Anyone remember Iceland?

[mosfeld]

Iceland currently owes 600 billion ISK, which is impossible to pay back, due to the irresponsibility of a few parasite bankers, who's debt turned into national debt for the entire nation due to bourgeois ruling-clique which nationalized them afterwards ("to save the banks"). The question naturally arises, should the working class, poor people, immigrants, etc, pay the debt of these parasites? The Alþingi (parliament) is an enemy of the people -- the people are against paying the debt, yet the Alþingi is unanimously united on the question whether or not the nation should pay this debt.

The two social-democrat parties which attained power after the "revolution" of 2009 completely sold out the people -- their empty rhetoric fooled the people. It was only an opportunistic method for attaining power.

Everyone is in despair, people shudder at the thought of the future. Nobody in the parliamentary represents the interests of the working class and there's currently no popular revolutionary alternative. It's an exceptionally depressing situation.

[Dimentio]

Iceland currently owes 600 billion ISK, which is impossible to pay back, due to the irresponsibility of a few parasite bankers, who's debt turned into national debt for the entire nation due to bourgeois ruling-clique which nationalized them afterwards ("to save the banks"). The question naturally arises, should the working class, poor people, immigrants, etc, pay the debt of these parasites? The Alþingi (parliament) is an enemy of the people -- the people are against paying the debt, yet the Alþingi is unanimously united on the question whether or not the nation should pay this debt.

The two social-democrat parties which attained power after the "revolution" of 2009 completely sold out the people -- their empty rhetoric fooled the people. It was only an opportunistic method for attaining power.

Everyone is in despair, people shudder at the thought of the future. Nobody in the parliamentary represents the interests of the working class and there's currently no popular revolutionary alternative. It's an exceptionally depressing situation.

In the next election, I would guess the Pseudo-Populist "Best Party" will win and might even form a majority government.

The Icelanders should surround the Althingi again.

[erupt]

Looks like a rather grim situation to me. In my eyes, a little unrest in 2011 is in style man; in other words, I can only express solidarity with the Icelandic masses, and hope something is accomplished for the people, not against them.

[mosfeld]

In the next election, I would guess the Pseudo-Populist "Best Party" will win and might even form a majority government.

The Icelanders should surround the Althingi again.

Lots of Icelanders considered voting for the "Best Party" to be the equivalent of turning in blank, so instead of doing that they voted for these clowns. There were protests against the Best Party due to its cut in music education, though.

The largest "surround the Alþingi" so far happened a while after the social-democrats got power (4 October, 2010)

http://www.benzo.is/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/20101004-_MG_1003.jpg

edit: Take a look at how the protesters decorated the Alþingi -- it's pretty :)

[chegitz guevara]

I thought the people of Iceland voted 93% to refuse to accept the banks obligations.

[mosfeld]

I thought the people of Iceland voted 93% to refuse to accept the banks obligations.

The Alþingi already agreed to pay, iirc.

[PhoenixAsh]

We are forced to use banks. People want their money to be safe. So governments guarantee the money. Unfotunately people do not realise that when governments guarantee the money the people still pay for it out of tax money.

Because of the bloody stupid free market assumption and prevailing notion that capitalists out for profit will "do the right thing" and self regulate means governments do not know what is happening. They still fuck up and rely on the government and tax money to bail them out.

In the situation with Iceland there is an other dimension....its not the people's money but the money of foreign people.

It sucks...but either regular people are fucked. If the money is not refunded then people abroad will lose money....but if it is the people of Iceland will lose money.

Its true evidence capitalism does not work.