# Re Greek unions & protesters violently fighting EU austerity plan - What's their solution? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 5, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-greek-unions-protesters-violently-fighting-eu-austerity-plan-whats-their-solution/538353 "2010-05-05T00:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-greek-unions-protesters-violently-fighting-eu-austerity-plan-whats-their-solution/538353/45 "2010-05-07T06:05:05Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Assuming that to be true (not that I buy it), so what? They are a bunch of scum; the thuggish, ignorant, bigoted, idiotic, incoherent fringe of America politics. And it’s not the Democrats who are pandering to them. Maybe in your world demonstrating against runaway spending is idiotic but not for the bipartisan group of Tea Party protesters. There are still people who recognize waste when then see it. My city just received 10 hybrid buses from the “stimulus money”. They cost $540,000 apiece. This is a city with ELECTRIC buses. Who’s paying for them? Your city? My state got millions of dollars of “stimulus money” to build a hi-speed rail that will not have enough service to pay for itself. Who’s going to pay for it? Your state? If every city, town and state got a piece of this package who is left to pay for it? It’s borrowed money. The events in Greece are happening because it’s collapsing in on itself. There is nothing stopping that from happening in the United States. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-greek-unions-protesters-violently-fighting-eu-austerity-plan-whats-their-solution/538353)._