To street protests and riots, of course. It's just a matter of time before the coming and necessary cuts we'll have to implement aren't just mentioned in theory but actually mandated by reality. The knee-jerk reaction of the far-left in
Madison and throughout Wisconsin (and spreading to other large, Democratic-controlled liberal burgs as well) to sensible economic reforms designed to save teacher's jobs by removing the influence of unnecessary public-sector unions is but a flash in the pan compared to what we're getting ready to witness. Just look
at what's happening this weekend to our ally, just across the pond in the United Kingdom (they are a bit further along in their debt crisis and the need for immediate management than we are, it seems)...
Organisers of a huge protest against the Government's public spending cuts tonight hailed the demonstration a "fantastic success" after hundreds of thousands of people joined the biggest event of its kind for over 20 years.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 teachers, nurses, firefighters, council and NHS workers, other public sector employees, students, pensioners and campaign groups from across the UK marched through central London to a rally where union officials and Labour leader Ed Miliband condemned the "brutal" cuts in jobs and services.
Violence flared away from the rally when a group of hundreds of activists, not connected with the union protest, clashed with police. They set off fireworks, threw paint and attacked shops in Oxford Street, Regent Street and Piccadilly.
Topshop and HSBC had their windows smashed, while paint and glass bottles were thrown at a Royal Bank of Scotland branch.
Covering their faces with scarves, they fought with police and disrupted traffic, throwing lightbulbs filled with ammonia at officers and lighting a fire.
Nine arrests were made and some police officers were injured.
UK Uncut, an anti-cuts direct action group, later occupied the Fortnum & Mason store in Piccadilly, claiming the firm had "dodged" paying taxes.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said he "bitterly regretted" the violence, adding that he hoped it would not detract from the massive anti-cuts protest.
He told the Press Association: "I don't think the activities of a few hundred people should take the focus away from the hundreds of thousands of people who have sent a powerful message to the Government today.
"Ministers should now seriously reconsider their whole strategy after today's demonstration. This has been Middle Britain speaking."
Mr Barber said unions would now step up pressure on the Government, especially MPs in their constituencies, and launch a series of protests next week in defence of the NHS."
London Ambulance Service said 30 people were treated for injuries throughout the day, 11 of whom were taken to hospital, ranging from assault to collapsing with illness.
Commander Bob Broadhurst said: "The main march has gone very well. Their estimates are 250,000 - maybe more - have come to central London and protested peacefully. That has gone as we expected.
Will merry old England find a way to make these necessary cuts no longer necessary, to calm half a million (so far) dirty socialists who've taken to the streets? If so, they can give us the necessary methodology that'll might work over here (printing money isn't a real solution, boys and girls, because that's just delaying the inevitable). Because we're very close, a year or two at most, to mandating these sorts of 'draconian' cuts that will cause
our dirty socialists to flock to the streets in protest, just as we've seen in the liberal hell-hole of Madison, Wisconsin.
Let's keep a close eye on these events in social welfare havens in Europe, shall we? Because we're attached to their coattails, and riding just... behind.
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