And none for “irony”.
Striking public and private sector workers grounded flights, shut down schools and paralysed public transport and about 50,000 marched through the capital. Some shouted: “Revolt! Overturn government measures!”
As the march reached parliament, about 200 leftists attacked former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis with their fists, stones and sticks, shouting: “Thieves! Shame on you!”
Coming soon to a Canada near you?
In a just universe their tongues would burst into flame from saying that.
With any luck, all of the socialist/union ass kissing infrastructure will come tumbling down soon. Break out the shotguns!
Wow, what a devolution. From the worlds once most enlightened and brilliant race to a pack of groveling, rioting, lazy, worthless, cheating, lying, socialist pigs and short order cooks the world has ever seen.
Aristotle must be spinning in his grave.
Irony in action.
How can they not see it….amazing, just amazing….
Jack Layton would be proud….
Almost like St. Petersburg, March 1917.
I can’t help but think that, like a lot of European countrys, their best and brightest emmigrated to America years ago leaving behind a lot of lazy socialists and freeloaders.
Actually, “irony” is from the Greek ειρωνεία (eirōneía) via the Latin īrōnīa, &
was brought into English ca. 1500. In 1533, for example, More wrote, “When
he calleth one self naughty lad, both a shreud boy & good sonne, the tone in y’
proper simple spech, the tother by the fygure of ironye or antiphrasis”.
Ironic, isn’t it.
It’s ironic as hell it’s also just weird they’d bring up calling themselves “naughty lads” too.
NTTAWWT
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts especially Greek governments.
“Coming soon to a Canada near you?”
McGuinty will be defeated next year and replaced with a Conservative who will have to enact major cuts to government spending. Then it will be Round Two of the Days of Action protests.
It’s going to be mayhem as the government unions take over the streets.
“Today is a warning for what will follow after the holidays,” – Ilias Iliopoulos as quoted in Reuters.
Irony? And you did not think they have any sense.
The Greeks, like other European nations (Britain included) are trapped within the European Union.
Everybody knew that the Greek government (and others) lied their heads off to get into the euro currency. It was done with the intention of provoking this situation because it is what the EU elite calls “a beneficial crisis” and the answer to all such crises is more power to the EU and less democracy.
A friend, who was an adviser to Conservative ministers years ago, told me that the Bundesbank knew this would all happen. Unless Greece breaks free from the euro, it will end up owned lock, stock and barrel by Germany but with an EU veil covering the nakedness of the fact.
Britain is not in the eurozone but is signed up under the Maastricht treaty to every stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), apart from fixing the exchange rate and changing the notes and coins to euros. It is a trap that can be sprung any time. Although a referendum was promised years ago, there is no constitutional need to hold one. It can just be announced. The Lisbon treaty, to which our government is signed up, says that the euro is the currency of the EU . FULL STOP
The anti-austerity riots are a massive irony. In Greece, we see a nation teetering on economic collapse due to insurmountable public debt and yet the people don’t want the spending to stop.
Irony?
Sorry to prick your bubble, but the “socialist” government in this country (Australia) managed the GFC very nicely, thank you.
Sorry to inflate it again, but Australians have a work ethic not seen in Greece and ‘your’ socialist Govt is not that old; indeed, it is reaping the benefits of prior Conservative stewardship.
Greek public sector unions on strike . . . has all the trappings of a circular firing squad.
Give them more ammunition.
Deeper irony. The more they protest, the more injuries, damage and policing costs thus more expense for the government (small by comparison to their debt woes, I admit).
They just can’t seem to get going in the right direction.
It’s all Greek to me….
@Jursk
Yes – we also have ICDs (Inbuilt Crap detectors) which are working overtime on this site. The GFC happened on Labor’s watch, and it was sorted on Labor’s watch. You can’t rewrite history…….
socialist moonbats everywhere are the same, long on self delusion and short on simple ability to handle reality.
Greeks are like Americans . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A4bp-Yl97o&feature=player_embedded#!
Hear hear, number boy. And, dont’ forget immigration – gotta love Labor!
@Kate
The people on the boats are there because of the outcomes of American adventurism in the Middle East.
Labor opposed the invasion of Iraq.
If you read the history I’ve lived, you will discover that a similar exodus of boat people to this country occurred after another American policy failure, this time in SE Asia.
Labor opposed that adventure as well.
Notice the symmetry?
1735099 Believe as you wish. Maybe it is American adventurism or it could be they are without work because the 19th century passed their lands by. They could be killed for their beliefs if they are the wrong ones or they are out of favour. You took your pick and I’ll take mine.
“How can they not see it….”
Oh they see it jcl, this is just the conniption-fit that goes along with children desperately trying to get-out of pulling their own weight. These people understand fully that the gravy train is coming to an end, they are simply trying to ensure that they scrape every last drop before the next guy can get some.
