Posted on 03/11/2010 4:31:26 PM PST by Nachum
Street clashes broke out between rioting youths and police in central Athens today as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government.
Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle police, knocking several off their bikes, as police responded with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades.
The violence spread after the end of the march to a nearby square, where police faced off with stone-throwing anarchists and suffocating clouds of tear gas sent patrons scurrying from open-air cafes.
Police say 16 suspected rioters were detained and two officers were injured.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The funny thing is that these youths are rioting in SUPPORT of a system that will ensure all their earnings to to taxes. They want to be tax slaves to their elders. Silly youths.
Coming to a country near you! /sarcasm
This is what happens when the entitlement crowd doesn’t get their entitlements.
Coming to every major city near you, when we working people run out of hard-earned money to pay for the ridiculously high pensions and benefits for our “civil servants”.
Fight The Power!
I can’t wait until we have that type of protest here!
Then borrow a page from the socialists and use the “emergency” to do away with all government employee unions and fire as many as will make for a sensible and sustainable economy.
It won’t be that kind of protest here. It will be way WAY worse.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Is that Deputy Prime Minister Pangloss?
Shades of Voltaire. Candide has come to Greece.
Greece = Obama’s America in a few years.
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of rabidly anti-American leftwing libtards...
I hope the productive member of Greek society realize that, as the protester aren’t being arrested for committing these acts, neither would they if they decide to stop the protesters themselves.
About 200 uniformed police, coast guard and fire brigade officers, who cannot go on strike but can hold protests, gathered at a square in the center of the city shortly before the marches got under way.
'The police and other security forces have been particularly hard hit by the new measures because our salaries are very low,' said Yiannis Fanariotis, general secretary of one police association.
Joining the protest 'doesn't feel strange, because we are working people like everybody else and we are all shouting out for our rights,' he said.
This is when you know things are seriously messed up.
What motivation is this to any EU member to cough up one penny to bail these idiots out?? When the counter riots start in Germany, we will know the end of Greece is near.
Let them do what the Chinese did under Mao from 1958-1962...they can exchange children with one another so they don’t have to eat their own.
The Albanians,the Serbians and the other assorted freaks out there are more reasonable then the Greeks.
It probably is.
>> Article: “tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government.”
Ironic the title says they’re protesting “against” govt.
Greeks will riot to protest your car running out of gas, it’s just their culture.
However, we won’t be immune. The $800 Billion Stimulus, it turns out, was used to prop up state governments. State government coffers have been falling due to decreased tax revenues from the Recession.
Here in Alabama, 40% of our 2010 state budget is federal Stimulus money. It’s unheard of. 40%! The last federal Stimulus payment to state coffers nationwide is October 1.
After October 1, bureaucrats are referring to their budgets as going over “the cliff” because unemployment is too high (greater payouts in state unemployment benefits), lower income/property/sales taxes, and no more federal Stimulus money.
So it turns out that the 2nd Stimulus wasn’t a Stimulus at all...the money was misused to keep state bureaucrats in their jobs, rather than to create new jobs.
And after October, the fun is over for states. Essentially, they can hide the looming state budget crisises nationwide, save for the worst hit states like California and Illinois, until after the November elections due to the lag in reporting.
Well, here’s a newsflash: government jobs are staffed in disproportion by the people most likely to riot when their jobs/pay are cut.
And the grand state budget coffers of old are gone. They aren’t coming back. The Baby Boomers are hitting retirement age, 30% of global wealth is gone, and 50% of the available consumer credit has been lost since 2006.
Which is to say, economies have to adjust to a smaller reality...and as do economies, so will staffing.
Greece is the “canary in the coalmine” for the rest of Europe, and eventually, for the United States. With his “stimulus” money going to prop up greedy parasitic public unions, all President Ubanga is doing is trying to put out a fire with buckets of gasoline.
I hope freepers who haven’t already made arrangements to hunker down for the long haul begin to do so immediately. Guns, ammo, gold.... Mostly, get your finances in order. Cash will be king, only be sure to protect that cash against the inevitable hyper inflation.
FRegards,
LH
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