Greek 2 Me

OK.

So, elections are tomorrow.

Who cares?

Oh sure, I can hear your protests and howls of rage that someone dare question the importance of the democratic process; but enough is enough, already!

This past week leading up to the elections has once again demonstrated that the problems we face as a society here in Greece are certainly not going to be cured by the elected officials on this Sunday's ballot... regardless of your political idealogy.

The flooding streams, collapsed bridges and the striking teachers, are not necessarily political problems. Therefore, real solutions - NOT- political ones, need to be offered.

How about this Mr. Karamanlis?

Give the teachers a week to return to their jobs, or, face the prospect of losing them.

That's right.

Introduce a measure to be debated by the parliament to allow teachers to be fired. In other words, make teachers sign a no strike contract in order to have their precious, cushy, civil-servant jobs. It's time more was demanded from them, not less.

The time has come to call things by their real, not imaginary, names.

If teachers don't want to work - it's their privelege, by the way, to not want to work under the current conditions...

Fire them.

There are plenty - and I do mean PLENTY - of unemployed, qualified teachers who would gladly and immediately replace them within the week.

If you need someone who has hired and fired teachers to help you do this job. I volunteer my services for a week to help get it organized and done. If the department of education can't find replacements in such a short time, then you need to fire them as well.

This nonsense of the few holding the many at ransom needs to end.

If it doesn't we'll soon be sending our kids to a three or four hour "free" education and then transporting them to a frontistirio to actually learn what they need to know.

Oh wait, we already do that, don't we?


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