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Europe’s cities are now witnessing almost daily worker demonstrations resulting from the threat of their pay being frozen or pensions kerbed. Perhaps they’re angered of seeing jobs lost abroad because they are unable to compete with far eastern workers, who may live in shacks and dine on little else other than rice. The protesters are correct in my view, when they say that they are being asked to pay the price for the misdemeanours of others in the banking and speculative investment world (emanating from Wall Street), whilst earning preposterous amounts of private wealth, have caused their countries financial demise, bringing them in large part to their current situation.
Meanwhile, back in the USA, the blinkered people are also stirring. The Republican Party (the political wing of exploitative global business and oligarchy [smart money]) have subverted the “Tea Party”, originally against Bush’s big bank bailouts, to become a more business orientated anti government grouping. The manipulation of USA public opinion is most creditable. Unlike most Europeans, who know where the true blame should be focused, the USA’s protesters increasingly believe that all of all of their problems are the evil work of their President Barack Hussein Obama. I suppose with a name like that he must bring public distrust, even if his IQ, personal achievement and articulation is far superior to the last USA President. The fact that he has only been in office for less than two years isn’t a consideration. Sarah Palin is being weaned as a forthcoming Presidential candidate. If the USA votes in this lady at the next President, I believe that Europeans with a political maturity of greater than a fourteen year old will cease to believe in the creditability of the USA (if they haven’t already) and will despair about where this ailing nation will take us all.
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