Greek governments appeared to be protecting alleged tax-dodgers, making the public angry.
That this will make a nationalist Chinese public angry is not much of an argument against doing so.
"Public angry over expenses" is a statement of the obvious, and MPs are used to being unpopular.
Numbers like these have made the public angry and fuelled popular protests, in a bid to reverse the logic of a system that privileges money over social matters.
The alternative is a downward spiral of cuts, inadequate services,and not only a demoralised civil service but also a disillusioned public angry about deteriorating services.
This follows an earlier $616m settlement of civil claims against the fund.To a public angry at banks for their role in the financial crisis, this may all seem like reasonable retribution.
The threat today is not from classic military dictatorship, but more subtle forms of autocracy -- often endorsed by a public angry at the corruption and ineptitude of its democratic political system.
Still, the government is closer than it has been in years to military action of some sort, embarrassed into acting by a public angry over mounting deaths and what is seen as American inaction.
