'We're Not Paying For Your Crisis!'

[katty]

more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,610099,00.html

GERMAN ANTI-GLOBALIZATION CAMPAIGNER

'We're Not Paying For Your Crisis!'
Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls. Trade unions and globalization-critical protesters are planning demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt under the banner: "We're not paying for your crisis." Alexis Passadakis, 31, an activist from the group Attac, tells SPIEGEL what's wrong with the system.

ttac activists stage a protest action at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany: "Disarm the Financial Markets!"
SPIEGEL: What do you mean with your battle cry, "We're not paying for your crisis"? Don't you want to pay taxes anymore?

Passadakis: We believe that the cost of the economic crisis should be footed by those who profited most from globalization.

SPIEGEL: As a leading exporter, Germany too has profited.

Passadakis: No, the majority of people have not earned much from the boom -- instead they have had to deal with restraint in their wage agreements. The rich, on the other hand, have seen strong increases in their wealth. So it is only fair that they should pay extra duties.

[acmavm]

1. Damn, sounds like the Predator Class just can't get a break. Anywhere.

[KansDem]

2. "Predator Class" I like that! Maybe a remake of the movie is in order?

Predator (2009)

Give me your f*cking money and remember, this is a cigar and not a gun!

[bemildred]

3. Why do we need well-paid incompetent weasels to run things?

If this crisis, one of a long string of such crises, is all they can offer, why do we need them? Is it really true that giving 90% of the take to such self-serving assholes is the best we can hope for?