Spanish Mayor Begins Anti-Austerity Campaign

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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/08/27-0

The mayor of a town in Spain has launched a campaign against the government's austerity measures, which he says have hit the poor the hardest amid soaring unemployment rates.

Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo, the mayor of Marinaleda, is joining labour unions in an effort to urge politicians to refrain from imposing government demands for budgest cuts and to stop sacking public sector workers.

[JRLeft]

1. Austerity is a budget to protect the rich.

[sabrina 1]

2. About time. Austerity, the very word should have caused riots, well it did actually.

What Austerity means is to squeeze every last dime out of the Working Class to pay for the debts of the Wall Street Gamblers who crashed the world's economy. I cannot believe they have gotten away with this for so long.

Good for this mayor, it's time for the people to take over. The morons running Europe right now, are the morons who caused the problem, and like thieves who are trying to cover their crimes, they've been destroying every country they are operating in, and with such arrogance, to try to get as much out of the people as they can so as not to have to pay their own debts.

Before long the people all over the world are going to rise up. Suicides caused by Austerity are at an all time high in Europe. Who are these people who have failed so spectacularly and yet, they are still in charge? It's unbelievable really. Austerity has failed.

Iceland which rejected these policies, has a lesson for the rest of Europe. Go out and do what they did, arrest your crooked politicians and bankers and start bailing out Main Street. Do not bail out crooks. Iceland is doing great right now, the only country in Europe which took matters into its own hands and did the only sensible thing to do, arrest the crooks, take back the money they stole, and start creating growth, not austerity.

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3. Don't forget the Irish... They are working to resist paying the debts of the bankers their too...

It’s a bit rich: why austerity for the poor only?
Thursday, August 09, 2012
In response to Mr Kevin McCarthy’s letter (Aug 6) about the Greek government implementing austerity measures: We know there must be cuts and taxes to reduce our deficit; we know that governmental and administrative waste (‘advisers,’ junkets, expenses, golden handshakes, inflated salaries and pensions) should be eliminated.
They won’t be.

Fine Gael, in their election manifesto, talked about burning bond-holders. Did they do it? They were also against an introduction of a house tax, because "an annual recurring tax on the family home is unfair". Did they stand by that statement?
http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/letters/its-a-bit-rich-why-austerity-for-the-poor-only-203509.html