Posted on 10/03/2011 5:33:07 PM PDT by dynachrome
Deputy Education Minister Evi Christofilopoulou suggested that police might be mobilized to break up hundreds of sit-ins at schools on Monday a few hours after hundreds of pupils protesting cutbacks clashed with riot officers in central Athens
----------------------------------------------------Christofilopoulou added that a controversial scheme, finalized by the government on Monday, to put 30,000 civil servants on labor standby status, which would see them receiving a heavily docked wage for 12 months before early retirement or dismissal, would also apply to schoolteachers.
Unionists accused the ministry of “artificially inflating teacher numbers.”
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more riots to follow.
Break up sit-ins? How are they going to tell the difference between the protesters and the other shiftless Greeks just going about their daily business.
On the other hand, the students really should be picketing the German Embassy because that is the nation-state that's demanding the workers start working.
You really did say it better than me.
Apparently they have money for cops
Just
knocking ‘em down with firehoses and rubber bullets would at least create a few jobs in the security industry...
>>Break up sit-ins? How are they going to tell the difference between the protesters and the other shiftless Greeks just going about their daily business.<<
The protesters will be awake.
Simply lock up every toilet and water source within 10 blocks.
Free ouzo would calm ‘em down!
sounds like it’s basically unions vs. civilized humanity from one corner of the world to another.
IMHO, it is the culture of “instant gratification” which has taken hold. Everyone wants a nice car and a flat screen TV and Starbucks everyday, NOW! No one wants to grind it out, as it were, anymore. If you have no talent, you had better learn something useful to society. Education is fine, but what does a degree in ethnic studies get you? I wish I had learned more trade/voc stuff. ( I have a business degree, but no one wanted to hire a drugged out hippie type at the time, haha. So I learned other stuff after awhile ) </rant>
like little children..the liberal mind amazes me...they need to escalate the protests to where they hold their breath and turn blue...Then they can get their money!...../s
after more thought..maybe the liberal philosophy if pushed to the extreme, can work for them!...Have the Govt provide the means of holding their breath till they reach room temperature...that would go a long ways in solving the no money problem on an individual basis
I agree, but where are they wrong?
The protesters are mostly government employees...1 in 3 in Greece work for the government.
Frying pan to fire. Trying marxism, again, ain’t gonna work.
Communist goal number 19:
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
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