Olandreou, Merkelozi, Rodrigueras...

A popular name game in the last few years has been combining politicians' names to create a new word and suggest a possible correlation. I think it is unfortunate myself and many times in bad taste. The latest victim of this fad has been Olan, the French President, who had refused to meet with Tsipras, the leader of the Greek Left Coalition. Instead he opted to meet with Venizelos the leader of the PASOK socialist party. So Tsipras said that he hoped that Olan does not become an Olandreou and I assume he was referring to Andreas Papandreou, the man who formed PASOK in the post junta years. Andreas managed to change Greece in the early eighties with all kinds of political and social reforms that by the end of that decade PASOK had become the breeding ground for all kinds of opportunists and conmen. He may have also meant Goerge Papandreou who kept breaking promises to the Greek people. It is a very stupid negotiating tactic to promise the electorate that there will be no increase in the GST in order to pressure the Troika to back down on that demand. The GST was increased from nineteen to twenty three percent. Goerge also promised not to reduce pensions while the Troika was demanding just that. Guess what happened. The same thing happened to wages and extended pensions. Nowadays nobody is promising anything and I myself had to prepay for my newborn baby's shots and await a reimbursement in about eight months. Our family doctor, who administered the shot, is owed about  a hundred thousand euros in visitation fees from the government. We are also waiting on family alowance cheques and all reimbursements for our third child. There is no money after the haircut, the infamous PSI,  to the debt. Even at work I finished the work and will get paid whenever money shows up. Nowadays I realy wonder where that guy is. Twenty billion euros flew out of our borders in the last month...