A hundred thousand people were rioting in the streets of Greece. Police were using tear gas and protesters were slinging molotov cocktails. I'm not sure what the firebombs were supposed to be good for, but so far 3 people have died.
Greece is a little different from the USA. Rioting is almost a national pastime there, whereas here it is still (for now) mostly frowned-upon. This is a deep cultural difference that goes back to America's Christianity and Greece's paganism. Greece is also very similar to the USA: the government likes to spend money it doesn't have, on handouts.
Finally they are smelling the coffee and imposing austerity measures, making life less easy for the moocher class in Greece. These measures will not be enough to prevent an economic collapse in Greece, even after a $145B bailout from the ECB.
America sneezes and $145B disappears. There is nobody out there who can bail out the USA. It may be too late, but we must try now to elect small-government politicians this November. Pretty much everyone who's been in office a couple of terms spends too much. Please, for the sake of the Republic: do your homework, donate to campaigns for the better candidates if you can, and for crying out loud go VOTE!
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