Petition Tag - recession

Καλούμε τους Έλληνες πολίτες αφού ενημερωθούν, με την παρακάτω πλήρως αναρτημένη επερώτηση που έχει ηδη κατατεθεί στον Πρόεδρο της Ελληνικής Βουλής (ΣΥΝΤ.69), από τον Δημήτριο Αντωνίου, την 04-09- 2012 με αρ. πρωτ.1972/04-09-2012 να την συνυπογράψουν.

Είναι το ελάχιστο που μπορούμε να κάνουμε αντιδρώντας στην συγκάλυψη των εθνοπροδοτών και διεφθαρμένων πολιτικών που καταχράστηκαν την εμπιστοσύνη του Ελληνικού λαού, προς όφελος των ξένων κατακτητών και διαφθορέων, υπερασπιζόμενοι το πολίτευμα και τα δικαιώματα των πολιτών της Χώρας.

Η συλλογή των υπογραφών θα κατατεθεί στον Πρόεδρο της βουλής.

προηγήθηκε αίτηση προς την βουλή του ιδίου με το ίδιο θέμα η οποία έτυχε αρνητικής απάντησης.
προβολή της απαράδεκτης απάντσης εκ μέρους της Βουλής στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο.

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Έχουμε μείνει άφωνοι από την τραγική αύξηση των αυτοκτονίων στην χώρα μας. Διαβάζουμε συνέχεια κάθε μέρα και για καινούργιες αυτοκτονίες. Ας αναλάβουμε δράση, εμείς οι απλοί πολίτες αυτής της χώρας.

Πρώτα με την πρόθεση μας να σταματήσει αυτή η σφαγή του έθνους μας. Δεύτερον να υπογράψουμε όλοι μαζι απαιτώντας από την κυβέρνηση να κάνει δημόσιες ανακοινώσεις προστατεύοντας τους πολίτες της, να της θυμίσουμε ότι εξαιτίας των πολιτών υπάρχει κυβέρνηση, και να λάβει μέτρα για την ανακούφιση των συμπολιτών μας που υποφέρουν στην ψυχή τους για να φτάσουν να δώσουν τέλος στην γηϊνη ύπαρξη τους.

Υπάρχουν προτάσεις απλές και εύκολες ακόμα και με εθελοντές που θα μπορούσε να κάνει το Ελληνικό κράτος με σκοπό να προστατεύσει και να εκπαιδεύσει τους πολίτες του.

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Προς την κυβέρνηση της Ελλλάδος και τον κύριο Πρωθυπουργό προσωπικά

Κύριοι,

Σε λίγες μέρες ολοκληρώνεται ένας χρόνος από την προσφυγή της χώρας στο μηχανισμό στήριξης που τέθηκε από την τρόικα. Κατά τα συμφωνημένα με το ΔΝΤ και παρά τις προεκλογικές σας δεσμεύσεις, επιτεθήκατε στα χαμηλότερα εισοδήματα και επιβάλατε λιτότητα που βύθισε τη χώρα στον πανικό.

Ενόψει των κρίσιμων διαπραγματεύσεων στις Βρυξέλλες, αισθανόμαστε ντροπή για την υποχωρητικότητα και την ατολμία που δείξατε απέναντι στους δανειστές μας, την αδυναμία συντονισμού σας, καθώς και για την αδυναμία του πολιτικού κόσμου γενικότερα να σταθεί στο ύψος των περιστάσεων.

Λαμβανομένου υπ'όψιν ότι

Παρά τις βάρβαρες περικοπές στους μισθούς και τις συντάξεις, η Ελλάδα εξακολουθεί να βρίσκεται στο χείλος της χρεωκοπίας. Σε αυτές τις τραγικές στιγμές για τον τόπο, συνεχίζετε να αποζημιώνετε την εκλογική σας πελατεία με δημόσιο χρήμα το οποίο θα μπορούσε να πηγαίνει στις πραγματικά ευπαθείς κοινωνικές ομάδες ή αλλιώς να εξοικονομηθεί.

