Chaos in socialist Euro Nations...

[amicus]

http://www.thestate.com/2010/09/29/1488931/anti-austerity-protests-sweep.html

BRUSSELS —

Tens of thousands of workers marched Wednesday through the streets of Europe, decrying the loss of jobs and benefits they fear will come with stinging austerity measures seeking to contain government debt.
Police fired shots in the air to disperse protesters at a general strike in Spain.

Greek bus and trolley drivers walked off the job, joined by doctors who staged a 24-hour strike at state hospitals. Unions claimed a crowd of 100,000 marched on European Union headquarters in Brussels.

From Ireland to Greece, workers united around the theme that they are victims of a debt crisis caused by reckless high-spending bankers undermining Europe's cherished welfare state. They complained of higher taxes, job cuts, soaring unemployment and smaller pensions…

Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2010/09/29/1488931/anti-austerity-protests-sweep.html#ixzz10zXfmHNy

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I draw attention to this issue because the current administration is attempting to 'Europeanize', the United States along progressive socialist guidelines and one should take the failures across Europe as harbingers of doom.

We can learn from the Euro failures: don't go down that 'Road to Serfdom', it doesn't work and leads, inevitably, to violence.

Amicus

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The Road to Serfdom is a book written by the Austrian-born economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek between 1940–1943, in which he "warned of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning,"[1] and in which he argues that the abandonment of individualism, liberalism, and freedom inevitably leads to socialist or fascist oppression and tyranny and the serfdom of the individual.)