Greek workers use May Day to protest against reforms and austerity - May 1, 2014 - At a protest organised by the Communist Party outside the parliament building in central Athens, unemployed building worker Albert Disai said the government’s labour law changes have devastated workers’ rights: “They held out the hope that with these measures things would get better, but the only thing I see is darkness.” The Greek Communist Party Secretary General Dimitris Koutsoubas railed against the government and Brussels saying: “What we need right now is a strong opposition, that will open the road (for workers’ rights) and that can smash the monopolies of Europe, and allow the people’s voice to rule.”
in re: socialist/communist protests against “austerity”
you do realize what the net result is, right ?
I mean, from the financial elites’ point of view.
not cutting government spending requires one of two things: a) higher taxes or b) more borrowing.
a) higher taxes - taxes are for the “little people”, and the elites love higher taxes for the sheeple.
b) more borrowing - the financial elites benefit, it’s more business for their banking/capital markets monopoly. And more of a lever of control over government. It’s government spending “out in front of” tax revenue.
No wonder financial elites want all the sheeple enrolled in socialism/communism.
The elites LOVE government spending. Desperately. They want trillions spent on weapons. Social spending. Research. Bridges. Space programs. Anything.
Some of the social spending goes to a few of the lazy sheeple. They turn right around and spend it on housing, food, clothing, cars, etc. That’s all revenue for businesses, and most of the big ones are controlled by the financial elites.
Most folks in America don’t realize that socialist countries have a few large monopolistic companies whose boards of directors have continuously been very tightly controlled, and those few companies are the bulk of the manufacturing, transportation, financial services capital markets, etc., of said socialist countries. The financial elites get a piece of everything that passes throught the government (government pays interest on its debt), and they sell tons of products and services to it (trains, building projects, etc.).
Take “healthcare” for example. The idea is to drive down what people are paid, like doctors, etc., and then, all the buildings and equipment - sell/lease all that to the government at a profit and provide financing to the government so it can make the purchases. These arrangements are complex, few people have any idea what’s really going on in dollars and cents.
Think if you want to sell $10 million xray machines to hospitals. If they’re normal businesses where customers pay cash for services rendered, they worry about there being a cost/benefit that made sense for them, so your sales are limited by the _hospitals’_ sales.
If you can get tax or insurance dollars to pay for your xray machines, that’s a much bigger potential marketplace, since your machines no longer have to create a net profit for the customer. The more they spend, the more they can justify higher taxes or higher insurance premiums to be extracted from the sheeple.
Instead of companies all competing to try to convince individual people to buy from them, monopolies are all viciously slurping at the government/regulatory trough, competing for money mandated/extracted from their customers.
the socialist agitaters (lol) don’t realize (or they do ?) that they’re agitatin’ on behalf of the elites’ enterprises. If they lose, and there’s austerity, they pay more and get less out of government. If they win, and there’s no austerity, they pay more and temporarily get what they’ve been getting.
Since the politicians belong to the elites, and are left wing, and the elites control the leadership of the “socialist” movement, the movement/protests are not going to dislodge the government, which is largely made up of parties that belong to the movements doing the protesting. It’s socialists protesting against socialists.
This way, there’s little chance of actually really overthrowing the puppet government the elites have established, no matter how violent the protests get. They can just play political musical chairs and that’s that. Essentially it’s the same scheme as we have in the US, just with different party names.