Λαμβανομένου υπ'όψιν ότι

Η κομματοκρατία είναι για την Ελλάδα ότι ήταν τα καθεστώτα για τον αραβικό κόσμο, που τα γκρέμισε με εξεγέρσεις και τώρα διεκδικεί την ελευθερία του. Επίσης, ότι οι πελατειακές σχέσεις είναι, μαζί με την οικονομική κατάρρευση, οι κύριοι λόγοι για τους οποίους οι Έλληνες, και ειδικά οι νέοι, φεύγουν στο εξωτερικό και εγκαταλείπουν την πατρίδα.

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As Parents and community members we firmly believe financial literacy is a critical skill that should be taught in our schools.

A person who purposefully signs a name other than his/her own to this petition or who signs more than once for the same issue at one election or signs when not a legally registered Montana voter is subject to a $500.00 fine, 6 months in jail or both.

(Go to http://www.gopetition.us/online/37326.html if you believe that the sexual content in the Human Sexuality Component is improper.)

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Credit ratings are normally assigned by private Agencies on demand of the issuers. However, when the issuers and investors are very Big (for instance States) the rating Agencies play a role too big for their capacity to remain impartial. The values of such ratings has been widely questioned after the 2008 financial crisis.

Let’s read a few rows in Wikipedia : if an Agency cuts the rating of bonds issued by a State indebted on long term, this gives rise on short term to an increase of the interest applied to the bonds, that is an increase of the State financial burden. The issuer might be compelled to sell off his real estates or goods to reduce declassifying .

This is just what we saw in the last days of April 2010. After an exhausting negotiation, the Euro Countries went (April 26) on approval, together with the IMF, of a credit to Greece amounting to 45 billion Euro per year (110 billions over 3 years) at acceptable interest, in connection with an adequate commitment of the Greek government.

The day after, Standard & Poor’s declassified the Greek bonds to BB+ (Junk bonds), so these were sold in the Stock Exchanges at an interest rate not less than 10%. The greek government protested with the Agency, but it was too late.

Some days after, a new declassifying operation was repeated on bonds of Spain and Portugal. Successively Moody's recalled that also Italy and United Kingdom show public debts and annual deficits too high respect the EU standards.

After the losses suffered by the Greek bonds, some economists observed that the credit needed by Greece to avoid default will amount to about 70 billion Euro per year. This means that Greece will give back not only the 45 billions, but also other 25 billions to some creditors which speculated, thanks to a suspect rating, on a financial operation between two parties. In other words, the system of free market “regulated” by private rating agencies presents an extra cost which compels the indebted countries to return much more than the original debt.

The question arising from these facts is the same that troubled the governments during the 2008 financial crisis: Why some private Agencies have the power to trigger the financial default of the bank’s system and even of the States ?

This power is unacceptable because only the States have the democratic power to take decisions about politics and macro-economics. A solution has been immediately foreseen by EU governments through the institution of an European rating Agency. A collateral action to avoid conflict of interest between private operators, has been made by the US Senate which on May 14 established that in the emission of derivative products the choice of the rating agency pertains to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). However much work needs to be done in regulating the global financial market.

Let’s remember that two years ago many industrialised countries discovered that a great financial bubble (a US Court is just inquiring about its origin) triggered the default of banks, followed by a general economic recession centered in the G20 area.

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Woolston has suffered more than most local shopping centres as a result of the current recession. Despite this, when £3 million was announced to help struggling shopping centres, Woolston received nothing.

Furthermore, the secretary of state responsible for this is your local Labour MP John Denham. Royston Smith is calling for Woolston to receive its fair share of help through the crisis.

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UK taxpayers have seen billions of pounds of their hard-earned cash poured into the banking system and watched as government ministers claim thousands more for second homes and other questionable ‘expenses’. Now we call on the government to return the favour and assist taxpayers, workers and families who have fallen on hard times due to no fault of their own.

Unemployment is 2 million and rising. As the economic crisis deepens, many unemployed workers face the loss of their savings and homes as they struggle to survive on the £64.30 a week Jobseeker’s Allowance for the over 25s. Despite paying into the National Insurance system – often for decades – many have been shocked to find they aren’t eligible to receive the full £64.30 a week or additional payments, such as housing benefit, because their partners are in work. Others are forced to commute many miles to ‘sign on’ to receive payments which barely cover their travel costs. The Jobseekers’ Allowance makes no allowances either for the cost of travel to job interviews or other expenses incurred in the job seeking process.

