from the Greek banks, but should be forced to allow a minimum liquidity in the economy. Particular emphasis should be placed on helping companies who export goods or services, reducing red-tape and providing tax credits, loan guarantees, etc.
All this should be done now. The time to act is running out mainly because the existing policy is failing: the deficit is growing because the economy is shrinking, the debt is ever increasing putting further pressure on the deficit, inflation is still too high and, finally, interest rates are bound to go up sooner or later.
Vassilis Prevelakis
[1] Memorandum of understanding between Greece and the IMF and EU. This was the basis for the bailout package that provides loans to the Greek state in exchange for structural reforms and the reduction of the Greek budget deficit.
From article: "Is there a way out of the trap?"
Yes, leave the Euro.
Austerian Plan A doesn't work it paralyses!
Where's the growth going to come from with the private sector paying down debt at 5% gnp so less private demand and the state reducing money demand into the economy, net trade is taking out 3% gnp leaving the deficit at 8%.
If the deficit were allowed to do it's job supporting private spending at the previous 15%, private saving and spending/demand could be higher at say 10% and 2% respectively giving some growth and paying down private sector debt/increasing private sector net financial assets more quickly.
The more net state spending funds private dis-saving/de-leveraging the sooner the balance sheet recession will end...slash and burn simply prolongs and deepens the agony.
A land registry is essential.
However, the idea of selling off large chunks of government land to developers is an anathema. Greece depends on high quality tourism to survive. Turning the Greek coast into the Costa del Sol would be worse than bankruptcy. It would mean destroying the country's productive base, its culture, and undermining its future to pay back European banks that should have known better, without creating any of the necessary conditions for long term growth.
Such a policy would represent a betrayal of the Greek people and should be resisted at almost any cost, including bankruptcy. I.C.
Hey Economist! Too optimistic, whic is hard to believe. Until they cut the BFGPS (BIG FAT GREEK PUBLIK SEKTOR), we can't expect any real change. Why isn't the Troika all over this? Why aren't you?
Florida minus the swamps they say! How about all the black muck that is the Greek business environment? The quicksand of corruption? And the inefficient/useless tax collection mechanism? Give me a break....All is lost.
Florida minus the swamps they say! How about all the black muck that is the Greek business environment? The quicksand of corruption? And the inefficient/useless tax collection mechanism? Give me a break....All is lost.
Two little facts: 1) The Greek State was bankrupt last year, not the private sector, 2) the increase in unemployment the chart shows above came exclusively from the private sector.
This is because, this government (as all recent Greek governments from either main party) is refusing to cut the massive public payroll, as that's how they've been gaining and maintaining power.
The Greek economy is dying: the banks refuse to give even tiny loans to healthy companies (I speak from experience); the state has stopped payment not just to its suppliers (20% of small developers and contractors have shut up shop in the last year alone) but also to its legal obligations: the State has not given VAT refunds to exporters for at least 2 years now (when the VAT is running at 23%), just so they can have liquidity to ... keep the massive public payroll.
Greece had a sick public sector, an over-gorged part of the private sector that did business with the state (and overcharged everything due to political favors) and the remaining economy which is either too sickly (because of high labor costs) or too small to make a difference.
By refusing to cut the state payroll, the public sector's productivity will keep falling without a major decrease in costs, the corrupt portion of the private sector will fail anyway as the state is refusing to honor its contracts, and what's left of the economy will simply not have much demand for its services, until labor costs contract massively, i.e. after Greece has regressed to her 1980's GDP.
Greece needs a change in values and a change in government, otherwise we've lost at least a generation's worth of growth, if not two.
Catastrophic predictions by the Economist, as is always the case for the "peripheral" Eurozone countries (one can only assume the logic behind this line of articles).
In Greece perceptions about formerly "taboo" issues, like the role of the state, foreign investments, labor productivity and work ethics, are dramatically changing - something way overdue. Private companies are performing rapid reengineering to cut costs and increase productivity.
All it takes is for the government to be able to utilize its huge property (est 270 billion Euros), apply private sector management to the state (including the ability to fire employees), and fully liberate the economy, and the crisis is more or less over.
I believe Papandreou plays the "I tried to avoid it, but the lenders are forcing me" approach, to make reforms previously inconceivable. The more the public accepts them, the sooner this crisis will end, and the economy will take off.
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Londonderry students learning compassion and action in People to Paws Club
It's been more than four years since the original eight students at Londonderry South Elementary School banded together to form the People to Paws Club, which does fundraising and pet food drives and encourages animal adoptions at area animal shelters.
The club was formed in fall 2008, after then-fifth-grader Yini Liang adopted her cat, Charity, from the Salem Animal Rescue League (SARL) and approached paraprofessional Dianne Fisher about giving back. Liang has since moved on to high school but her good works continue to inspire her younger peers.
These days, the club is nearly 30 members strong, Fisher said, and the kids continue collecting much-needed items for area shelters.
"Some of our kids have been waiting since the first grade to join the club," said Fisher, noting that the club is open only to fifth-graders.
February is the club's official "Food For Furry Friends" month, and in recent weeks the kids have collected bag upon bag of dog food, cat food and treats, as well as paper towels, Dawn detergent, pillows, blankets, collars, kitty litter, toys and other much-needed items to donate to local animal rescues.
On Tuesday afternoon, the children were treated to a visit from SARL shelter manager Patricia Mack and two former shelter dogs - Missy, a Chihuahua, and Sadie, a beagle.
While Missy and Sadie have already found their permanent homes, many more are still at the shelter awaiting their perfect match, Mack said, which means the need for donated supplies remains high.
"Everything you give us is something we don't have to go out and buy," Mack told the children.
With a carload of donated goods to take back to the Salem shelter, Mack said anything the shelter can't use would be distributed to others in need through several local food pantries and at the Salem Senior Center.
"Part of our community mission is to make sure anyone who needs food is able to come out and get it," said Mack.
Many of the young club members had some adoption stories of their own to share.
Student Marissa Duragano adopted Rosie, a German shepherd mix, from SARL about four years ago.
"She's very energetic," Marissa said.
Emily Savage said her family adopted Bennie, a terrier/Chihuahua mix, about three years ago and it was love at first sight.
"She's so calm and not restless," Emily said. "She's just a really good dog."
Grace Chicko said her family rescued Bo, a very large Labrador/Newfoundland mix, two years ago.
"He was found wandering the streets of Tennessee and was so sad and so thin," Grace said. "Now he's playful and very happy with us."
Michael Ziv said his dog, Lucky, a yellow Labrador, has lived up to his name.
"He was a bit older and the people that owned him were going to bring him to a kill shelter," said Michael. "We ended up driving to Ohio to get him."
Fisher said cash donations, as well as much-needed shelter supplies, would continue to be collected for the remainder of the school year, with donations of paper towels, wet and dry pet food, 30-gallon trash bags, dog leashes, cat litter, laundry detergent, bleach, postage stamps, plain copy paper, sponges and gift certificates to local grocers most welcome.
Knowing, however, that not everyone is able to donate money or goods in the current economy, the People To Paws Club will also be collecting old newspapers for SARL, which recycles them to raise funds for the shelter.
If you'd like to help People For Paws with their efforts, donations of pet care and cleaning items as well as old newspapers may be brought directly to the front office during regular school hours. Checks are also accepted, and may be made out South School.
For more information about the Salem Animal Rescue League, visit www.sarl-nh.org.
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