Get used to seeing this, and please notice that the protesters are part of the coercive government economy. Governments need to shrink. Once a government program goes into effect, it gets a constituency who will protest it’s reduction or removal. This is one of the reasons why governments, unlike businesses, only get bigger, regardless of whether their services are wanted.
Tens of thousands of protesters from around Europe have been marching across Brussels in a protest against spending cuts by some EU governments.
Other protests against austerity measures are being held in Greece, Italy, the Irish Republic and Latvia.
A general strike is also taking place in Spain, hitting transport and other public services.
Trade unions say EU workers may become the biggest victims of a financial crisis set off by bankers and traders.
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