Brickbat: Greek Style
Fotis I. Antonopoulos thought that exporting authentic olive products from Greece would make a nifty online business. But it took him 10 months to get all of the permits and paperwork he needed just to open his firm. He says the strangest requirement may have come from the Athens health department, which wanted lung x-rays and stool samples from each of his board members because he'd be selling food products.
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Lung x-rays? That's odd.
Can't have anyone with tuberculosis involved in financing the export of food, apparently.
But let's not forget that deregulation caused this crisis.
Austerity is finally paying off!
Leave the stool samples on the front steps of the Athens Health Depart.
In a flaming bag.
Sounds like a prety good plan to me dude. Wow.
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Wait, the NY Times is critical of regulations and useless bureaucracy that harm entrepreneurs?
Oh wait, this is in some backwards country. That stuff would never happen in that free market bastion ruled by the benevolent Bloomberg.