Posted on 10/19/2011 12:34:34 AM PDT by Watchdog85
Unions representing around half of Greece's 4 million-strong workforce have called a 48 hour general strike for Wednesday and Thursday to protest against a sweeping package of austerity measures due to be passed in parliament this week.
A wave of smaller strikes over recent days by groups ranging from rubbish collectors to tax officials, journalists and seamen has given a foretaste of this week's protest which will culminate in mass demonstrations in front of parliament, the scene of violent clashes in June.
The protest, dubbed "the mother of all strikes" by the daily Ta Nea newspaper, is expected to be the biggest since the financial crisis began two years ago, shutting state offices, shops and even providers of everyday staples like bakers.
"They've made people want to throw stones at them with these measures. If they were willing to give up their salaries and bonuses, we would probably feel differently about them," said teacher Stamatina Lazopoulou, 36, a mother of two, who will take part in the strike
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This is what will happen to us unless Zero is removed from office and our Senators and Congressmen grow some stones.
With the strike, people don’t get paid.
It saves the government money.
I would like to know what the heck is wrong with the math center of the brains of the people rallying for more and more entitlements on shrinking revenue.
Stupid motherstrikers.
The dependent class in Europe especially Greece have exhausted all
socialist entitlements. Colossal government failure. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Europe is broke. Those lazy bumbs need to discipline their culture and learn
how to earn a living.
You’d think Greece would be an excellent farming area, if nothing else. But I haven’t seen Greek anything in the grocery except olives and olive oil.
Greek workers are behaving like US democrat senators
You guessed wrong. Greece is rather poor farmland. That’s why the ancient Greeks were big on homosexuality. They utilized it as a form of birth control since the country had neither the room or the agricultural capacity to support a large population.
They built colonies all over the Mediterranean to remedy overpopulation.
I wish our tax collectors and journalists would go on strike and stay there.
I don’t understand how a general strike in Greece is supposed to intimidate the Germans into paying higher taxes to support Greek subsidy arrangements.
The frickin’ left just don’t get the concept of not enough tax money to go around. Let them starve for a while they will be glad to take pay cuts after a bit.
Socialism fails 100% of the time. The overwhelming Greed debt will remain whether or not they strike. Like other unions that contribute zero to GDP, who do not create wealth, they just want the "rich" wherever they are, to pay more, to pay their "fair" share. It matters not whether there is enough wealth to do that, because unions understand not.
Oh yeah, that’ll fix it, wrecking what little remains of the Greek economy.
Why don’t they burn down their own neighborhoods and raise taxes while they’re at it? Surely nirvana would be just around the corner.
If the Greeks were “smart” like we are here in the USA, they would create their own Federal Reserve Bank and just print more money.
Weird.
...and care not.
Feta cheese, ozo and retsina
....well...they did invent hairy armpits for females.
Lucky Greeks, most of their modern GDP is from tourist industries. (From official Greek website.)
Well, who’d want to vacation in Greece if at any time they could call a stupid strike like this? Sounds like cutting off their own nose to spite their face.
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