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girl gone mad

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36. You're pushing neoliberal propaganda (and xenophobia).

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 05:39 AM

Feb 2012

Tax avoidance by the wealthy and by corporations is a serious problem in Germany, the UK, and, of course, in the United States. Our corporations and our .01% probably put the Greeks to shame when it comes to using tax loopholes and shelters and any other means of not paying their fair share.

Your rhetoric on "noshow jobs" and "easy pensions" could have come straight from Grover Norquist or any other anti-government/anti-worker right winger in America.

Greece could increase its export market and reduce imports if it could manage its exchange rate. Greece could also pay its workers a fair salary without being forced to borrow if it had a central bank. These are the essential things a country gives up when it trades away its currency sovereignty.

In all seriousness, no American should be lecturing Greece on trade deficits and government debt, or tax avoidance by the rich or dependence on foreign borrowing, etc.

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They're teargassing the people so that the markets can win [View all] malaise Feb 2012 OP

Our media is a disgrace. annabanana Feb 2012 #1

I don't even call it media anymore. It's just a bullshit propaganda machine. It's RKP5637 Feb 2012 #7

Soon coming to a country near you. n/t MadHound Feb 2012 #2

p.s. This needs to be kicked through for the cube rats....n/t annabanana Feb 2012 #3

The BBC has decent coverage of the riot Warpy Feb 2012 #4

It's getting here like in the Iron Curtain days. One has to go to the RKP5637 Feb 2012 #12

du rec. nt xchrom Feb 2012 #5

Yes, molotov cocktails are a perfectly reasonable form of protest. TheWraith Feb 2012 #6

When someone is trying to destroy you, you don't react with witty slogans Scootaloo Feb 2012 #14

When peaceful protest is denied and people feel hopeless CanonRay Feb 2012 #19

Let's cut your wages in half and see if you still agree with that statement. backscatter712 Feb 2012 #20

Exactly. Burn the shit down. Anarchy and ruin is better than the alternative... Zalatix Feb 2012 #22

The guilloitine would be more reasonable at this point. girl gone mad Feb 2012 #30

This message was self-deleted by its author Hissyspit Feb 2012 #41

Solidarity with KKE and the people of Greece. nt TBF Feb 2012 #8

K&R !!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2012 #9

CNN International TV reporting things are calming a bit. Vote in 30 mins. DCBob Feb 2012 #10

vote passed - haven't seen the numbers yet, that will be interesting. Protest has again intensified BelgianMadCow Feb 2012 #24

Nooo... They are teargassing people because they are setting shit on fire. Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2012 #11

With agents provacateurs used so routinely, how do we know who set the fires? snot Feb 2012 #13

anarchists don't need much provocation Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2012 #21

Let's both agree not to project 'til facts emerge as to who actually set the fires, snot Feb 2012 #29

It's not so the markets can win -- that would be better than the reality. It's so the 1% snot Feb 2012 #15

Bullshit. They're teargassing the people because someone started throwing... TreasonousBastard Feb 2012 #16

I agree. The greeks lied about what their debt was to get the euro, then borrowed applegrove Feb 2012 #27

Not true. girl gone mad Feb 2012 #32

Why are you so willing to let the lenders off the hook? Germany and France coalition_unwilling Feb 2012 #33

You're pushing neoliberal propaganda (and xenophobia). girl gone mad Feb 2012 #36

Drachman is coming... nradisic Feb 2012 #17

"... five building were in flames in downtown Athens, including a bank ..." Scuba Feb 2012 #18

note: the voilence is not a couple of agents provocateurs BelgianMadCow Feb 2012 #23

Burn it all to the fucking ground. Leave nothing for the banksters. Hotler Feb 2012 #25

I hate the bankers but I'm not burning a single building malaise Feb 2012 #26

As John Lennon sang Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #34

Indeed malaise Feb 2012 #38

Don't burn buildings, expropriate them and expel their coalition_unwilling Feb 2012 #35

That is the correct approach malaise Feb 2012 #37

+1000!!! FirstLight Feb 2012 #28

Here's some great coverage from Aljezeera Matariki Feb 2012 #31

Thanks for the pics malaise Feb 2012 #39

They've been dragging this out jeanpalmer Feb 2012 #40