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"Pourquoi paierions-nous ? Pour les dettes ? Mais ce ne sont pas les nôtres, ce sont celles des politiciens et du capital. Nous n'avons pas besoin de toutes ces armes que nous vendent les Français et les Allemands", explique le syndicaliste.
"Pourquoi paierions-nous ? Pour les dettes ? Mais ce ne sont pas les nôtres, ce sont celles des politiciens et du capital. Nous n'avons pas besoin de toutes ces armes que nous vendent les Français et les Allemands", explique le syndicaliste.
Why should we pay? For the debts? But they aren't ours, they belong to the politicians and investors. We don't need all the weapons that the French and Germans sell us . . . .
These are the words of a Greek union member explaining why, after paying all his taxes for years, he will refuse to pay the additional taxes imposed by the wealthy European countries until the current government resigns.
The working people of Greece are in a state of economic revolt. Who can blame them?
Is Greece our future? Are we already there or is there still time for Congress and Wall Street to wake up and take responsibility for the crisis that THEY, AND THEY ALONE CAUSED?
We Americans at the bottom of the economic pyramid paid all of our taxes including our payroll taxes. We did absolutely nothing to cause our economic crisis. Let the rich pay for the mess they caused.
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