The citizens of Greece, the country that invented democracy, deserve an international round of applause from regular folks all over the world. I’m talking about their reaction to the pillaging of their country’s economy by Goldman Sachs, other international bankers, and their own corporate-tool government.
When the verdict came down that Greece’s former right-wing government had colluded with Goldman Sachs to lie about the country’s debts, and brought on an economic disaster, many Greek citizens did exactly what Americans (home of the brave, by the people, for the people, etc., etc.) did not do when our own crisis struck. The Greeks called a general strike and demonstrated by the hundreds of thousands. And when they found out their pensions, benefits and jobs would be lost in order to pay off corporate banks, they called another general strike and shut down city centers. Some of them rioted. All in all, it was the pitchfork-and-torches scenario for Greece’s “leaders.”
In the end, the Greeks’ street protests may or may not do them any good, but their actions do prove one thing: They at least understand who’s screwing them (unlike our ignoroid Teabaggers), and they aren’t awed by big money into giving up their right to voice their just complaints. Meanwhile, we Americans, by and large, just rolled over and took whatever the finance industry/government coalition-from-hell dished out — and maybe grumbled a tiny bit before our national ADD kicked in and we went back to channel surfing or posting B.S. comments on internet sites.
This article appears in May 25-31, 2010.
Mr. Grooms is absolutely right. Theser people might actually be able to teach a lesson to the FoxNews hypnotized teabaggers here. Disgraceful.
Hey, Griffin, I thought you had a job – is this how you spend your lunch hour, you pathetic fuck?
Griffin, the subject, as usual here, is your fucked up mental state that makes you think your opinion is wanted on every issue Grooms writes about. Your comments aren’t worthy of serious comments – just the same old “liberals suck, I’m great” bullshit – or don’t you understand that yet? If I want to discuss issues seriously, I’ll do it with someone who’s halfway normal, not some computer addicted dumbass like you.
kid you’re an idiot.
As usual, Frank Griffin uses an alias again to try to defend himself. Tom=Frank Griffin
Griffoid, let’s see if you can finally understand something: The number one subject on this blog, very unfortunately, has become the psychosis that leads you to post here fifty thousand times a day and saying the same old shit over and over. In other words, to keep it simple for you, you’re an annoying asshole pest, and you are the only one here who thinks you’re as brilliant as you seem to think. People “refuse to debate” you because they don’t have enough respect for you and your ignorant blather to get down in the sewer with a nutcase. What I want to know is what will you do when and if Grooms stops writing on this site? Somebody else said it before, but you’ll be like a tick without a dog.
Yeah, misguided because you don’t listen to psycopaths like Glenn Beck and the rest of the Klan over on Fox News. Glen Beck now claims he has been sent from God.
He is blasphemer who will rot in hell. God will make all the lying republicans pay for such.
And this manchild who keeps commenting here about the same trash, only proves he is but one of the same people bound for a special place, nicely reserved for him in Hell itself. The sooner that happens, the better.