Ken Burch
One thing is sure - many are in a desperate situation, without pay, with the prospect of missing everything they might have worked for all their life.. If you are in that situation, you tend to not "take it anymore" and fight back... The greeks is a people who fight all the time, but now I guess they are united in a form that I doubt any government could take for granted.. As the election last sunday pointed out, the big parties got "wiped out" when the smaller parties, line the nationalist, or the communist got most of the election voters.. And even if it doesn't make to much of noise, it symbolize the fact that the greeks are not happy with who things have been going lately... But even a new government have to take some responsibility for what mess the greek are up in today..
I'm not sure what is the best for the greeks.. Maybe they need to get off the Euro, back to Drakme, and work with the EU in another setting than they hoped for, when they was leaving the Drakme for Euro.. In any cases, Euro will be used in Greeke as valid tender I guess for a long time.. But the unfairness about how things have been working out for the masses in Greek, is absolutely something that could end up in a lot of problems for a long, long time even for a new government in Greece...
But, I wish american workers have had the same guts to fight the government as the greek had.. I know US have a whole different history when it came to workers right and all that.. But if a couple of million americans was telling their state legislators, and the federal government they better do the right thing, or it will be consequences - then they had to listen.. Today americans look as they are to diverse to organize them self into a power to be recognized with.. In the horrible conditions of the 1930s they managed to organize them self into a power to reckon with.. Why can not americans do it again, organize, and make demands... ?
Diclotican
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