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So How Bad Is the Public Funding in Greece? A Brothel Is now Sponsoring an Elementary School

Nov. 7, 2012 2:44pm Becket Adams

That Greece has major financial issues should come as a surprise to no one. But it’s interesting every now and then to put their problems into perspective.

For instance, because Greece’s public financing has become something of a national joke (i.e. there isn’t anything left), a school in Patra, located in the Peloponnese, recently accepted the financial sponsorship of brothel owner Soula Alevridou.

“Following an open invitation for sponsorship launched by a Patra elementary school parents association, Alevridou pledged to donate 3,000 euros to the educational facility in order to cover for a series of operational costs, a daily Peloponnesian newspaper reported,” Kathimerini reports.

“According to reports, the funds would be used to purchase a photocopier and a library for the school,” the report adds.

The important thing to consider here is the word “sponsorship.” You know what this means, right?

“[A] whorehouse is advertising its ‘services’ to children in an elementary school,” writes at Zero Hedge bluntly note.

Yep. A brothel stepped up and offered to sponsor the school. And what does the school get in return? Money for a photocopier and a library.

“This is what complete social collapse looks like,” Zero Hedge grouses. “First, the local Neo Nazi party has soared in the polls and is now the third most popular Greek party. Then, in lieu of other sources of capital, a local brothel became the head sponsor of a minor-league soccer club from Larissa.”

“Now, the same brothel which appears to have seen a substantial return on its advertising spend, has decided to branch out… straight into a local elementary school,” they add.

Final Thought: What else was the school board to do? They needed the cash and Alevridou, who is turning a tidy profit, took them up on their offer. There just simply wasn’t any public funding available.

But should this come as a surprise?

In statist countries like Greece, where the government spends more than it takes in and then tries to tax the difference, “eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

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KeithOlberdink
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 11:58am
Coming to an American town near you. FORWARD!!!

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grownup
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:42pm
This is what the progressives want for us. For the world. They are going for a complete breakdown, world wide. All at once. This is the original dream of Marx and Engels. Once accomplished, they put their people in charge. Exactly the same tactics the Islamic Brotherhood is using. When all governments are controlled by their operatives it is easy to implement one world government.

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762x51
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:36pm
Nice, where do I go to get a brothel to sponsor me?

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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:47pm
  The ladies are performing two civic duties. I also need a sponsor.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:50pm
  The women on the left need to do the same here ….but some are so damn ugly like Debbie and Michelle to name 2 ….it going to take a truckload of quaters to fund them schools so get started.
  
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stoptyranny
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:11pm
A glimpse into our not so distant future. If you think it can’t happen here then I’m sorry we woke you up… please go back to sleep.

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- mikem1969
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:34pm
  you said it, so now all you ladies, um I mean women, um, I mean sl*ts that voted for little hitler can not only get your free birth control, now you can sell yourself at the local brothel and support our schools so more kids can be brainwashed into believing that this is a good thing. America is dead and done thanks to the evil of liberals and progressives.
  
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HigherRoad
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:02pm
It’s interesting that Greece is being held up as the paragon of financial ruin because, like the United States, it once had its “Golden Age.” During that time, Greece had a booming economy and produced the finest thinkers, artists, actors, mathematicians, athletes, and military. The Greeks adored dramas and theater and worshipped the feats of their Olympic athletes. Greece, unfortunately, also had its tyrants who sought to destroy this once great civilization. America, our “golden age” is behind us as well. We are now in the hands of tyrants while many in this nation are too blinded by the razzle dazzle of hero worship to understand the peril. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” (George Santayana).

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walnutportconservative
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:57pm
God help us. Our focus needs to be on Jesus, and less on the rulers of the world.
Fear of man is sure to lay snare. Another words, if we fear man and what man can do to us, we lose sight of God and what he Will do for us. David focused on the fact that he served a mighty God, and Goliath (the big man) was coming against the “Army of the living God”. The rest is history. Focus on God not our Goliath.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:35pm
  YOUR focus may need to be on Jesus…
  MY focus may need to be on Jesus…
  
  but as soon as you start saying OUR focus needs to be on Jesus you inadvertently advocate for collective salvation and, in itself, become a Theocratic Progressive. Save as many souls as you can, but don’t fool yourself into ever believing that the U.S. government needs to become more Christian.
  
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HKS
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:37pm
Is this a great country or what, our new President-ta Obama says he’s going to take us all on a nice trip to Greece that we will never forget just for putting him back in office for another four years. I’m so proud of what the American people did.

“Remember Benghazi”

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Cavallo
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:31pm
Take a good look, ladies. This is what is in store for you when you vote with your lady parts. Your children’s education needing to be funded by the sale of those lady parts. What is the difference between one of the Brothel employees and the Wh@res in Washington? When one gives money to the Brothel employee one gets what they pay for and it isn’t forced from them at gun point.

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- blanco5
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:01pm
  Ha! Good one!
  
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Serenabit
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:20pm
It only works because the brothel is privately owned. The United States seized a brothel in Nevada (The Mustang Ranch) and was so incompetent in it’s management that it went out of business. Only in America!

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- Bruce_Almty
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:42pm
  The “workers” unionized the Mustang Ranch…what could go wrong?
  
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- ThomasUSA
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:44pm
  The only reason the Mustang Ranch went.. Um.. Belly Up… is because word got out the Government was going to put tax on condoms!
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:38pm
  Think about that for a second. The US Government is so incompetent that it couldn’t make money selling sex and yet it thinks it can run the healthcare system . . .
  
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RaydocX
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:18pm
Do they include a ‘women’s studies’ course that’s real world?
Now THAT’s what i call getting an education…
Or…
What’s the school mascot… dead eyes, a vibrator?

don’t give the Left any ideas… making kids ‘see how men subjugate women and make them earn a living with their bodies’ sounds like just the sort of sensationalist class that would be heralded as revolutionary, while depicting all women (and men) as being like a fraction of a percent…

sort of like whenever the MSM shows you titillating images of women dancing around poles to plug their ‘expose’ of the horrors of the skin trade. H Y P O C R I S Y

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toiletclogga
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:16pm
Does Greece have mentally ill Congressmen as well? I say this to the Republican House; let the Democrats raise taxes as they wish. This is the only way in which their electorate will realize what a mistake it would be. Job losses would mount, and the cost of goods would sky-rocket. But hey, the 1% would be paying their “fair share!” (please note sarcasm)

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BlackCrow
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:15pm
Problem is they have pretty well closed down all the brothels outside of Nevada. We’ll be there in a year-year and a half. Schools here are selling add space on the sides of the bus now.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:12pm
“Greece”…………..now showing in Europe. Coming to a theater near you soon!

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netmail
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:10pm
We will probably be EASING in to prostitutes funding our elementary schools by smoking a joint first.

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Ben__Franklin
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:59pm
Greece needs to ask Berry our Clown In Chief for some bones. Berry will print off a cool trillion in a heart beat and let us Americans cover it with increased inflation.

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- mbean
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:25pm
  A Quadrillion. Then it will be quintillion, then sextillion, then septillion, octillian, nonillian, decillion……
  
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Zipit
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 2:52pm
Chicos Bail Bonds!!!

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:36pm
  Buttermaker for Prez 2016!
  
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