Greece's tolerant population

In a country where every new day brings a new tax (or tariff, or whatever instrument payable by the population at large), a relatively small political elite still drives around in high-end state funded Lexus & Mercedes Benz Hybrids, keeps its reasonably good and usefully tax free salaries, and lives in & owns impressive real estate.

The fact that such politicians exist in what is termed a first-world country is worthy of repeated head-scratching.

The fact that many are ostentatious about it would be amazingly sci-fi if it weren't for the apathy of the Greek population around them.

Arguably, in any country of the first world, these people would have been the subject of various ignominies -- simplest of which is, they simply wouldn't be there!

Not in Greece.

In the 18 months since Greece signed the EU-IMF bail-out plan, the ruling Socialist government has succeeded two things:
1) To increase sovereign debt by 33%
2) To save ALL government employees jobs.


Incredible!

Which begs the politically sociological question:
What is better?
a) "Eliminate" such politicians -- as in Romania's final dealings with ex president Ceausescu;
b) Be tolerant and await for the emigration permit from Australian authorities'.