July 30, 2018
Greece's fire disaster another gift of socialism
By Monica Showalter
The terrible wildfire in Greece, which destroyed the seaside village of Mati and killed, at last count, 91 people, was all the more awful because it need never have happened.
Unfortunately, it did, and it was a problem of not having free markets. The New York Times, in an op-ed from a Greek journalist who knows the place, points out that scores of unpermitted buildings and a non-working property registry, along with the corruption that makes its home in any such setting, were at fault.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/greeces_fire_disaster_another_gift_of_socialism.html#ixzz5MlQIcnGd