choro-nik wrote:
> Greek economy has registered a 25 % jump thanks to the round the clock
> duties of the country's prostitutes, according to today's "The
> Independent" and "The Guardian".
>
> Greek GDP thus officially suddenly rises by 25 percent.
>
> But is this a "rise" or an "erection" or more likely mass erection?!!!
>
> HeHeHe...
>
> Hey, that's what I call progress. Whatever has happened to "Never on
> Sunday"? They must be at it 365/24 24/7 these days.
>
> Thanks to the prostitutes Greece will now hopefully find itself well
> within the EU budgetary rules and escape chastising by the EU bodies.
>
> Hey, but ain't this what they call "cooking the books"? !!!
>
With pot and **** outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying
high
Illegal migrants provide the muscle for US black market
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Friday May 2, 2003
The Guardian
Marijuana, ****ography and illegal labour have created a hidden market
in the United States which now accounts for as much as 10% of the
American economy, according to a study. As a cash crop, marijuana is
believed to have outstripped maize, and hardcore **** revenue is equal
to Hollywood's domestic box office takings.
Despite laws that punish marijuana cultivation more strictly than murder
in some states, Americans spend more on illegal drugs than on
cigarettes. And despite official disapproval of ****ography, the US
leads the world in ex****t of explicit *** videos, according to Reefer
Madness: ***, Drugs and Cheap Labour in the American Black Market, by
Eric Schlosser.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,947880,00.html
Nothing new from choro-sick
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For instance, dodging taxes is a national s****t; Mr Babacan says
overhauling the tax system is a top priority, as is bringing the
country's huge black economy—estimates range between 30% and 50% of
GDP—into the light. Other challenges include rationalising the archaic
farming sector, which employs 30% of the labour force but accounted for
a mere 12% of GDP in 2003. A corrupt judiciary must be reformed if
embarrassingly meagre foreign direct investment and hoped-for
privatisations are to take off (in 2003, FDI per person in Turkey was
worth a mere $8, compared with $244 in Hungary and $110 in Poland). If
unemployment is not to rise above today's high 10% (in some Kurdish
regions in the south-east, it is as high as 70%), half a million new
jobs must be created every year.
http://www.economist.com/World/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3577808
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