Ari Berman, The Nation Magazine, joins Thom Hartmann. Massive labor strikes rocked the UK today - as public workers took to the streets to protest ongoing austerity measures. Last year - the Conservative government passed a slew of austerity measures - laying off public workers - cutting back on pensions - and ending social welfare programs - claiming it was what needed to happen to get the British economy back on track. A year later - the British economy still hasn't grown - and now the government is calling for more austerity. In response - over two million civil servants are protesting. Schools, hospitals, airports, courts, and government buildings are all being affected by the strike - which is the largest in over a generation in the UK since the "Winter of Discontent." According to the Guardian - 19000 out of 21700 schools in England and Wales are closed or partially closed - and roughly 6000 non-urgent operations have been cancelled. The Occupy London movement made their voice heard today too - storming the offices of mining company Xstrata - and targeting the higest paid CEO in the UK They made it all the way to the road of the buiolding and hung a banner that read "All power to the 99 percent" before police regained control. So where did the British government go wrong - and where is this sort of social unrest that we're seeing spring up all around the world taking us?
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