Ted Rall for July 08, 2015
Transcript:
Man 1: Why should we cut them a break? Their government should listen to live within its means! They're deep in debt, but they keep spending and borrowing, spending and borrowing! Plus they're hopelessly corrupt! They're owed $300 billion in taxes, mostly because rich people cheat and hide their cash! Man 2: But the U.S. could drag Europe's economy down with it... Woman: Screw 'em! No more enabling their lazy western lifestyles!!
@Ted Rall
When you Tweeted this strip, you claimed the Greeks work more hours than the Germans or we do. This is incorrect.
It is true the Greeks work the most hours in all of Europe, but you might notice we’re not Europeans. Greece is also an industrialized nation, and guess which industrialized nation works the most hours per week (estimated between 47 to 49 to Greece’s 42), takes the fewest and shortest vacations, gets the least maternity leave and has the fewest sick or family/bereavement leave days of them all.
Yeah, that would be us, as in the US.