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It took me a while to figure out why this is news. Is it the fact that socialists lied? Common knowledge, isn't it? Ours (Democrats) do it every time they open their mouths. Is it because they ruined another economy? *yawn* That's what socialist do. Toward the end I figured out what makes this story newsworthy; a socialist admitted both lying and destroying the economy.

Now that's news.

'We Screwed Up - A Lot'
Updated: 00:01, Tuesday September 19, 2006

Protesters have clashed with police in Hungary over the prime minister's admission in a leaked recording that the government had lied about the economy.

Demonstrators in the capital Budapest have called for Socialist PM Ferenc Gyurcsany to resign over the revelations.

Police used tear gas and water cannon on dozens of mostly young men - many with shaved heads. Some stormed the main entrance of the state television's HQ.

But reports said the officers ejected them from the building. The activists were demanding to be allowed to put their demands forward in a live broadcast.

Prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany Mr Gyurcsany's remarks were recorded on a tape at a closed meeting in late May, weeks after the government became the first in post-communist Hungary to win re-election.

He was heard saying the economy had been kept afloat only through "divine providence, the abundance of cash in the world economy and hundreds of tricks."

He added: "We screwed up. Not a little, a lot. No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have."

He reportedly added: "I almost died when for a year and a half we had to pretend we were governing. Instead, we lied morning, evening and night."