So what do you expect when you want to rebel in an environment of gun control?
You obviously plunder a fireworks warehouse.
Maybe they should try the Spanish equivalent of the Bastille.
It may be considered il-advised to battle heavy armor with bottle rockets.
The point I take away from that video beyond the theatre that is the dangerous practice of using bottle rockets to fire for effect…….. is that whatever the resource those miners were in the practice of mining was not being mined on that day or likely anytime soon.

Did anyone listen to the Obama supporters at his rally:
” Everybody in Cleveland that’s a minority got an Obamaphone”
Romney don’t gives us nothin’
Obama’s got my vote.”

Oh well! And it only used to take a chicken to buy a vote!
That’s inflation, I guess.

The Spanish government voted to access €3 billion from pension fund to pay for liabilities.
(Anything to avoid imposed austerity by asking for a bail-out; just kicking the can down the road!)
Wonder how much the civil unrest is costing.

Obama phones for everyone! These are the people that are deciding the fate of our country. Real scary. He knows if he can get half the people dependent on him he’s got their vote. People are trading liberty for “security.” They will lose both!

n addition to passing their vote on freeing up pension money for spending on “liabilities” the Spanish government also passed some spending cuts:
Government ministries saw their budgets slashed by 8.9 percent for next year, as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s battle to reduce one of the euro zone’s biggest deficits was made harder by falling tax revenues in a prolonged recession.

However, the conservative government said tax revenue would be higher in 2012 than it had been originally budgeted for and would grow 3.8 percent in next year from this year.

Spending cuts would be worth 0.77 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, while adjustment in revenue would be worth 0.56 percent of GDP.

“This is a crisis budget aimed at emerging from the crisis … In this budget there is a larger adjustment of spending than revenue,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria told a news conference after a marathon six-hour cabinet meeting.

Spain, the euro zone’s fourth largest economy, is at the centre of the crisis. Investors fear that Madrid cannot control its finances and that Rajoy does not have the political will to take all the necessary but unpopular measures.

Madrid is talking to Brussels about the terms of a possible European aid package that would trigger a European Central Bank bond-buying program and ease Madrid’s unsustainable borrowing costs.

Saenz de Santamaria said the government would included 43 new laws to reform the economy over the next six months.

It will also present reforms to the pension system by year-end.

Uncertainty over the timing of an aid request and divisions within the European Union over a plan to create a banking union sent the yield on Spain’s 10-year bond on Thursday to its highest since the ECB announced its bond-buying plan on September 6.
Their plan seems to be heading towards a major adjustment in spending rather than in revenues. In my opinion, this is what the US should be doing.
It is utterly amazing to me that governments never seem willing to kill programs (e.g. Obamaphones that have been given to over 12.5 million americans) and never seem to realize that at least 10% of absolute waste is contained in EVERY government program.
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