In addition, Jobseekers complain that Jobcentre Plus staff are often poorly trained and unsympathetic and that the system is currently incapable of helping white collar workers find skilled positions or providing relevant training schemes.

The system has to change.

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Request that Senator Arlen Specter resign from the Republican Party:

United States Senator Arlen Specter, Republican from Pennsylvania, was one of only three Republicans in both houses of congress to support the Democrats' Economic Stimulus Bill. Without the votes of those three republican senators, this bill, which wastefully spends an unprecedented $787 billion, could not have passed the senate. Senator Specter supported this bill in opposition to the distinctly expressed desires of his republican constituents. And, since January 2000, Sen. Specter has voted against the position of the GOP more than 600 times.

In addition to his support for the stimulus bill, Senator Specter has opposed the Republican Party on the following issues and more:

- The troop surge in Iraq

- The impeachment trial of President Clinton

- Restoring habeas corpus for suspected terrorists

- Lifting restrictions on stem cell research

- A constitutional amendment banning gay marriage

- "Card Check," a bill which would deny workers the right to a secret ballot regarding unionization

- Pro-life, anti-abortion legislation

Due to Senator Specter's repeated and harmful opposition to republican positions, it is necessary for the Republican National Committee to demand that Senator Specter resign his membership in the Republican Party.

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The Financial Services Authority (F.S.A.)is the independent watchdog that regulates all financial services.

How then, is the U.K. in one of the biggest financial downturns ever recorded (a recession, as it has now been officially declared), when the FSA is in place to supposedly stop this sort of thing happening ?

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Given these facts:

1) That our US economy is in the worst recession in decades, which looks likely to continue through 2009 [1],

2) That Congress is asking financial and automotive industry executives to take pay cuts and reduce excessive compensation [2],

3) That over 400,000 American workers PER MONTH have lost their jobs during the past three months [3], and

4) That Congress is awarding itself an automatic 2.8% annual pay raise ($4700) effective January 1, 2009 in the midst of all this turmoil [4],


We, the American people, ask you, the members of Congress, to take the necessary steps to rescind the pay raise you will receive on Jan. 1, 2009, either proactively or retroactively. If a consensus cannot be reached, we ask that individual Senators and Representatives give back your raises as a show of good faith and your sincere concern for the future of our American economy.

Doing so would not only showcase your resolve in remedying our overburdened economy, but also that you indeed care about the welfare of the American people. It will show you recognize the plight of millions of Americans who cannot find work and cannot pay their bills. Most importantly, it will show that you put the concerns of the American people above your own.

Please consider this request in the spirit of unity which it is intended. To overcome these troubled times, we must all work together, sacrifice together, to strengthen each other and our country.

My name is Lynn Fuston and I make this request on behalf of all American citizens.


[1] http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/03/news/economy/nabe_survey/index.htm

[2] http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/21/pelosi-reid-detail-demands-from-auto-companies

[3] http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_econindicators_jobspict_20081205

[4] http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Members-Congress-Due-Award-Themselves/story.aspx?guid=%7B02CE0BA2-256E-4D38-BC83-D2E9697D32B9%7D

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Now this Year in school we're going to lose 5 teachers and children won't be able to go out and play school matches and there's going to be more students in every class so it is going to be even harder to learn.

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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who is a former CEO of Goldman Sachs, is proposing to commit at least $700 billion of taxpayer dollars to buy "non-performing" -- that is, bad -- securities and debts from private corporations, including foreign banks, who are at risk due to the effects of the assumption of unwise risk.

This deal would also give Paulson and his successors unchecked, "non-reviewable" powers that prevent their actions from being challenged in any court of law.

These plans are un-American, dangerous, and will not work.

Please visit http://EndBailouts.org for more details and resources.

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Are we in danger of talking ourselves into a negative global situation?

Are we already in a recession?

I think the media made this happen. If you agree sign up and be counted!

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