Mez
Yes more like being used(and im against), as for being a colony, look at what happened in Greece and Ireland and the next one is Spain... This world is not ruled anymore by politicians(where's Obama?) but by Technocratic Manipulators. After watching the excellent film/documentary Inside Job i realize the power is less and less in Washington, London, Beijing...nope.
Its in Davos, in some filthy hands in wall street(not all) being washed in the Caymans or other laundry money paradise and whetever that strange group called Bilderberg semi-secretly meets from time to time.

The general strike was in response to proposed government spending cuts. Portugal has subsidized its Euro-welfare lifestyle by borrowing. The government claims its national debt is 86% of GDP, but the Portuguese opposition party says the true figure is actually 122%. And that's just the government. Private debt is 239% of GDP.

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Originally posted by Mezcalhead:
And this has nothing to do with Wall Street:

The general strike was in response to proposed government spending cuts. Portugal has subsidized its Euro-welfare lifestyle by borrowing. The government claims its national debt is 86% of GDP, but the Portuguese opposition party says the true figure is actually 122%. And that's just the government. Private debt is 239% of GDP.

Don't worry pal, the US is not far behind Portugal. We don't want to cut any of our entitlements that we can no longer afford... so its a downward spiral.

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