Protests across Europe

This hasn't been in our news much, but there have been protests across Europe all week. In country after country, institutions and governments are going broke and having to cut back state and government employees, thus causing strikes and protests by the worker bees who cannot fend for themselves, having allowed themselves to be made slave to their state. Read at The Independent:

Ireland is very different from almost all the other fringe European societies in that it remains an inherently competitive economy. There is a huge debt hangover and there is no getting away from that. But if it were not for the property excesses and the related indebtedness, Ireland would be in pretty good shape

Governments have to cut their budgets, so they are laying off workers. Anticipating this, the unions have, of course, organized the drones to march on various capitols. Irish Times:

It was part of a series of protests organised by the European trade union movement against austerity measures being implemented in a number of countries. 

A roundup of events across Europe can be found here at this UK website, whose name is somewhat unusual:

Chaos reigned in many of Europe’s major cities yesterday as strikes against across-the-board EU and government cuts turned violent.

Cities were brought to a standstill are roads were blocked by protestors and police clashed with angry unionists. European Union buildings in Brusselswere targeted by 100,000 marchers and protests took place in Greece, Latvia, Ireland, Italy andPortugal. 

Why are we reporting this? Is this in our future?