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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 11:23 AM Original message |
Majority of Greeks support more protests: polls |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
1. As I understand this |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. like the USA except corporations and military are getting all "the bennies" thanks to our govt nt |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Yeah, those greedy military guys |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. The guys in the military are not the greedy ones. |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Great assumption, but still an assumption |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Sadly your understanding seems to come solely from the right wing propaganda. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 03:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. If Greece defaults |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Good. A system that fragile needs replacing. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:50 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Admittedly, it needs replacing |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 07:04 PM Response to Reply #31 |
66. If it gets bad enough that the Hate Radio-addled Americans act like the Greeks |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
30. Thank you, Jack |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 01:42 AM Response to Reply #7 |
54. I couldn't agree more. Greece needs to default and yes, restore |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. It's not at all the EU that is a failure... |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I doubt that the average Greek |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. One of the strangest critiques I have heard is that the Greeks |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 05:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. Yeah, this "14 months" propaganda is infuriating. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 01:36 AM Response to Reply #1 |
53. Your understanding is wrong. But it's what you are supposed to |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
3. Who do they think should pay for their benefits? The Germans? We Americans? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 01:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. They themselves, in their own national currency. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Who is the biggest contributer to the IMF? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Whom has the IMF ever benefited? |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:08 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. When the government of Greece goes to Goldman Sachs |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Nice little conflation of "the government" with "the Greeks" you perform. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:31 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. OK - so what? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:55 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. It's the better choice than debt slavery. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 05:09 PM Response to Reply #9 |
34. Oh, and in case you didn't get it... |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. I agree - they should sink or swim on their own. nt |
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Flaneur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 01:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Totally unsurprising post from this poster. |
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Democat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Maybe they actually want to bankrupt their own country for some reason? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. Their country is bankrupt. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. you know, they are all lazy welfare queens... |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 05:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
36. We live to work, they work to live. Good luck to them. Happy siestas, friends! |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
65. way to spin shit |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. Greece just had their general elections last October. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 05:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
33. Yes, these are what set off the crisis... |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. right wing propaganda |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
10. Majority of Greeks support ice cream and free ponies. nt |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. point being? |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 02:31 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Ben Franklin |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 03:03 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Since 1963, the rich have taken over the government of this country. |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. so the very rich get extra votes ? |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. who wants a free ride in AZ? |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:44 PM Response to Reply #24 |
47. Not referring directly to AZ, but since you ask |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 11:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
52. The rich give the big donations that make it possible for the politicians |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 09:29 AM Response to Reply #52 |
57. that's a long winded way of saying the masses are stupid or don't care |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. Yes, the election result in Massachusetts was an excellent example |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #59 |
62. not likely... |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 06:35 PM Response to Reply #52 |
64. Well said! nt |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 03:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Demanding expensive services on one hand |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. how do you know so much about Greece? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 04:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Read it in attack pieces by the organs of Anglosphere banking, of course. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. the last possibility |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. Or maybe through life experiences beyond DU? nt |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:20 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Like what? Did you visit the Acropolis while there? |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:34 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. And your reflexive, cliched anti-capitalist shtick |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:57 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. If you look around this thread... |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. The Navy took me many places. nt |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:22 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Clearly, no better way to learn about the world than from an American base. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. No - we lived on the economy. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 02:05 AM Response to Reply #20 |
56. Keep repeating those rightwing talking points, if you do it often |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 01:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
55. 'ponies' ~ another word from the script |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
50. K&R....n/t |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
51. They've been screwed and it isn't particularly fair, but there isn't really an alternative. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #51 |
60. So you're saying the "markets" are a dictatorship of the world. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. And under global capitalism, they basically are. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 06:30 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. There's sudden, and there's serial... |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 06:52 PM Response to Reply #63 |
67. bumpity - in lieu of the thread I should start about "Greek Mythologies" .... |
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