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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on November 14, 2010, 10:21:01 PM
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Greek Socialists win local poll as debt fears rise
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's governing Socialists emerged the winner of local government elections, despite a record low turnout and renewed pressure on the crisis-hit nation to impose a new round of drastic spending cuts.
With 99.6 percent of the vote counted nationwide, the Socialists won mayoral races in Athens and Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, for the first time in 24 years.
Associated Press (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Greek-Socialists-win-local-apf-3916273214.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=)
So much for fixing anything over there.
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The voters are worried about debt, so they elect . . . Socilaists. What a GREAT idea. :whatever:
I just hope that when the Greek economy collapses, it doesn't take the rest of Europe with it. . . . Which would stand a decent chance of taking us with them.
on edit : please pardon the spelling. that was from my blackberry.
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The voters are worried about debt, so they elect . . . Socilaists. What a GREAT idea. :whatever:
But totally predictable, no? When belt-tightening is threatened, their response is to vote for the biggest liar who promises that voter's personal free ride won't be brought to an end. Socialist public spending couple with coercive government taxing power is the Achilles' heel of popular democracy.
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But totally predictable, no? When belt-tightening is threatened, their response is to vote for the biggest liar who promises that voter's personal free ride won't be brought to an end. Socialist public spending couple with coercive government taxing power is the Achilles' heel of popular democracy.
yep. fighting for "the little guy", or "working families" (whatever those turn out to be), or the "middle class", is the biggest of the big lies in history. we don't need anyone to "fight for us" if no one is out to do us harm in the first place. and we certainly don't need government, especially the central government, the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing, to do the fighting/protecting.
but it sounds good, so people buy into it.
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The voters are worried about debt, so they elect . . . Socilaists. What a GREAT idea. :whatever:
Who's advising those idiots? The same idiots that advise the imposter in the White Mosque?! :mental: