Los Tiempos de Nueva York: Riot police clashed with protesting Culture Ministry workers barricading the ancient Acropolis on Thursday, using tear gas to clear the entrance to Greece’s most famous landmark. [. . .] Greece is in the midst of a tough austerity program which has cut public workers’ salaries and trimmed pensions in an […]
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The New York Times concerning the Greek draft austerity budget: The Greek government, which this year has come under the tutelage of its euro-zone partners and the International Monetary Fund after it reached the brink of default, on Monday presented a draft austerity budget for 2011 that promised to raise more tax revenue while ending […]
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Apparently, the European financial fallout is not the fault of those nations which borrowed and spent money like it was going out of fucking style, but because Germany was not living up to its socialist duty by redistributing its earned wealth to the fucking losers of PIIGS. Some anonymous douchebag via The New York Times: […]
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So let me get this shit straight. Greece, a country full of “where’s my check at?” fucktards spends its way into utter bankruptcy, riots because government “gives in” to outside demands to cut spending as the only condition to receive its bailout loan (which is sure to only drag out the inevitable), and now they […]