Thing are heating up in Ireland too.
A preview of what will happen here when Obama bankrupts the USA.
Then the riots will follow.
Sheep, going off a cliff.
DR
Sunday 25 November 2012
by Our Foreign Desk
About 10,000 protesters marched through Dublin on Saturday in opposition to Ireland's sixth straight austerity budget.
The capital's O'Connell Street was filled with anti-tax campaigners, trade unionists and community groups with some marchers donning ghostly white masks and Santa hats.
Many bore banners denouncing government leaders and vowing not to pay any tax rises.
A rider on horseback in a white mask and black cape depicting death led the parade, while the horse had a "no to austerity" banner round its neck.
Placards carried by protesters portrayed Irish leaders as serpents with pleas to St Patrick to return and banish them from Ireland.
Marchers donned Santa hats, some bearing the slogan "No no no!" rather than ho ho ho, and warned that the government wanted to steal Christmas.
Ireland faces more protests in the build up to the December 5 budget when the government is due to unveil a further €3.5 billion (£2.8bn) in spending cuts and tax rises.
Ireland has already pledged to keep imposing annual public service cuts and tax rises until at least 2015 as part of the price it is paying the IMF and other lenders in its demanded austerity programme.
Ireland's economy plunged in 2008 as credit-fueled property speculation collapsed, forcing Ireland to nationalise five of its six banks.
Ireland faced the risk of national bankruptcy in 2010 when it was forced to negotiate an international bailout.
The last of the €67.5bn (£55bn) borrowed from the EU and IMF is due to be spent next year, by which time Ireland is supposed to be borrowing normally again on bond markets.
"We need to play our part in the growing movement of resistance across Europe," said Irish Dail member Richard Boyd Barrett, who is part a small socialist pressure group called People Before Profit.
"And we have to bring this government down if they continue with this disastrous policy of austerity."
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In economics, austerity refers to a policy of deficit-cutting by lowering spending via a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided. Austerity policies are often used by governments to try to reduce their deficit spending and are sometimes coupled with increases in taxes to demonstrate long-term fiscal solvency to creditors.
You calling me a Clapper now ? Jack Webb was great.Originally Posted by Lady Quagga
What a great show Dragnet was. Check this video out LQ.
A bell (old Saxon: bellan, to bawl or bellow is a simple sound-making device. The bell is a percussion instrument and an idiophone. Its form is usually a hollow, cup-shaped acoustic resonator, which vibrates upon being struck. The striking implement can be a tongue suspended within the bell, known as a clapper, a separate mallet or hammer, or in small bells a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell.
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