Street Riots in Athens

[12secGT]

Jag your incredible ignorance never ceases to amaze me.

Greece is bankrupt because it put itself into massive debt which was created through wasteful and outrageous government spending. Greece did zero investment in the private sector and instead gave the whole country jobs for life through the government where everyone gets 2 months a year paid vacation, pensions that comprise almost 90% of their salary etc.

Greece is the perfect example of why socialism is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Blaming the IMF is a weak argument that is shared by people with equally weak minds. Now these braindead slobs are rioting and burning their own capital to the ground because the Nanny state can't afford to subsidize their vacation days and astronomical pensions. Boo hoo hoo. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

Sounds familiar... 

[Skeletor]

Jag your incredible ignorance never ceases to amaze me.

Greece is bankrupt because it put itself into massive debt which was created through wasteful and outrageous government spending. Greece did zero investment in the private sector and instead gave the whole country jobs for life through the government where everyone gets 2 months a year paid vacation, pensions that comprise almost 90% of their salary etc.

Is the 2 months paid vacation true?

[Skip8282]

Where the hell is The Luke to talk about how great socialism is? 

[GigantorX]

Where the hell is The Luke to talk about how great socialism is? 

It's great if your unemployed.

[Fury]

Where the hell is The Luke to talk about how great socialism is? 

Take a look at Ireland right now. 17% unemployment.

[JBGRAY]

European-style Socialism has also contributed to unrecoverable declines in national birth rates(2.1 children per woman is considered sustainable to a population).  In all of Europe, only Muslim Albania bucks the trends.  High taxes, welfare, and liberalism have all been responsible for what will become a Muslim-majority continent.  It will only get worse as Europe continues to age, and more and more immigrants primarily Muslims from the Middle East and Africa pour in to make up the lack of younger people needed to sustain senior citizens.  This is a course that cannot be reversed.  Israel and to an extent Japan also fall in this category.

I'm sure in the coming years Europeans will be leaving in droves to settle in the US and Australia to escape growing Muslim influence, higher and higher taxes, and unsustainable social programs that will disappear.

[24KT]

European-style Socialism has also contributed to unrecoverable declines in national birth rates(2.1 children per woman is considered sustainable to a population).  In all of Europe, only Muslim Albania bucks the trends.  High taxes, welfare, and liberalism have all been responsible for what will become a Muslim-majority continent.  It will only get worse as Europe continues to age, and more and more immigrants primarily Muslims from the Middle East and Africa pour in to make up the lack of younger people needed to sustain senior citizens.  This is a course that cannot be reversed.  Israel and to an extent Japan also fall in this category.

I'm sure in the coming years Europeans will be leaving in droves to settle in the US and Australia to escape growing Muslim influence, higher and higher taxes, and unsustainable social programs that will disappear.

And here I thought it was due to more effective means of birth control, the emancipation of women, and increased infertility rates due to all the endocrine disruptors so prevalent in our modern societies.