"Finance Minister Brian Lenihan's 2011 fiscal plan aims to lower the deficit from this year's estimated 32 percent of gross domestic product, a post-war European record. It was being unveiled and voted on Tuesday in parliament as protesters gathered in exceptionally icy weather outside. The day's first protester arrived at dawn and left under police custody. The unidentified man drove up in a cherry picker covered in anti-government placards, parked it near the parliament gates, then began blasting pop music from loudspeakers and throwing tennis balls from the elevated platform. Police tore down the protest signs and seized the vehicle. (...) "The banks have brought this country to its knees. We'll be paying for their mistakes for the rest of our lives," said Alice Dunleavy, 30, a civil servant joining a line of nervous cash-seekers outside a Bank of Ireland branch. The queue snaked along the icy sidewalk as customers found automated teller machines nationwide refusing to dispense currency -- a daylong software breakdown, the bank insisted, that sent fears and pulses racing.", Yahoo Finance.
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"Argentina started struggling to finance its debt in 1999 as the one-to-one peg to a rising dollar squeezed exporters and (...) Interim President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa announced the default in December 2001, after more than 25 people died in riots that toppled the government over spending cuts and the seizure of retirement savings.", Bloomberg News
Hoje vota-se o Orçamento de 2011 na Irlanda, apimentado pela utilização de algumas tácticas de terrorismo psicológico. Esperemos, pois, para ver o que sucede nas ruas após a votação final. Será que, tal como os argentinos se revoltaram contra a apropriação do Fundo de Pensões para safar o Estado, os irlandeses, neste caso a fim de o Estado safar os bancos, farão o mesmo?
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