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    Greece Riots!

    Here is a short news story, I wrote up for a class of mine on what's happening in Greece. My teacher wanted me to write a story on Whitney Houston with the rest of the class, to which I said fuck that. I could give two shits less about Whitney Houston.

    Many of you probably don’t know that Greece’s economy is a lot worse then ours is, and the people of Greece are really suffering. The country owes a massive amount of debt, sound familiar?

    Well, just like our government bailed out the banks and auto industry the EU is now having to bail out Greece, and this weekend the EU voted on a bailout plan, and when the Greek people heard the news they began to protest. Peacefully at first of course, but sooner or later the anarchist showed up and started throwing gasoline bombs into buildings and just doing their whole anarchist thing of creating chaos.

    The New York Times said, “About 150 stores were vandalized and looted, and about 45 buildings — including neo-Classical structures, two historic movie theaters, banks and cafes — were seriously burned, many beyond repair, according to the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry.”

    Well some of you may ask why are the people of Greece rioting? I mean after all the EU is bailing them out!
    
Well, this bailout calls for cuts in the wage of the people, dropping month pay from 751 euros to 500 euros ($1000 to $795), and allows employers to cut new employee’s pay by 10%. The people are getting less and less, and now to fix the problem their government has to cut even more.

    For the time being all we can do is sit back and watch and hope that our government leaders don’t make the same mistakes that Greece’s did and allowed themselves to be crushed by their debt.





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    Well we have already been bailed out by Israel. So lord knows wtf is going to happen next with these dipshits in our congress. The only thing that gets a full bipartisan vote anymore is increasing the wages of Congress members. They even go ahead and do a 2/3 vote on it after the President votes it. (Happened back in both Obama's and Bush's Presidency) This pic pretty much sums it up



    I believe these figures are now out of date (by out of date I mean the debt is even bigger) but the pic serves its purpose
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    Re: Greece Riots!

    Just add another Trillion to our national debt


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    Please tell me you aren't just now hearing about the Greece Riots?
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    Re: Greece Riots!

    Obama's newly proposed budget plan:
    1. Raise taxes
    2. Add debt
    3. ???
    4. Profit
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mythonian View Post
    Obama's newly proposed budget plan:
    1. Raise taxes
    2. Add debt
    3. ???
    4. Profit
    Number 3 is to increase Lemonade Stands by 600%

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mythonian View Post
    Obama's newly proposed budget plan:
    1. Raise taxes
    2. Add debt
    3. ???
    4. Profit
    Every republican:

    1. Fuck everything up
    2. Ban Gay's rights
    3. ???
    4. Profit off war.
    Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mythonian View Post
    Obama's newly proposed budget plan:
    1. Raise taxes
    2. Add debt
    3. ???
    4. Profit
    Every republican:

    1. Fuck everything up
    2. Ban Gay's rights
    3. ???
    4. Profit off war.
    Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
    Through passion, I gain strength.
    Through strength, I gain power.
    Through power, I gain victory.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RENGADE 0F FUNK View Post
    Every republican:

    1. Fuck everything up
    2. Ban Gay's rights
    3. ???
    4. Profit off war.
    Wars stimulate our economy more than any other time. WW2, for example, brought us out of the Great Depression. Because everyone had a cause and decided to actually do something instead of complain to the government, like everyone does now.

    Conservatives:
    1. Reduce entitlements (free health-care, and other stuff that we don't need)
    2. Find tax equilibrium (Economic classes touch on the subject, but basically, more taxes does not mean more revenue)
    3. Promote business by reducing corporate taxes (which creates jobs, by the way)
    4. Lessen gun laws (how can you complain about that?)
    5. Profit.
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