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Over 200,000 Greeks Apply For Humanitarian Crisis Relief
UPDATE: Greek Default Would Mean Poverty Trap, Dijsselbloem Tells VN
The Humanitarian Crisis Relief program was one of the top priorities of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition government and it was pushed forwards despite the Troika-Institutions objections. After the EU leaders Summit end of March, EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker had announced to release 2 billion euro to tackle the Greek humanitarian crisis. While it is not clear if Juncker sent the money or not, As KeepTalkingGreece reports, 212,897 Greeks have so far submitted requests to be part of the Humanitarian Crisis Relief Program.
The majority of the needy seek help with food, while a percentage seeks financial aid to pay rent and an even smaller percentage needs free electricity.
According to data from the Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Social Welfare, the number of people requesting on of the Program measures or combination of them were:
- requests relating to food subsidy 84,442
- rent allowance 2,610
- free of electricity reconnection & free electricity supply 1,569
- 42,893 people requested a combination of the three Program measures
- 59,918 people requested a combination of electricity and food aid
- 20,529 people requested a combination of rent allowance and food
- 936 requested free electricity and rent allowance
The deadline for submitting applications is Wednesday, May 20th 2015.
?he Program criteria aim to provide relief to Greece’s very poor with annual income between maximum €2,400 (single household) up to €6,000 (families with 4 depending members).
The Humanitarian Crisis Relief program was one of the top priorities of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition government and it was pushed forwards despite the Troika-Institutions objections. After the EU leaders Summit end of March, EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker had announced to release 2 billion euro to tackle the Greek humanitarian crisis.
PS I have no idea if Juncker sent the money or whether the Greek government tackles the problem on own resources. I also do not know if the program will be expanded to other income classes because a single household can hardly cover basic needs with an annual income of 3,000-4,000 euro (250 euro per month) or a family of four can live on 500 per month.
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We “lean-forward”-ed some folks.
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Throw those pathetic Greeks out of Europe already. It´s just a worthless third world country.
Of these 212k -- how many want to keep the EURO?
Well, the black jesus was just in Camden NJ, and says that is our(your) future also. He was so proud!!!!
They will have to make do until they institute their own Social Security Disability fund
DieselBomb actually says a DEFAULT would be a poverty trap?
As opposed to borrowing ever increasing amounts of DEBT to pay off previous DEBT that you cannot possibly pay off?
No, no fucking trap there.
Fucking cocksucker should be hanged by his entrails.
pods
I wonder how his incoming Bailin of the Greek banking system will help contribute to, or stop said poverty trap.
The IMF just called, they said: "The bus is on the way" (Pre-pare to get ran over) /s
Their impending crisis WON'T encourage other countries to want to leave the Euro,
it will be the ul;timate "lesson".
"1st world or 3rd world?"
Banker world.
Throw that pathetic wolferl out of the Zerohedge already. He's just a worthless broken record of a parrot saying the same thing over and over.
Saying the same things over and over again. Isn´t that what ZeroHedge is about?
This country caused this mess by selling toxic bonds to all these countries.
TBF - someone had to be on the other side of the transaction.
What about Portugal, Spain, and Italy? Their economic status is right on the heels of the Greeks. The EU is thinking about their "domino" effect if the Greeks default or leave the EU.
Our welfare recipients have a higher standard of living than their welfare recipients. Because we care more.
Our welfare recipients certainly outnumber theirs
Yeah, but it's your falut Bob. Or close to it. Good guess, seeing as how you're from Georgia. And with 3% of our population, ours (I mean, yours) certainly better. But proportionately ( proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional) theirs outnumber yours. Certainly.
Greece just needs to default and get it over with. Get out of the EU and do everything in house. Make the country a cheap tourist destination and be pro foreign investment like Switzerland.
Why aren’t we euthanizing these unproductive people? Damn, already. We’ve got too many here and now we'll pay for them there.
And you think posting your stupid remarks here is productive? Put yourself at the top of that euthanizing list.
You send the Greeks a few bucks to tide them over instead of roping all of us into the their problem.
Who is this "us"? I'm as curious as the previous guy. Are you German? With a name like that, I kinda doubt it. The rest of "us" have been loaning you millions and trillions of dollars for the past what... 35 years? All of a sudden you represent the bastion of fiscal responsibility? Oh my.
"Save the mud hutters."
"Save the mud hutters".
They gave the wolrd ' Pythagoras's theorem'.
True. And without that you would not have been able to level Bldg. 7 without hitting Bldgs.5,6 and 8.
