Spain unemployment now 5m (22.8%), Highest in industrialised world.

[Mr Khan]

routsounmanman said:

Mr Khan said:

routsounmanman said:
Greece is ATM at 21% (official) and still rapidly rising. And if the new austerity measures (economy killers I say) come through today, woohoo, we'll be no.1

Some of the Papademos cabinet resigned over the proposals, didn't they? It's safe to say the Greeks are determined to resist austerity

Wouldn't you if you already had your income cut by more than 40-50% already while our useless polititians got raises? You have to understand that most people here in Greece, know that we all had our share in our deficits, but only few bear the burden still, thus the riots.

And what would you do if aforementioned polititians did nothing for the best of your country? We have the strongest negotiation "card" in the world ATM. A Greek disorderly default could potentialy destroy the entire global economic system! Wouldn't you haggle more?

I'm not saying that we should blackmail the EU, but the measures could have been a bit smoother and fair overall. On  top of that, all of Europe tags us as useless, lazy and EU cancer!

I don't disagree with you. While it is clear that change is necessary, the people all running around cheering "let's go austerity!" seem to forget what it's like to lose your job (or be like me, a well-qualified college student looking down the barrel of a grim fricking job market). There is a human price to neoliberalism, and that price always seems to fall upon those who can least afford it, rather than the well-off.