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martyb
on Monday July 06 2015, @08:57AM
from the getting-what-you-asked-for-may-not-be-getting-what-you-want dept.
from the getting-what-you-asked-for-may-not-be-getting-what-you-want dept.
The Greeks voted no to the European Union's terms, despite warnings from the EU that rejecting new austerity terms would set their country on a path out of the Eurozone. 62% voted "No" while 38% voted "Yes".
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The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 06 2015, @02:01PM
Whatever sympathy I might have had for the ECB vanished in a puff of smoke when they demanded austerity for the pensioners.
Leave the old people out of it.
Those old people are a large part of the problem. After all, who is paying for the pensions they generously voted for themselves?
(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Monday July 06 2015, @07:54PM
Similar situation to the UK. A lot of the people who troubled themselves to vote were those who are at or are nearing pensionable age, hence voted for the Tories as they promised a "triple lock" (feel free to look this up; I can't bring myself to read it again) on pensions. That the ones most affected by the "austerity" (read "flagellation to beat the money out of you") _didn't_ trouble themselves to vote is, admittedly, their fault, but it's still the likes of me who get to work until I'm 70 to ensure all these old buggers get their triple-locked pension. I think the plan is to now keep working us until we're about to drop dead and then boot us onto the dole, a safety net which is having the holes gradually enlarged year-on-year, allowing more people to slip through. And all the while, the wages reduce while the cost of everything goes up.
Unfortunately medical science is now able to keep more of these self-serving old bastards alive for longer, hence we'll be paying for them for longer.