Posted on 05/05/2010 4:36:30 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
ATHENS—Greece's fiscal crisis took a new turn to violence Wednesday when three people died in a firebomb attack amid a paralyzing national strike, while governments from Spain to the U.S. took steps to prevent the widening financial damage from hitting their own economies.
U.S. Treasury officials have been quietly urging their European and International Monetary Fund counterparts to put together a Greek rescue plan more quickly to contain the damage, it emerged Wednesday, as U.S. policy makers worry the continent's problems could undermine a U.S. recovery much as U.S. housing woes hammered Europe in 2008.
In Spain, rival political leaders came together Wednesday with an agreement that aims to shore up shaky savings banks by the end of next month. Investors, meanwhile, are pouring money into bonds of countries seen as less exposed to the crisis, from Russia to Egypt.
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That has got to be an agent provocatuer. Even a lefty Latin American wouldn’t be that dumb.
Tea Party folks don’t like it when the left does that to us, and I don’t think we should approve it when somebody else does that to the left. It ain’t fair.
I think the UK has more then 1 in 3 as govt employees.
I don’t want to print one worthless dollar for these communists. NO US MONEY!!! I get around and the mood of this country is getting real bad. I think something could blow.(pray no). People I talk to are PISSED!
This movie’s worse - it’s gonna jump off the screen and infect us all...
Where did you get that? I`d like to download it myself. I`d pay real money to have that turned into a nice big poster.
How can we think about bailing out Greece when several of our large states are at the edge of bankruptcy?
Five or ten years? What an optimist.
It was discussed on a thread today, can’t remember the exact title but it was specific about that sign. Levin? Horowitz? With I could remember. If you check today’s articles you’ll find it.
The conclusion was that it is not photoshopped.
Coming soon to a nation near you. :)
Ooooooo... I certainly hope so. The moochers out in the open - bring it on. Loot my part of town, baby! I’ve got a little friend I want you to say hello to.
Imagine if there was only one salary, and everybody made it. Then we could all go ahead and do our jobs, whatever our abilities were, but we’d do it for the love of the work and for our common good. Wouldn’t that be grand?
I heard some in Greece are saying “We gave the world Democracy. You OWE US!”
Looks like the less equal animals are rising up against the pigs. There Will Be Blood.
Wow... you’ve GOT to be kidding me.
It’s at Leisler’s link to Denninger. Down towards the bottom of the page.
It's all part of the socialist agenda. Get useful idiots to join World Worker's Party type of groups to cause enough strife that eventually capitalism collapses. It has been happening been incrementally for decades and now the push is on.
At the business end of a firearm too!!! Long live Marxism! Workers of the World Unite!
Greece is succubing to anarchy. No one seems to bein charge. This will not end well. Even if they get a bailout, that money is already gone. ANSWER has itself a victory there.
succumbing
scusa
You hit the nail on the head.
Goldman Sachs is up to their rear-ends in the Greek financial mess
"U.S. Treasury officials have been quietly urging their European and International Monetary Fund counterparts to put together a Greek rescue plan more quickly to contain the damage, it emerged Wednesday, as U.S. policy makers worry the continent's problems could undermine a U.S. recovery much as U.S. housing woes hammered Europe in 2008."
International Monetary Fund: US Governor Timothy F. Geithner, Alternate Governor: Ben Bernanke. The US has roughly a 17% stake in the IMF. Translation: We are already helping bail out Greece.
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