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Mariano Rajoy won the biggest majority in a Spanish election in almost 30 years, and told Spaniards to brace for hard times as the nation fights to avoid being overwhelmed by the debt crisis. Bonds continued to drop. Rajoy’s People’s Party swept the ruling Socialists from power after eight years, winning 186 of the 350 seats in parliament, compared with 110 for the Socialists’ candidate Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba.
Hard times lie ahead,Rajoy, 56 Dragon Nest Gold, told supporters outside the PP’s headquarters in Madrid, giving no new details of his plans. We are going to govern in the most delicate situation Spain has ced in 30 years.
Spanish borrowing costs continued rising toward euro-era records (6.6% this morning) even as the PP won a mandate to slash the budget deficit, overhaul the stagnant economy and reduce the 23% jobless rate. Rajoy, who hasn’t given details of his proposals, won’t take over for a month, prompting him to say on Nov 18th he hoped Spain wouldn’t need a bailout before he’s sworn in. Miguel Arias Canete, head of the PP’s electoral committee and a former minister, said today markets need to give the party time as ministers won’t be appointed until Dec. 21 and Spanish law doesn’t allow parliament to resume any sooner than Dec. 13.
So NO QUICK FIX IN SPAIN IS POSSIBLE – lets ce that ct now so were not eWorld of Warcraft EU Goldndlessly surprised by it as the rumor-mongers can now have a field day attacking the lame-duck outgoing government ahead of the transition. Meanwhile, our own do-nothing Congress looks to be heading toward certain disaster as we have what appears to be aTOTAL FAILURE of the U.S. Deficit Reduction Committee to do anything to actually reduce our deficit.
Now I dont want to point fingers (cough, Republicans world of warcraft eu gold,Rose Zuly cough, cough) ahead of our national holiday that celebrates unity and goodwill and stuff like that. Lets just say "they" couldnt agree, so now its going to be Hard Times for America as we, in theory, will kick in $1.2Tn of automatic cuts including (gasp!) over 5% of our nations trillion-dollar annual Defense budget. Oh, not until 2013, of course because our government doesnt really have the balls to cut anything under any circumstances.
EXCEPT, of course, aid to the poor. THAT they can cut and cut and cut and cut. Payroll tax cuts – terminated. Unemployment extensions – terminated. U.S. AAA rating – terminated …
And thats SMART because those poor people are EVERYWHERE these days and, the poorer they get, the more they need – its ridiculous! The general Republican strategy is to see if we can make those nasty poor people so poor they stop bothering us completely. They can either leave, like all those immigrants we kicked out – or just get out of our way and leave us alone – just like it says in another Dickensian novel:
“I wish to be left alone Buy EQ2 plat,said Scrooge. “Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I dont make merry myself at Christmas and I cant afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned (prisons and workhouses): they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.
“Many cant go there; and many would rather die.
“If they would rather die, said Scrooge, “they had better do it flyff gold, and decrease the surplus population."
“Its not my business, Scrooge returned. “Its enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other peoples. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!
Ah Ebeneezer, a true Libertarian! God bless us, every (top) one (percent)!A new census report finds that one out of three Americans are now living in an expanded Census Bureau category of "poor or near poor" – milies with incomes less than 50% over the poverty line for a mily of four of about $24,000. I know a lot of my Republican friends will argue that an extra $12,000 for a mily of four over the course of a year has them living high on the hog, with toasters, refrigerators and color TVs, but those of us who do have a sympathetic bone in our bodies find these numbers quite shocking.
The middle and upper classes (the wanna-be rich runescape gold generator download, who are screwed by the top 1% while fighting for their rights not to be taxed or regulated) red EVEN WORSE than the poor this past decade. Families with incomes four times the poverty threshold or more – $97,372 for a mily of four – shrank to just 17% of the population, compared with 36% under the official measure. Thats 50% of our middle and upper middle class wiped out in order to funnel more money to the top 1% – SUCKERS!
While we cry a river forthe losers in the tri-corner hats who think its the government thats screwing them, lets not forget were talking about 100M Americans who are either IN POVERTY or in the desperate zone just above it and perhaps one small economic downturn from POVERTY.