Showing posts with label spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spain. Show all posts

Friday, October 21, 2011

Grease Fire or Greece Ire

“I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, but the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease”


Josh Billings

“We provide the grease that turns the wheels of capitalism,...” 

Robert Bright


Riots in the streets; fires and explosions.  Throngs of disenchanted pedestrians.  No this is not Egypt, Libya or Syria awakening to life during the Arab Spring.  It is southern Europe;  Greece to be more specific.  Yet the spark of the rage visible on the street is emblematic of a much bigger problem, much like throughout North Africa and Western Asia earlier this year.  In fact this problem isn't even just isolated to the Mediterranean region as evident by the whole "Occupy" movement that has taken hold here in the States and much throughout the Western Hemisphere.  What then?