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Thread #157574   Message #3723981
Posted By: Thompson
16-Jul-15 - 07:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Greece in meltdown? What do you think?
Subject: RE: BS: Greece in meltdown? What do you think?
Look at this disgusting tantrum by Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt in the European Parliament, screaming at Alexis Tsipras. He's saying Greece has to cut the public sector ("it's difficult for the leftists") - in fact, Greece has already cut 75,000 public sector jobs in one-and-a-half years, throwing all those people out of work, and cut the survivors' wages by a third. Europe screeches for pension cuts: Greece has cut pensions by 40% - and many families' only income is Grandma's pension now. And so on. He's talking about the Greek shipowners - Syriza last week offered tax income equal to what Europe was then requiring, but Syriza's taxes would have been on the rich, which was not acceptable to the EU.