Am I the only one who noticed that the G20 protesters shown on the news, all of them, are extremely young? Like... the median age there has to be around 20
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Re: G20 Protests
anonymous
April 3 2009, 06:54:25 UTC
We employ the fuckers to run the damned country. Everybody with half a brain knew that the bubble had to burst sooner or later. In spain it was construction - eventually they were going to run out of land if nothing else - something had to give somewhere, sometime. We also have many rules and regulations, and we employ civil servants to enforce these rules and presidents and prime ministers and senators and whatever to make sure that these rules are followed and to make new ones to close the loopholes which the financial buggers find. Nobody WANTED the bubble to end (obviously) and they all wanted to get even richer, and people like you and me enjoyed the benefits of all that lovely cash floating around and cheap mortages and so on. we didn't get rich (at least I didn't) but some of the prosperity rubbed off. Our (or my) excuse is that I was busy - working. I employ people to watch over things (as I have said). Do I have to do their job as well? I can understand the temptation, but we pay these people to take a longer view, to control our excesses, to tell us that we shouldn't spend more money than we can possibly pay back.
It doesn't matter that the majority of these protesters are stupid undergrads, and that the rest of them are a bunch of whacked-out anarchists with a world-view at 90º to that of the rest of us. What matters is that we protest. And if you and I don't/won't do it, then it is again our fault for letting someone else do it for us. The surrendermonkeys are always rushing out into the streets, burning Spanish/English/German/whatever sheep/oranges/whatever in the trucks at the ports and they have the highest subsidies and benefits in the whole of Europe. The rest of the countries watch them, torn between hatred for the filthy scum who have just burnt a lorryload of cute little piglets on their way to the abattoir, and envy because burning spanish piggies means that the froggy gov't will protect the froggy piglet farmers. Protesting does work. It has worked all over the world and for many,many years. How did we manage to get decent(ish) working conditions, 5-day weeks, statutory holidays, etc? Our grandfathers and (to a lesser extent) fathers protested and marched and formed political parties. Nowadays we are all nice and comfy and we are letting it all get away. I've no sympathy at all. Apathetic bloody planet.
Everybody with half a brain knew that the bubble had to burst sooner or later. In spain it was construction - eventually they were going to run out of land if nothing else - something had to give somewhere, sometime.
We also have many rules and regulations, and we employ civil servants to enforce these rules and presidents and prime ministers and senators and whatever to make sure that these rules are followed and to make new ones to close the loopholes which the financial buggers find.
Nobody WANTED the bubble to end (obviously) and they all wanted to get even richer, and people like you and me enjoyed the benefits of all that lovely cash floating around and cheap mortages and so on. we didn't get rich (at least I didn't) but some of the prosperity rubbed off.
Our (or my) excuse is that I was busy - working. I employ people to watch over things (as I have said). Do I have to do their job as well?
I can understand the temptation, but we pay these people to take a longer view, to control our excesses, to tell us that we shouldn't spend more money than we can possibly pay back.
It doesn't matter that the majority of these protesters are stupid undergrads, and that the rest of them are a bunch of whacked-out anarchists with a world-view at 90º to that of the rest of us. What matters is that we protest. And if you and I don't/won't do it, then it is again our fault for letting someone else do it for us.
The surrendermonkeys are always rushing out into the streets, burning Spanish/English/German/whatever sheep/oranges/whatever in the trucks at the ports and they have the highest subsidies and benefits in the whole of Europe. The rest of the countries watch them, torn between hatred for the filthy scum who have just burnt a lorryload of cute little piglets on their way to the abattoir, and envy because burning spanish piggies means that the froggy gov't will protect the froggy piglet farmers.
Protesting does work. It has worked all over the world and for many,many years. How did we manage to get decent(ish) working conditions, 5-day weeks, statutory holidays, etc? Our grandfathers and (to a lesser extent) fathers protested and marched and formed political parties. Nowadays we are all nice and comfy and we are letting it all get away.
I've no sympathy at all. Apathetic bloody planet.
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