sugar sugar

Looks can be deceiving or sometimes looks can be revealing. Take the case of the packaging for Greek sugar. EBZ stands for Greek Sugar Manufacturing and it is a healthy and profitable company. It is also a company that is up for sale. It employs close to three hundred employees and is the sole buyer of Greek sugar beets. The packaging on the left reveals just that. White crystal sugar and a Greek flag to show that it is a 100% Greek product. So profitable in fact that last year our legislaters tried to run it out of business. Now the same company is put in the uncomfortable position of having to import sugar from other countries and simply package it here. Thus the bag of sugar on the right. Notice how there is no Greek flag and how the little girl is not holding a bag of sugar. In fact her hands are behind her back. Something like the expression "my hands are tied". It is all part of the game of belonging to the European Union. The little train that could has a caboose that travels at half the speed of the engine. It is called two tiered economics and is definetely uncomfortable for those on the lower level. We will be expected to pay to be a part of the EU for the next few years while our incomes and wages are slashed and prices are pushed through the roof with newer and meaner taxes. Maybe when we start exiting this crisis they can give the little girl on the package some shades. Rose colored. Still need to catch y'all up on PSI, CDS and partial default...