They sit there for years drinking coffee and chatting on the telephone and then retire at 50 with nice fat pensions…

New York Times, May 23, 2010, a typical Greek:

In Athens, Aris Iordanidis, 25, an economics graduate working in a bookstore, resents paying high taxes to finance Greece’s bloated state sector and its employees. “They sit there for years drinking coffee and chatting on the telephone and then retire at 50 with nice fat pensions,” he said. “As for us, the way things are going we’ll have to work until we’re 70.”