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The Pirate Party Now the Biggest Party In Iceland
jrepin writes The Pirate Party now measures as the largest political party in Iceland, according to a new servey from the Icelandic market and research company MMR which regularly surveyes the support for the political parties in Iceland. Support for political parties and the government was surveyed in the period between the 13thand 18th of March. The results show that The Pirate Party has gained increased support. Now, support for The Pirate Party totals 23.9%, compared to their previous 12.8% in the last MMR survey.
If they manage to have a sane copyright law not too far in the future, that may be quite an economic advantage.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Iceland is increasingly sounding like one of the most democratic places in the world. The people really do seem to be in control.
For example, when their banks failed they decided not to bail them out, and rejected government plans to compensate other countries which would have screwed them. As such they have avoided crippling austerity. They did what was in their best interests and screwed the bankers and politicians who caused the mess. It's incredible.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
That being true, keep in mind that most of the money in Icelandic banks was from foreign depositors. It's easy to oppose the bailout in such a scenario.
Yes, they didn't bail out the banks, but in doing so they allowed someone in Iceland to steal £30,000 of my money.
Everyone knew the risk when investing in a foreign bank. The bank failed, you lost, sorry but you could have used a UK bank. Okay, the interest rate probably wouldn't have been as good, but that's how financial risk tends to work.
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Before you go blaming the young, perhaps you should look around at the state of the world and think long and hard about what the old have been doing with it for generations.
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Banks fail, even in places like Iceland, the UK and the US. Now, many countries have bodies set up to guarantee a certain amount of a given account's deposits, like the FDIC in the US will guarantee the first $250K in an account if the bank fails. But then again the US also has almost 400 million people and the largest economy in the world. It'd be a little insane to expect that Iceland with a population of less than 350,000 people could offer the same guarantees, especially on foreign deposits in privately operated banks. That would be privatizing profit, but socializing the risk, hardly fair.
There are always risks, you took one, it went badly. Such is life.
I agree... and my Republican friends agree.... and my Democrat friends agree... and my Libertarian friends agree... and my Green Party friend agrees.... so who disagrees? Oh yea, those guys who own our politicians