{"id":660506,"date":"2010-02-10T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greeks-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-fiscal-restraint-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:48:00","slug":"the-greece-powder-keg-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/660506","title":{"rendered":"The Greece Powder Keg Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greeks-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-fiscal-restraint-2010-2\/greeks-take-to-the-street-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b72fd9c00000000006526dd-313-235\/greece-strike.jpg?resize=313%2C235\" border=\"0\" alt=\"greece strike\" width=\"313\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t expect Greeks to swallow their medicine willingly.<\/p>\n<p>Civil servants in the massive default risk country launched a 24-hour strike today to protest government cutbacks. Mob chants included &#8220;We won&#8217;t pay for their crisis!&#8221; and &#8220;Not one euro to be sacrificed to the bankers!&#8221; according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/world\/europe\/11greece.html?ref=global-home\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Strikes are a beloved tradition in many European countries, but they do make financial reform hard. Recently, Iceland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fitch-immediately-downgrades-iceland-as-president-vetoes-bank-payback-2010-1\">refused payment <\/a>on a financial crisis debt for fear of angering the population.<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic controllers, customs and tax officials, hospital doctors and  schoolteachers are involved in Greece&#8217;s strike. Needless to say, that means basically no economic progress in Greece today.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greeks-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-fiscal-restraint-2010-2\/greeks-take-to-the-street-1\">See the Greeks taking to the street &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greeks-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-fiscal-restraint-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-the-real-reason-germany-is-so-hesitant-about-bailling-out-greece-2010-2\">Here&#8217;s The REAL Reason Germany Is So Hesitant About Bailing Out Greece<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/roubini-greek-bail-out-is-a-step-in-right-direction-2010-2\">Roubini: The Greece Bailout Isn&#8217;t Enough, Ultimately Europe Is So Screwed That It Will Need The IMF<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/darkness-falls-over-europe-as-greek-chaos-rules-the-night-2010-2\">Darkness Falls Over A Europe In Chaos, As German, Swedish, And UK Leaders Have Different Ideas For Solving Greece<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/KIdK6ajOh4I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t expect Greeks to swallow their medicine willingly. Civil servants in the massive default risk country launched a 24-hour strike today to protest government cutbacks. Mob chants included &#8220;We won&#8217;t pay for their crisis!&#8221; and &#8220;Not one euro to be sacrificed to the bankers!&#8221; according to the New York Times. Strikes are a beloved tradition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LPk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}