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Monday, February 13, 2012

Will America Buy into Austerity Agenda, or fight back like Greece?

Despite all the news coverage about the civil unrest in Greece, very few details of the austerity measures proposed have been revealed. I found two, accompanied by this CBS headline:

Athens cleans up after rioters burn 45 buildings
What got the countries citizens so angry?
The drastic cuts debated in parliament include axing one in five civil service jobs over the next three years and slashing the minimum wage by more than a fifth.
It's hard to imagine what effect the minimum wage would have on the countries debt problem.

Here's even more, from NBC, that shows austerity hitting seniors:


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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2012 at 2:20 PM

    Yeah but, elected (or maybe appointed, I 'm not sure about the details of their political system) got TOSSED OUT for making a "wrong vote". Quite a few of them, I forget the number - 31 or 61, anyways, a lot of people got tossed out of their represetative positions for VOTING WRONG.
    That really blows. And I imagine that may be fueling the super-rage of the rabble too.
    It's freakin' dictatorship when you have to either vote the way the Top Guy sez or you get your ass tossed into the street.
    WHY EVEN HAVE A VOTE THEN???!!!
    So yeah if I lived in Greece I'd go out and burn some shit, you know it.

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