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To: NormsRevenge
Government officials warned that Greeks faced "unimaginably harsher" sacrifices if parliament rejected the package, which demands deep pay, pension and job cuts, when it votes later in the evening.

What is considered "deep?"

18 posted on 02/12/2012 1:19:42 PM PST by RightField (one of the obstreperous citizens insisting on incorrect thinking - C. Krauthamer)
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To: RightField

Don’t know what the new ‘deep’ pay cuts will be, but a neurologist friend in Athens has already taken a 30% pay cut.


56 posted on 02/12/2012 7:37:26 PM PST by JustSurrounded (Repeal it all.)
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To: RightField

22% is in many articles so 50k US would become 39k.


59 posted on 02/13/2012 1:54:49 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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