> Tangentially, what is the main reason for all the protest against the EU Austerity measures hit workers the hardest -- the people most responsible for creati

> Tangentially, what is the main reason for all the protest against the EU Austerity measures hit workers the hardest -- the people most responsible for creating economic wealth. To them, the EU is trying to take wealth and opportunity from the already-suffering average person to balance for mistakes and losses made by leaders and other nations. And the punishments have been pretty severe. I'm confident the level of austerity measures, if they faced the American people, would not go over peacefully (assuming we had much of a social net left to give up at this point).