Protests over the last three months in Bulgaria have included several self-immolations meant to draw attention to corruption among political elites with ties to organized crime. But few expect Sunday's parliamentary elections to change much.
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov was already forced to resign in February in response to pressure from the street. Two weeks ago, a scandal broke that also weighs heavily on the former premier. A wiretapped conversation reveals that he apparently tried to cover up a corruption case. Bulgaria will vote for a new parliament this Sunday, but according to a poll by the news agency Novinite, some 41 percent of citizens are convinced that the election will be rigged. Indeed, there is little hope that it will bring real change. Borisov is running again, but the opposition is seen as being equally corrupt.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/protests-grow-in-bulgaria-against-political-corruption-a-898682.htmlIn the US, I read about suicides rising among the middle aged, veterans, middle class...
It seems that life is good if you're a banker, drug addict on welfare, generational welfare recipient...
When does the cronyism, nepotism, and favoritism end?
Americans get stuck pay for global banking corruption/failure/deal making/special interests. When politicians speak, it's 'our financial system' and 'we' need to save it. Thus, the common people get straddled with generational debt and bankers and big business seem to get endless bailouts and billions in bonuses. For some reason, the bonuses never make it to 'we the people', 'we the people' just get the rising TSUNAMI of debt.
How long before the tsunami hits Main Street?
Big global businesses get bailouts and green energy grants and the end result seems to be job migration to China and elsewhere.
When does DC start working for Main Street?
When do Americans earning a dollar get to take a dollar home? No more money is borrowed in the name of 'we the people' and debt forced onto future generations? When is the money clawed back?
Why isn't the IRS and the wiretapping, phone call data used to find all the missing money from the collapse of 2008? All those failed banks? Fraud loans?
Why doesn't anything in DC work for working everyday people? The laws seem to be written by special interests, big banks/companies/unions/illegal aliens.
What is wrong with this picture?
just my humble opinions