Thread: Governments growing nervous at increased social tensions

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Governments growing nervous at increased social tensions

JAMIE SMYTH

EUROPEAN DIARY: A continent-wide sense of injustice leaves Europe vulnerable to an explosion of unrest

ONE MILLION workers on the streets of France, wildcat strikes in Britain, rioting in Greece and the Baltic republics and sit-in protests by glass workers in Waterford: social unrest is spreading throughout Europe and no one knows where it is all going to end.

Last week the worst economic recession in at least 30 years claimed its first political victim in Europe when on Monday Iceland’s beleaguered prime minister Geir Haarde tendered his resignation following weeks of street protests. The collapse of the country’s banking system, which has shredded the value of the krona, driven interest rates to 18 per cent and unemployment to 8 per cent, put paid to his Conservative-led coalition.

By Thursday one million workers were protesting on the streets of Paris, angry that they are losing their jobs while bankers are being bailed out. “I’m tired and frozen after waiting half an hour on the platform,â€

And across the pond, we the sheeple quietly follow our messiah into ruin. Am I the only one who also wants to go out into the streets and yell at the top of my lungs 'NO MORE!!!'? I am refraining from doing that simply because I am afraid I am the only one and that I would be locked up for 72 hours of psych evaluations.

(NOTE: I do feel Obama inherited this problem, it has been building since before he joined the Senate, but I also believe he is making it worse not better)

Hopefully Obama will take notice!!

[quote]As more families in Europe face hardship the sense of injustice is growing. Words coined during the dark days of the 1930s such as “banksterâ€