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I'm sorry...

Yeah. fair enough.

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This! 100.000 people and even more! Today Greece is on strike, in the streets demanding a better future, demanding our lives and our dreams back!

What are the chances that it will descend into violence?

Well duh.
Greece has one of the worst records for strikes in Europe.
There's ALWAYS violence during strikes and demonstrations, nothing EVER gets sorted out....and with a bit of luck it'll all end in even more restrictive legislation and more misery.

That is why I am so bitterly disappointed that apparently there are still organisations in Greece that think this is a workable strategy when a country is this close to financial and political ruin.

If this were the fifties, I'd swear this would look most like an openly communist ploy to utterly destabilise a country and provide the grounds for a glorious socialist dictatorship.

I fully understand the attitude of (and need for) defiance.
There are huge developments the man in the street isn't consulted on but will be paying the bill for.
I have no problem with voicing that displeasure, and in fact in principle I agree that the newly suggested austerity measures to be able to get that second bail-out package are nonsense.
Nobody really wants to face the truth: Greece will NEVER be able to pay back. NEVER.
To pretend otherwise is a lie and a fraud perpetrated by each and every member of the EU agreeing to this package.

What I am annoyed about is that the unions still wave around the message that these strikes will actually accomplish anything. They won't. It is going to hurt, whichever way anyone is turning. It's just another lie.

This is not about ousting a government (which you CAN do by shutting down a country by strikes): this is about the very social, political and economic make-up of a continent. Strikes are pointless.
Seriously, I'd support a revolution and an immediate cessation out of the EU before I'd support these strikes.

I am not against Greece.
I am worried for the Greek people.

I understand.

Agree with every single word here.

1. We are at fault largely for what happened. Others too, but mostly us.
2. These strikes accomplish nothing. They turn the country even more backwards instead and they add to the general misery.
3. Greece can never be as it was before. Let's face it. For many reasons.
4. Time to re-organize, destroy the largest dumb and dead part of the state that doesn't do its job and its obsolete in burden of every single citizen's pay-taxes.
5. Time to sit down, get serious. And work. Like dogs, for many years to come.

These action are sending the country into the middle-ages. Our fate is pre-decided by others and it's largely sealed. And irreversible. Time to wake up from romantic Greek dreams and face the tough tomorrow.

wasn't talking about you or teacher and certainly not the low paid public employees dear stavi. but for the corrupted oversized public sector and high ranked government officials and rotten politicians that sunk this country and wasted public money taxes and funds for year till they sucked it all dry. But people of greece are also to be blamed. Our parents and grandparents generations. We haven't even started working yet. They left nothing. Becaue when your only priority is to steal the taxes and make it into the public sector so that you will always have a stable and 'sure' paycheck for life without ever being evaluated or having to worry about loosing your job if you don't try enough or in fact : work. when voting and political views are inherited by your parents. When you elect politicians and goverments for 30 years when those people should be in jail instead. When you do not respeCT THE laws at all. You know this is what is going to happen in the end.

If you make it will they fly you out to the US?

It's good to talk

Seriously Alan, good luck!

Why not!?

I spent the last couple of nights in London, on Monday me and Mel and Sarah ( Sarah is the widow of my very good friend who died a couple years ago ) decided to be tourists for the day and went to The Tower of London because none of us had been there before, I love History and learnt a few things I didn't know such as the fact that it was considered a priviledge to be executed within the tower walls, the likes of Henry VIII's two wives who were executed were not for public spectacle.

The crown jewels were spectacular, I was seriously considering nicking them but was put off by three foot thick steel doors that weigh two and a half tonnes and an active military garrison stationed within the tower walls, if it weren't for these factors I'd have taken them and used the wealth to purchase some CD's.