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In reply to the discussion: Nigel Farage, "I think we're heading for a revolution of some kind in Greece" [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)21. If you are a single woman who had a parent who worked for the government...
You get *their* pension after they die.
Until you die.
Totally culturally normal to them to pension children, because, you know, an unmarried woman can't be expected to work.
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Nigel Farage, "I think we're heading for a revolution of some kind in Greece" [View all]
stockholmer
Feb 2012
OP
Frankly I have little sympathy for the Greeks because of their tax code and widespread tax fraud
grantcart
Feb 2012
#29
stupid? how dare you! My country (Sweden) is far from stupid, & if you think a one world government
stockholmer
Feb 2012
#11
Europeans has gotten over "nationalistic sentiments" to a much greater degree than
pampango
Feb 2012
#27
"...first and foremost, that they get reelected -- but now they are doing the opposite of this..."
unkachuck
Feb 2012
#9
Greece produce very little Military good themselves, they buy it from the rest of the Euro zone
happyslug
Feb 2012
#30
in regards to that 3% number (which, btw, is not the chief focus, IMHO, of the RT piece)
stockholmer
Feb 2012
#39
This is the trouble with putting an MEP's opinion as 'Latest Breaking News'
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2012
#41