{"id":358198,"date":"2010-02-24T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-public-backs-the-austerity-plan-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:03:00","slug":"the-public-backs-the-austerity-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358198","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Public Backs The Austerity Plan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b85393900000000002d4b23-305-230\/greece-strike-no-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"greece strike no. 2\" width=\"305\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Greece&#8217;s finance minister George Papaconstantinou said last week that  Greece is in a &#8220;terrible mess&#8221; but his government has the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100215-705062.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\">backing  of the public<\/a> to push through its  package of austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CAYQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fgreeks-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-fiscal-restraint-2010-2&amp;ei=_j6FS6KBC8fNlAedxYnYAQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFUMm5qtXYWYgzMjlNW9GVDhs4DKQ&amp;sig2=PMXIjafMuOo2Trq4HCEt3w\">The first round<\/a> of strikes were mostly peaceful: marches and rallies of the young and old.<\/p>\n<p>But today the strikes turned violent.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation unions are taking part, which means no  one&#8217;s getting in or out of Greece.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/the-public-backs-the-austerity-plan-2010-2\/-1\">See The Strike Turn Violent &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-public-backs-the-austerity-plan-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/half-of-greece-work-force-strikes-2010-2\">Now Over Half Of Greece Has Stopped Working In A Bid to Save The Economy From Market Forces<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-greece-disaster-proves-that-the-euro-was-a-bad-idea-2010-2\">The Greece Disaster Proves That The Euro Was A Bad Idea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greeces-four-largest-banks-downgraded-by-fitch-2010-2\">Greece&#8217;s Four Largest Banks Downgraded By Fitch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ZUuvVcuiYA4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece&#8217;s finance minister George Papaconstantinou said last week that Greece is in a &#8220;terrible mess&#8221; but his government has the backing of the public to push through its package of austerity measures. Wrong. The first round of strikes were mostly peaceful: marches and rallies of the young and old. But today the strikes turned violent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}