Greece Will Do Everything In It's Power To Avoid Declaring Bankruptcy. Again.

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8494520&maindocimg=8493114&service=142
PM: we cannot allow Greece to go bankrupt

Isn't any government claiming it will do everything in it's power to avoid bankruptcy,
- like a pedophile claiming not to molest a child again
- like a rapist claiming not to rape again
- like a serial killer claiming not to kill again
- like a politician claiming not to accept a bribe again
- like a blind man claiming he will do everything in his power to see again

While I do believe that it is possible for any government to avoid bankruptcy, I don't believe any government will EVER do anything to avoid bankruptcy.

What is the first thing any politician does upon being elected? Payoff all the people who paid for his campaign and helped him get elected.

How does a politician manage the payoff? He passes new laws and funds new pork barrel projects targeted for all the people who helped him get elected.

Is there a way to reduce this kind of corruption?

I think one way to reduce the amount of criminal activity engaged in by politicians, is for ALL laws to have a stale (expiration) date. The stale (expiration) date would mean that the law is automatically repealed when the politician who wrote the law comes up for reelection or when he leaves office.

In this way, the evil that men do would not live beyond their time.

If a law is good, then other politicians would work to pass it again. And again. Any law that was bad, would die quickly. Even if a bad law got passed, there would be many continuing chances for it to die.

This might also keep the politicians too busy trying to keep the good laws going to have time to write and pass bad laws.