COMMENTARY_ Democrats spending money like the proverbial Greek drunken sailor

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Democrats spending money like the proverbial Greek drunken sailor

Democracy and economics in Greece illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times more >

COMMENTARY


By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - - Tuesday, November 15, 2022

OPINION:


I spent the last couple of weeks in Greece, namely Athens and Crete, cruising the Aegean waters and tasting the cuisine, which is superb, almost as superb as the ancient monuments.

Frankly, the mendacity practiced on this side of the Atlantic during the recent election cycle had become too much for me to tolerate. I needed a break from the election year’s balderdash. Thus, I departed for an area of the globe where when the inhabitants say, “It’s all Greek to me,” they really mean it. No one complains. Moreover, when they say their democracy is in trouble, they know what they are talking about. Athens is the place where democracy was first tried out, and it seemed to work — at least for the first few millennia.

In modern times, however, Greek democracy came a cropper. It began with economics, as it often does. Twenty or so years ago, the Socialist party of Greece gained power and began to spend money like the proverbial inebriated sailor. Eventually, the conservative party returned to power, promising a return to the good old days of balanced budgets or at least relatively balanced budgets. Yet the conservatives had changed. Rather than throwing the spendthrift socialists out, the conservatives simply adopted the socialists’ New Economics. The conservatives thought they had learned how to stay in office for years, and they spent money like mad. They made the socialists look like cheapskates. Both parties competed with each other in giving the country away, and in no time, Greece was Europe’s basket case.

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