Sunday, February 07, 2010

How Unions Destroyed Greece; Union Greed and Gall in Nevada; Union Protests In Utah; Taxes on Food in Phoenix

The New York Times has an interesting article Is Debt Trashing the Euro? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/busin ... anted=1&em It could easily be subtitled How Unions Destroyed Greece. The same thing is happening here. Let's take a look.

DIMITRIS DAMIANIDIS is a high school teacher and a strong supporter of Greece’s socialist government. But that won’t deter him from going on strike with hundreds of thousands of other public sector workers next week to fight for the 28,000-euro pension that he expects to receive annually after he turns 60 next year.

“Why should I as a worker pay for the errors in policies?â€