Reality check

Last week before the elections and all you hear is a bunch of idiots that keep talking about the solution of the Cyprus problem and I am pretty sure none of them can solve it, and add to that an unprofessional moron Yiannakis Kareklas makes Matsakis seem like a mentally sane person and you got the 2008 Cyprus Presidential elections... In reality, the Cyprus problem is a stale messed up situation that does not do any good to the people from both sides and it helps politicians manipulate the people. In reality, land in Cyprus is being sold to non Cypriots as a holiday land, foreign investment is minimal and you got an economy that heavily depends on cheap tourism and money laundering from Russia. The goverment is controlling a big chunk of the economy (CYTA, EAC, Cyprus Air) and although that has proven a disaster around the world and even the ex-soviet countries are trying to change that, in Cyprus nobody is questioning that but everybody's dream is to join one of these 'semi-goverment' organizations... Turkey has built numerous marinas and the Cyprus goverment took 10 years to award BOT contracts so rich people of the world, wait until we built our marinas and around 2012 come and moor your yacht in Cyprus. Dubai has lured away all offshore regional headquarters from Cyprus... "who cares re koumpare, others will come...", the price of real estate has skyrocketed but "sikkime re my friend, I sold the land my grandfather gave me for 300,000 pounds and now I have a Mercedes and a nice 23 year old Russian chick".
So, who from the idiots running for president has proposed skyscrapers to handle the real estate issue? Who has proposed privatization of CYTA, EAC, Cyprus Airways? Who has proposed incentives for foreign companies to come and invest in Cyprus? Who has proposed a plan for a plan to attract high end tourists? They all talk about fighting corruption but as long as the goverment controls a major part of the economy good luck getting rid of corruption. Trafic is becoming hell in every town of Cyprus but that's too dirty job for any politician to deal with, especially when they'll have to propose mass transportation system plans and screw with the powerful lobby of the taxi drivers... Let's take care of the needs of the people of Cyprus, e.g. more jobs in goverment and more Russian hookers and we got a winner... No need for a visionary leader, no need for planning, no need for timely execution of plans... opou katsi tessera tze oti arpaksi o kolos mas...