Photos Of The Greece Riots

A wounded protester is led away from clashes with riot police as protesters tried to prevent deputies from reaching the Greek parliament in central Athens on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Greek deputies are to vote Wednesday on a deeply unpopular austerity bill that has provoked days of rioting in the streets of Athens, with the result of the vote determining whether the country can avoid a potentially disastrous default in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece is deep in debt and the whole economy is reported as being on the verge of collapse. The Greek Parliament passed an austerity Bill that raises taxes and cuts pensions. The citizens are the ones who are going to suffer under the fallout from this measure.

Financial debt is created by inept government economic handling and those who created the mess aren’t the ones who have to live with the consequences. That burden usually falls to the people, the citizens who trusted their officials to properly do the jobs they were in place to do. As Republicans in America look to do damage to Medicare to relieve spending and debt in the face of gross mismanagement of tax revenues and government, corporate, wall street and special interest manipulation and corruption this scenario should seem familiar.

What needs to be done is to deflate those outside interests and put the burden on those that caused the problem in the first place.

America this is your possible future.

Protesters shout slogans as riot police stand in Athens' Syntagma square, Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Youths hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police in central Athens on Tuesday as a general strike against new austerity measures brought the country to a standstill. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Sources:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/45-more-photos-of-the-riots-in-greece

Jaylon Carter

Jaylon Carter is a blogger, social media marketing consultant, former Congressional Campaign Media & Communications Director, national labor union vice block leader, and a Hip Hop artist who performs under the stage name Timid (@timidmc).