You might recall the video linked on SDA where at a liberal rally a conservative asked a participant about the wisdom of continuing deficit spending when they’re already drowning in debt, to which he responded “we’ll, I’d spend as much as I could for as long as I can – then, deal with it later”. The problem with these children, is they don’t understand that ‘later’ is now.
Seems a bit dishonest to talk about Greece and their responses to their financial problems without noting that it is a Socialist Gov with the austerity budget trying to solve the mess.
For all the reality based observers.
They are indicative of youth raised on socialists entitlements and when the money runs out for said programs they scream, rant, riot and have public temper tantrums. Personally I’d love to see their entire economy tank, let those nasty little socialsits’ crawl around in dumps looking for food perhaps they’ll come to understand the socialists’ freebies have to end or they all STARVE together.
Rose, exactly, and let it spread to the other countries. The way I see it is that there is a danger though that the communists with the collusion of the anarchists will attempt to take over.
it is a Socialist Gov with the austerity budget trying to solve the mess.
Oh yeah, the ol'”Rae Day” shuffle.
Ken & Rose, careful what you wish for, socialist tend to over re-act.
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/mao.html
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/lenin.html
@ Speedy
“You took your pick”
No – I was conscripted….
The left wants to spend, spend and spend. Now they are broke and crying about it.
Simply no common sense, only a sense of entitlements.
Quote of the day
“Refuse to be enslaved by the idea that it’s your civic and moral responsibility to pay off the debts of your government’s failures.”
I’m remembering very nice Greek neighbours in Vancouver a couple decades back. They regaled my wife and I with tales of Greeks lying and looting their social services, e.g., phony disability pensions. What stuck us was the sheer unalloyed mirth in their voices as they told us these tales, which evidently weren’t tall! Creeped us out.
Gray: Seems a bit dishonest to talk about Greece and their responses to their financial problems without noting that it is a Socialist Gov with the austerity budget trying to solve the mess.
Seriously Gray? You’re going to credit this socialist government for making cuts without being backed into a corner?
Oh wait, they were… by their crushing debt load. You might as well credit Merkel’s conservative leaning government for the austerity measures because that’s where the pressure is coming from.
1735099 So you have never changed your mind since?
It never ceases to amaze me that those people who couldn’t be bothered to lift their hind-ends to whipe it clean are the first to show up and violently complain about the lack of their “free-shtuff”.
Sorry Katye, where’s the irony? Maybe I’m missing something.
17053099
The people on the boats are there because of the outcomes of American adventurism in the Middle East.
Afghans were fleeing to Australia well before the USA ever got involved in “adventurism” in that part of the world. Was there not a controversy circa 1999 or 2000 about a ship full of refugees being held at sea for an extended period? They were fleeing the Taliban. And yes, at the time there was oblique criticism of the US for not “doing more” about the Taliban, mainly from the same lot who now lambaste it for “doing something” about the Taliban.
Well what do you know, here’s a BBC article dated six days before the commencement of American “adventurism”: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1523897.stm
This quote is telling:
Western governments would dearly like to be rid of the regimes which give rise to the current flood of emigrants – including President Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq and that of the Taleban hardline Islamic rulers in Afghanistan.
But in those places the West has scant influence.
But I guess it’s a lot easier to just reflexively blame America for Australia’s problem with “boat people”.
Socialist government had to try to solve the mess, I assume that the governments of Britain, Germany and France .insited on it. Even now Brits are afraid that i/o austerity measures Greece will try to restructure its debt and as a result their banks will loose huge amount of money.
However there is another interesting side to the current Greek crisis – the move by Chinese. Hours after Moody downgraded Greece debt, Chinese signed multibilion contract with Greek government. The question now is “How long we shall wait before China will own Greece lock, stock and barrel?
number guy
Few of the boat-people who were fleeing to Australia from Indonesia were from Iraq.
Perhaps you can explain to me why Iraqis who were able to flee to Indonesia – a Muslim country – did not stay in Indonesia, among their co-believers? And furthermore were did they get the money to pay for such trip? I think that the price of such trip is in tens of thousands dollars. (few years ago the “trip” from Kurdistan to Greece did cost couple of thousands dollars) So tell me where these people get the money from?
How do they separate the men from the boys in Greece?
With a crowbar.
‘Me No Dhimmi’; if you lived in Kits, you’ll likely remember, from the ’70s, all those Greek restaurants with rather convenient early morning fires…
We had to keep trying new ones as our old favourites kept going up in flames. Very inconsiderate.
“I have a plan. We build this giant Badger out of wood…”
Both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were originally supported, encouraged and funded by the CIA. You reap what you sow.
@ ella
I doubt their religion had much to do with why they didn’t stay in Indonesia – unless they were Christians. Since the “liberation” of Iraq, life for Christians has become untenable in Iraq, and it wouldn’t be much better in Indonesia.
BTW – they probably got the money bt selling everything they owned, much in the same way as the Vietnamese boat people did.
@ Robert of Ottawa
That’s funny. Last time I looked Iraq and Iran were in the Middle East. Don’t they teach geography in Canada?