(June 21, 2011 at 9:59 pm)Ashendant Wrote:(June 21, 2011 at 3:02 pm)bozo Wrote: Well whadda you know, 12 months on and despite massive opposition from ordinary Greeks, the first wave of austerity measures has come and gone, along with widespread cuts in jobs and services and all to no avail. The country is still in financial crisis and a second bailout is being sought from the fatcats of the eurozone and IMF. any second loan will mean a second wave of austerity measures with yet more cutsi n jobs and services and hugely unpopular privitisation programme.
Once again, ordinary Greeks see through the political rhetoric and are taking to the barricades to try and stop the capitalist juggernaut of destruction.
Progressives everywhere wish them well!
It's better than the alternative, when a bank fell, we had a global economic crisis of 2008, if a country falls attached to 26 others of the biggest economic market on the planet what do you think will happen to the economy...
Austerity measures hurt ordinary people the worst. Those ordinary people are not responsible for the crisis. They do not see, quite rightly in my view, why they should suffer the pain to be imposed by capitalist moneymen.
It's always the same, caviar everday for the rich, jam tomorrow ( a tomorrow that never arrives ) for the rest.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
