Когда бы на нее хоть чуть была похожа

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As it turned out, what the Greeks wanted to do, once the lights went out and they were alone in the dark with a pile of borrowed money, was turn their government into a piñata stuffed with fantastic sums and give as many citizens as possible a whack at it. In just the past decade the wage bill of the Greek public sector has doubled, in real terms

Что-то это мне напоминает...

The Greek public-school system is the site of breathtaking inefficiency: one of the lowest-ranked systems in Europe, it nonetheless employs four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest-ranked, Finland’s.

И опять же...

Greeks who send their children to public schools simply assume that they will need to hire private tutors to make sure they actually learn something.

И снова здравствуйте...

The retirement age for Greek jobs classified as “arduous” is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than 600 Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous

Вы будете смеяться... Тут американцы, видимо, переплюнули греков - простодушные левантийцы не догадывались, что можно получать и зарплату, и пенсию - одновременно.