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Reuters: Greece to cut pensions over 1,200 Euros per month by 20%
Reuters ^
| Sept. 21, 2011
| Staff
Posted on 09/21/2011 9:42:16 AM PDT by library user
Reuters: Greece to cut pensions over 1,200 Euros per month by 20%
Just a headline for now.
Gotta be a lot of people collecting more than 1,200 Euros per month. My guess is that if the rioting hasn't started (again) it will shortly.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; default; economy; grease; greece; pensions; riots
To: library user
The socialists have run out of other people’s money.
Just like here in America.
To: library user
Fifty year old retirees forced to return to work!
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posted on
09/21/2011 9:46:43 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: library user
The Acropolis may not be long for this world.
To: library user
Unfortunately, all of the savings from this new austerity will go only to pay debt -- it won't be returned to the private sector where it might help business expand. Taxpayers will see no benefits from lower government spending, so the economy will continue to shrink.
Greece must default unless the EU is willing to inflate the Euro to the point of worthlessness. And it still may do that.
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posted on
09/21/2011 9:48:59 AM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
To: Dr. Ursus
Fifty year old retirees forced to return to work!
LOL!
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posted on
09/21/2011 9:50:04 AM PDT
by
ZX12R
(FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
To: library user
Rethink that. Youts' were doing the rioting. The government's response is to cut pensions.
Where are the pensioners?
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posted on
09/21/2011 9:54:08 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Dr. Ursus
Fifty year old retirees forced to return to work!It's really unkind of the Germans not to support the Greek leisurely lifestyle
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posted on
09/21/2011 9:55:11 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: library user
I feel a bit sorry for the fifty+ seniors that will have to look for a job. Its hard enough when your 35. Cant imagine the hell of looking when your approaching retirement age (whatever that will be...it wont be 50 anymore!)
To: Dr. Ursus
“Fifty year old retirees forced to return to work!”
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It should happen to the thousands of teachers, firefighters and “disabled” here.
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posted on
09/21/2011 10:03:45 AM PDT
by
EyeGuy
(2012: When the Levee Breaks)
To: library user
Coming to a California near you.
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posted on
09/21/2011 10:05:38 AM PDT
by
Spartan79
(I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.)
To: Dr. Ursus
I plam to retire next year at age 44.
To: library user
To: muawiyah
“Where are the pensioners?
They’re paying the youts to riot for them!
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posted on
09/21/2011 10:12:58 AM PDT
by
jimmyo57
To: Signalman
Here come the riots. But its young men who riot. The pensioners are retired from that.
It is why we won't have riots in California. Those the State are supporting (welfare, State workers, Medi-Cal, IHSS, etc), are fat females. They don't have enough gumption to riot, or even do a decent street protest.
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posted on
09/21/2011 10:18:44 AM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: Arkansas Tider
"I plam to retire next year at age 44."
Good! Learn a lot about solar energy (and other topics of self-sufficiency), and find a place in the middle of peaceful nowhere. The economy is going to completely crap sometime in the near future, and I'd rather let city folks have all of the excitement. Bet you'll be glad to get away from demo ranges (see my tagline). Boring!
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posted on
09/21/2011 11:10:40 AM PDT
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), Army NG, '89-' 96)
To: Signalman
Here come the riots.
I agree with your sentiment but actually there is no need to riot. Greece also passed dramatic property tax increases that need to be collected very soon(like November or so).
The Greeks cannot pay the tax whatsoever. No money for the govt means default for the currency and depression for the country. Riots won’t make a lick of difference.
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posted on
09/21/2011 6:04:26 PM PDT
by
cornfedcowboy
(Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
To: ZX12R
Fifty year old retirees forced to return to work!
Finding a job is the rest of the story, and it doesn’t end well.
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posted on
09/21/2011 6:06:13 PM PDT
by
cornfedcowboy
(Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
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