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ATHENS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Greek protesters clashed with police and set fire to cars and a hotel in central Athens on Wednesday as tens of thousands marched against austerity measures aimed at pulling the country out of a debt crisis.
Riot police responded with dozens of rounds of teargas in clashes that lasted more than an hour in the biggest and most violent march since three people died in protests in May. Police chased hooded youths who threw sticks and stones.
Hours earlier, parliament approved reforms and spending cuts that are a condition of a 110-billion-euro ($150-billion) EU/IMF bailout granted in May in exchange for austerity measures.
UPDATE 5-Greek police clash with anti-austerity protesters | Reuters
Nobody should like austerity, seeing as how it is the economic elite's way of getting the poor to pay for their f-ups.
Get the popcorn folk, these are coming attractions on its way to a city in the US near you.
Looks fun eh?
j-mac
Tell me, in your home budget, do you practice any of what could be termed "austerity" measures? I be willing to bet you do. In that case whom are you punishing?
j-mac
Dont worry.. American's dont have the balls to demonstrate against the government.
That's what happens when you use government to take from some and hand out to others. They are too use to it, and their reaction? Violence.
Isn't that what this really is? We will violently take what we think is ours?
Exactly Mach, and when government continues to act like the money you labor for is theirs and they "LET" you keep some of it, and spend the rest recklessly people get mad. But hey, let's not stop a good thing....The bank of China seems to be open and ready to go!
j-mac
Yea yea.. and where were those "prinicples" during the last 30 years under Republican administrations and/or Republican controlled congress? No where.. they spent like drunken sailors and make "Euros" look like amateurs.
Hardly....Let's see, 30 years ago I was 18 yrs old and barely even concerned with politics. But I think if you were to do an honest assessment of spending in this country liberals far outweigh the destructive spending that has gone on.
j-mac
By "destructive" do you mean social programs that try to help ordinary people instead of giving tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans?
Get the popcorn folk, these are coming attractions on its way to a city in the US near you.
Looks fun eh?
j-mac
Your propaganda has been addressed many times. Heck, Obama doesn't even use the "tax cuts for the wealthy" anymore.....Get with it man.
j-mac
Its just Eurotrash just being Eurotrash think that everybody else who works for their money somehow owes them something. If those idiots are not careful their governments might ban protests or claim that kind of protests is a form of hate speech.
What "propaganda" have I been saying? Please cite specific examples
Yes. They took that money from other people, and are doing things with it that those people don't support.By "destructive" do you mean social programs that try to help ordinary people instead of giving tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans?
No doubt I agree. But how far away is the US from that, I'd say listen to liberal radicals in this country and I determine not far at all.
j-mac
Hardly....Let's see, 30 years ago I was 18 yrs old and barely even concerned with politics. But I think if you were to do an honest assessment of spending in this country liberals far outweigh the destructive spending that has gone on.
j-mac
I do not think liberals in this country are stupid enough to think that rioting and vandalizing property because they want to mooch off tax payers will score them cool points or get them what they want.
LOLZ I'm in college, thus I have no home budget.
No, rioting will not help as it will work againist us, however I do support non-violent protests.
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