It is just me or does that poster looks like it’s encouraging support for the Troika?
Rowsdower
Either that or its announcing the triumphant return of 2 Unlimited!
Mulch
So between this lot and the pro-lifers march, stay the feck out of the city tomorrow.
jonotti
Greece’s problems are largely the product of their economic poliices in the 80s and 90s. They had plenty of chances to create a sustainable political and economic state but they deliberately failed to do so.
There’s an old story going round about how the Greek Government in Athens introduced some tax on Swimming pools, everyone said they didn’t have one, so the government did some aerial photography and found out different.
Wayne.F
Other way around, a property with a pool was able to apply for tax exemptions, soon every house in Greece had one!! The law never specified a size etc
Only 300 people claimed they had a swimming pool, when over 16,000 actually did.
Paolo
Attacks on democracy are happening all of the time. When aggressive protesters go from slogans to spitting and attacking our elected representatives and our public servants they are being anti-democratic.
The fact that they don’t realise it is astonishing.
Kieran NYC
But da peeeeeeeeple, Joe!
Spaghetti Hoop
What do they say YES to?
Unfocussed protests are becoming wearisome.
Mister Mister
Absolute ass clowns. Seriously guys, you’re idiots.
Owen
+1 I thought this was a joke at first. Jumping on the over PC waggon.
NO!!! to coming up with viable alternatives or solutions themselves.
Dubloony
em, the troika are gone from here though we will be under supervision for a while.
With planned USC and tax cuts, next budget will be mildly expansionary.
Unemployment is down to 9.7%, employment at about 1.9m people. while still way off from tiger years, its a continual significant improvement.
There are significant problems areas of housing, childcare, economic inequality that need to be addressed.
doesn’t happen by hurling traffic cones around.
Paolo
This ^^^
Unemployment well below EU average now and we are still one of the wealthiest (per capita) countries in the EU. Sure, there is loads more to be done; we should be getting more tax from the wealthiest, ensuring that massive corporations pay the correct amount of tax and investing more in public services and infrastructure but the people of Greece (and most other EU countries) would take our situation in a heartbeat.
Rowsdower
The rate is only down because they’re cooking the books and young people are leaving.
How many of those newly employed people are on Jobsbridge schemes?
Dubloony
Yes there are people on jobsbridge. But income tax returns would suggest that more people are in fulltime jobs and paying tax than are partaking in jobsbridge.
No to endless austerity?
They’re just trying to balance the books, you know, the sensible thing.
apparently austerity just means you’re being mean for no reason
No to IW Protests!
No to Throwing Traffic Cones Around The Place Like Fupptards!
I’m in.
yeah with weather like these we need ice cream cones instead of traffic cones
this*….dammit where’s the edit button?
Musta been bad whiffy in your area.
Agree
“I am tired of living hand to mouth” said the 49 year old Greek pensioner.
What is the actual retirement age in Greece?
I’ve heard its pretty low, like 55 or something.
67; but much earlier in the public sector.
This explains it rather well:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/reasons-greece-economic-crisis/story?id=32130617
Average is 57
It’s 50 for our own TDs and Senators
It is just me or does that poster looks like it’s encouraging support for the Troika?
Either that or its announcing the triumphant return of 2 Unlimited!
So between this lot and the pro-lifers march, stay the feck out of the city tomorrow.
Greece’s problems are largely the product of their economic poliices in the 80s and 90s. They had plenty of chances to create a sustainable political and economic state but they deliberately failed to do so.
http://www.greekdefaultwatch.com/2011/04/are-we-all-greeks-now-greek-political.html
There’s an old story going round about how the Greek Government in Athens introduced some tax on Swimming pools, everyone said they didn’t have one, so the government did some aerial photography and found out different.
Other way around, a property with a pool was able to apply for tax exemptions, soon every house in Greece had one!! The law never specified a size etc
No, think I was right the first time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8585593/Greece-loses-15bn-a-year-to-tax-evasion.html
Only 300 people claimed they had a swimming pool, when over 16,000 actually did.
Attacks on democracy are happening all of the time. When aggressive protesters go from slogans to spitting and attacking our elected representatives and our public servants they are being anti-democratic.
The fact that they don’t realise it is astonishing.
But da peeeeeeeeple, Joe!
What do they say YES to?
Unfocussed protests are becoming wearisome.
Absolute ass clowns. Seriously guys, you’re idiots.
+1 I thought this was a joke at first. Jumping on the over PC waggon.
Nice short summary of the Greek situation by Robert Fisk
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/greece-debt-crisis-what-happened-to-democracy-when-its-a-case-of-vote-yes-or-else-10362374.html
NO!!! to coming up with viable alternatives or solutions themselves.
em, the troika are gone from here though we will be under supervision for a while.
With planned USC and tax cuts, next budget will be mildly expansionary.
Unemployment is down to 9.7%, employment at about 1.9m people. while still way off from tiger years, its a continual significant improvement.
There are significant problems areas of housing, childcare, economic inequality that need to be addressed.
doesn’t happen by hurling traffic cones around.
This ^^^
Unemployment well below EU average now and we are still one of the wealthiest (per capita) countries in the EU. Sure, there is loads more to be done; we should be getting more tax from the wealthiest, ensuring that massive corporations pay the correct amount of tax and investing more in public services and infrastructure but the people of Greece (and most other EU countries) would take our situation in a heartbeat.
The rate is only down because they’re cooking the books and young people are leaving.
Yes, people are leaving but the number of employed people here is increasing:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ireland/employed-persons
How many of those newly employed people are on Jobsbridge schemes?
Yes there are people on jobsbridge. But income tax returns would suggest that more people are in fulltime jobs and paying tax than are partaking in jobsbridge.
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/arthur-beesley-recovery-in-tax-receipts-driven-by-income-tax-1.2230101
Only 16% of those who emigrated were unemployed.
http://www.thejournal.ie/emigration-and-unemployment-in-ireland-1639006-Aug2014/
Can you expand a little on how they’re “Cooking” the books?
Snigger: A lot done, more to do.
“Shill! Fascist!”
Etc, etc. On Broadsheet, everything is the government and banks’ fault. No one has personal responsibility.