More protests in Greece as the situation worsens

[sailingaway]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/day-of-rage-in-greece-as-more-stringent-cuts-loom-8180808.html

[Occam's Banana]

Coming soon to a country near you ... ?

[ShaneEnochs]

I don't really understand the situation there. Is this socialism backfiring, or more or less banks screwing countries over?

[ClydeCoulter]

I talked to some of them yesterday. It was hard to carry on a conversation on the livestream, scrolled too fast.
One of them was a history teacher, said he was trying to learn portuguese and moving to brazil so that he could get a job.

[amonasro]

I don't really understand the situation there. Is this socialism backfiring, or more or less banks screwing countries over?

Seems to me it's a lot of both.

[Occam's Banana]

I don't really understand the situation there. Is this socialism backfiring, or more or less banks screwing countries over?
Yes.

[AuH20]

I don't really understand the situation there. Is this socialism backfiring, or more or less banks screwing countries over?

The banks let them indulge in all their socialist fantasies for several years and now it's time to pay the bill so to speak. Any objective person really can't feel bad for the Greeks. Just like I don't expect the rest of the world to feel bad for Americans when they lose their first world status.

[AuH20]

"We don't owe [money] to anyone, bring back what's stolen," was one of the chants that could be heard in Athens, echoing the violent resentment of many Greeks against politicians and their purported embroilment in tax evasion and corruption scandals.

Delusional and economically ignorant?? Don't they GET IT? Don't sell your soul to the devil AKA the bankers & the EU, and then you can't complain.

[FindLiberty]

I don't really understand the situation there. Is this socialism backfiring, or more or less banks screwing countries over?

IDK, but the entire "fiat money supported" package of smoke and mirror illusions, lies, false promises, laws and wars dreamed up by our elite political planners and spewed out by the skools and MSM all seem to be failing to control and satisfy "the great unwashed masses" these days. It seems inevitable that this will eventually also come (home?) to the streets of Amerika. :( I'm not looking forward to seeing it happen here. In fact, I momentarily hoped Ron Paul could actually save us from this. The psychopaths are in charge and doing quite well these days.

Note: The following clip is NOT Ron Paul talking, or expressing peaceful Constitutional/Libertarian solutions!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu_30-8ZlmQ

[angelatc]

"We don't owe [money] to anyone, bring back what's stolen," was one of the chants that could be heard in Athens, echoing the violent resentment of many Greeks against politicians and their purported embroilment in tax evasion and corruption scandals.

It was standard policy to vote for those who would steal on your behalf, wasn't it? Now you're shocked to find out they were theives? Color me not sympathetic.

[ClydeCoulter]

It's really too bad for them, cause they fell for the shit. Stupid bastards should have educated themselves from birth through osmosis or something. Fuck heads didn't understand that inflation would eat everything they worked for, suckers, fuck 'em /sarcasm

edit: And goldman-sachs was their best friend /sarcasm