Spanish mayor fights austerity by stealing from grocery stores

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Mr Khan said:

mrstickball said:
Congrats.

What happens to the poor farmers that raised the crops? How will they get paid to continue to farm since the crops were stolen at the stores? How will the stores recoup the stolen cash?

That kind of mentality is exactly why they have a near-25% unemployment rate. For being the smartest continent, they sure do have a lot of economically impaired leaders.

I don't think it's meant to be a long-term thing. It's not the act itself so much as what it symbolizes: screw the rules, care about people. The bigger thing is his efforts to convince local governments to ignore debt repayments and not lay people off, or as he said "to think about those who are suffering more than about the banks."

Not to say that theft is ever justified, but the protest is more important.

So then they want them to steal money from their creditors by refusing payment on debts, eh? Its still theft. Imagine putting money in your bank, and not being able to withdraw it because someone refused to repay their loan which was given to them by your bank.