It was mentioned today that the Greek government employs TWENTY PERCENT of the population - and there was a 100-year old constitutional law that prevented the effective firing of anyone working in the government.
This is institutionalized graft and is surely a main contributing factor in the corruption.
Meh. Our governments (USA, Canada, EU) waste more, they just give it to lobbyists. At least this is a bottom-up instead of our top-down theft.
Given that the lower income you have the more of your income you spend, giving stimulus packages exclusively to the poorest members of society and letting it trickle up seems the only reasonable way to do it.
This is institutionalized graft and is surely a main contributing factor in the corruption.