Re:

US website linked to that Daily Mail story with the hyperlink: "Germans feel humiliated, financially exploited. What could go wrong?"

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

Re:

I love how supposedly this bailout stabilizes Greece, and the banks buying the debt of smaller nations makes all the debt worries go magically away.

Sad thing is they used American dollars for that, the Fed authorized a trillion dollars in unsecured loans... yay world collapse!

Everything bad in the economy is now Obama's fault. Every job lost, all the debt, all the lost retirement funds. All Obama. Are you happy now? We all get to blame Obama!
Kemp currently not being responded to until he makes CONCISE posts.
Avogardo and Noir ignored by me for life so people know why I do not respond to them. (Informational)

Re:

Greece being Western? those guys are protesting because they don't want to lose their 13th and 14th months of payment.... and they want to stop working when they're 58. If they were really Western they'd have common sense and be thankful for the other countries bailing them out.

Maar doodslaan deed hij niet, want tussen droom en daad,
Staan wetten in de weg en praktische bezwaren,
En ook weemoedigheid, die niemand kan verklaren,
En die des avonds komt, wanneer men slapen gaat.

Re:

Over here some Union workers expect to retire after only 20 years of work, and get paid equal to their work for the remainder of their lives...

Everything bad in the economy is now Obama's fault. Every job lost, all the debt, all the lost retirement funds. All Obama. Are you happy now? We all get to blame Obama!
Kemp currently not being responded to until he makes CONCISE posts.
Avogardo and Noir ignored by me for life so people know why I do not respond to them. (Informational)

Re:

California state workers can get that deal sooner based on the total number of days worked.  So they earn a fat paycheck, they work overtime and get time and a half, and qualify for their pension ten years early--at their last annual earnings, so they bust out the overtime in that last year.  Then they get a pension and get another job too.  In fact the state government has a job classification just for rehiring pensioned state employees.

California has a $20 billion / year debt.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

Re:

lol