07-16-2012, 03:39 PM
Avenger wrote:
So you thought you were entitle to 6 weeks of summer vacation and 3 hour lunch breaks? Yeah, your parents did but when it came to you, the party is over.
"Their drama will play out amid the somber realities of Europe's financial crisis, with profound implications for the future of young people everywhere. After all, the European Union is this interconnected world's biggest economy, and it's struggling badly.
Austerity is eroding an envied way of life. Long-cherished certainties about cradle-to-grave welfare are evaporating. As leaders scramble to extinguish one debt fire after another, the futures of ordinary people grow dimmer."
http://news.yahoo.com/class-2012-5-europ...nance.html
The irony is that all this trouble was brought on by that greatest of capitalist American tools...the subprime mortgage. Go ahead and trash talk the Europeans though, since that's your real agenda.