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Cheers.

...but large numbers of middle class professional too.

That would be interesting. My understanding is that most of them don't pay their taxes anyway which is part of the problem.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/23/us-greece-taxes-idUSTRE75M6R320110623

That is an interesting article, what grabs my attention most about it though is that the cited sources all seem to deflect blame away from themselves / their areas of interests. The restaurant owner blames civil servants, one union leader says the government is unfairly targeting working people, another states categorically that middle class professionals are to lame for dodging taxes and the young father just says it's not my fault. No one is saying what to me seems to be most common sense thing which is; As a country we have lived outside our means for a long time, the result of this is we are now flat broke. We must pull together and find a way to get back on our feet or face the consequences.

^ very good summary.

Typical human MO. You see the same things, here - don't make cuts in our industry, the global financial crisis is all down to them (possibly those other people there too) but not me.

And from reading that, if the wealthy (and middle class) are going to dodge their taxes, maybe they're taxing in the wrong way. Perhaps an addtiional goods tax?

^Zombie-di

looks like they'e stuck her shriveled head on top of that women from mars attacks

I saw something similar to that on the front cover of a newspaper the other day, a close-up of her face imagining how she might look now. It's deeply odd. No point wasting time on 'what-if's', there's no end to it. She may well have deeply hated Kate Middleton and wanted to scratch her eyes out.

^ bit of luck - Zombie Di vs Middleton grudge match special

and wanted to scratch her eyes out.

zombie-die

I said deeply twice up there, bit repetitive.

I said zombie-di twice up there, bit repetitive.

right

I said deeply twice up there, bit repetitive.

Maybe you just want to do dead Di deeply.

she was my idol

That front page belongs in Epic Fail.

That hubcap still stuck to her head is gross.

That front page belongs in Epic Fail.

I don't like win/fail as categories, they're too reductive. I'm working on my own system

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjknq6_live-streaming-yyyyyy-yyyyyyy-yyyyyyy-yyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy-yyyyy-2y_news#from=embed&start=55

If anyone is interested, live streaming of Greek riots.. (it's not very interesting)

As long a green lanes stays open I'm happy

disappointed to not see any plates being smashed

On the bright side, for people outside of Greece anyway........ Cheap holidays for the foreseeable future. It mayn't all be doom and gloom, if the economy becomes as bad as predicted, then wages will be LOW and Greece will still have a well educated population, this could make it attractive to multinationals who want to find a new manufacturing base for technically advanced, high end products similar to the large manufacturing plants that Mercedes operates in South Africa. If this were the case, the benefits would still be limited as profits generated by such endeavours would move out of country however there would at least be tax generation for the government from the associated wages.

Just what Greece needs, another set of multinational companies dodging their taxes and keeping their employees on the breadline. You're also being rather presumptuous that these highly educated people would wish to stay within Greece for breadline wages. International labour markets tend to dictate otherwise.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770

So to sum up, he believes these strikes are wrong.

Does he realise he's being filmed and this isn't just soundbites for a newspaper article?

That's embarrassing. Have I Got News For You would make hay with it.

I bet nobody wanted to sit next to him at school.