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[–] Oire 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Awesome question. Assuming I basically get to be temporary dictator...

First I'd officially default on all foreign debt. Any essential service that wasn't willing to play ball would be nationalized, and staffed with my lovely 24% unemployed folk. The rest of those unemployed folk would be given food and some form of housing for to do essential jobs, specifically making Greece tourism friendly as get out. Street sweeping, etc.

Once my people aren't starving and are employed as much as possible with real stuff, I'd give them state food and housing for busy work. I'm sure Greece needs trees planted, statues hand washed, and trenches dug. Once unemployment is down (I see unemployment as bad in and of itself. See the depression era US tree planting employment programs) I'd plug hard to make Greece a high tech/tourism Mecca. I don't have to play by EU rules anymore, so probably rewrite the Intellectual Property and patent law to encourage innovation. (Smaller exclusive use times, significant derivations not requiring the original patent authors sayso, just common stuff)

Similarly once the dust is settled a little, I'd focus on getting shit done cheaply. Cut loopholes, pay people 10% of any corruption they find, ditto government workers and a percentage of savings. If we can't do something on an economy budget, fuck it. We probably don't need it. (See prenatal vitamins vs ICUs for greatly premature babies.)

Hopefully in relatively short order Greece would be doing like Iceland is following their economic collapse.

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[–] flat_hedgehog [S] ago 

Hmm... I like the idea of a works act as long as if was for valuable work, i.e. brought more money in than it cost to employ the workers.