(ZeroHedge should develop some sort of script that deletes excess lines from those who think <cr> is a thought. Just sayin')
The Greeks didn´t gave Pythagoras's theorem to the world. Just another Greek lie. "Pythagoras´s" theorem was used by the old Babylonians 1500 before Pythagoras already, proof of old cuneiform wedge writing in the British Museum.
Cannot, in a Keynesian world anything delfationary is forbidden
Snap cards will work for that.
Let them rob banks.
Pocket change is better than nothing.
The old timers who can't run can be look-outs.
Some free market initiative will do them some good.
UPDATE: Greek Default Would Mean Poverty Trap, Dijsselbloem Tells VN
Wrong, Greek default and the EU stops 'humanitarian aid' means separatist movements start to mobilize next. Greece breaking into separate city states is the worst possible outcome for the ECB. Forces them to bring NATO into the fray or cut Greece loose outright if they won't recognize a split as legit i.e. Crimea all over again.
If they keep up 'humanitarian aid' and Syriza doesn't distribute it to the masses, then separatist movements also start to mobilize next, default or not. Either way a split is coming. It is a question of can it be enforced. Cut the free shit and union payments/pensions the Greek people got nothing left to lose and everything to gain at that point.
Stop asking and start taking. After all, the bankers and financiers are already are.
-Liberty is a demand, tyranny is submission.
The next thing will be for the US to import all of these Greeks as 'refugees' and 'integrate' them into the 'system' meaning of course 'taxpayers will have to give their fair share.'
People will love this idea of yours. "Adopt a Greek".
I'll take a hot twenty year-old.
Send in sally struthers.
Clearly the greeks breed far too much, and have far too corrupt a society & government, and produce far too little
therefore
they must downsize their lifestyles, wages, pensions, etc to match their performance as a society.
They should implement a sever birth control program, then they will have fewer parasite greeks to cope with in the future.
And then zee Germans get there.
Few years ago, well before the 2008 crisis, I was going on a yearly basis to the Greek islands for vacation. I remember talking to the staff working in the hotels. There were some youngsters from Athens, coming during the season to work for around 600 EUR if I remember correctly, for very long hours. If they would not take this salary, Romanians or Bulgarians would. In one of those countries, I hear in a big retail shop ads to go to work in the shops of the chain in Greece while unemployment there is so high.
I like people like you, who in 99 % of the case never went in a country and make so peremptory statements. Go work for 600 EUR a month, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week in an hotel on a Greek island and then come back and say they are lazy. Idiot.
Joak, you're spoiling all the fun here. This is 15 mins. of fame for most of the lot here. Giving their armchair opinion and hoping someone cares.
I've been to Athens three times myself, but I didn't want to seem out of place here and throw that in. I would have then been ostracized. But for the record you're spot on.
OK. Back to the The Weakest Greek: A Crisis Analysis Reality Show.
You are an olympic class idiot - I have been to more than 200 countries, doing business development for American, European and Asian companies.
Unlike stupid tiny+simple-minded ideologically blind YOU, I went to these countries, including greece, to start and run businesses, NOT JUST to do the tourist jerk off in a resort hotel. Unlike moron too-much mouth YOU, I KNOW how impossible the greek society and government make the starting and running of a small business for entrepreneurs.
The greeks have to decide that if they want a better lifestyle, then they MUST EARN IT - not steal and defraud money from others under pretense of borrowing.
And I never said that the greeks are lazy - I said they breed too much,produce too little and are too corrupt.
Shit-for-brains diletante.
Ah so you are part of the 1 %, okay. No, you are even part of the 0.0000000000001 % who travelled to 200 countries and made business in every single region of the world. Impressive, but let me doubt about your records...Anyway I cannot care less if it's true or not, does not change anything to your garbage.
1) Yes you did not say lazy, you said they are parasites that should not be allowed to breed. Now, what's the difference ?
2) For the ideological point of view, I return to you your argument. I have a very modest company after 10 years working as an employee, I have seen both world (only in a couple of countries, your Highness). Never been unemployed, libertarian is the closest label that would characterize me... BUT, I can see when something is unfair, and the concrete situation I exposed, that you did not refute, shows also why Greece is in deep shit. A too strong currency (food, for example, cost more in a supermarket than in Germany... oh but why I mention that, you probably run supermarkets in both countries, so you know), wage dumping within the EU with workforce willing to work for peanuts (minimum salary is, for example, around 200 EUR in Bulgaria), not even talking about outside the EU immigration... We live in a time when big retailers control the economic space, made shut down most of the businesses and you talk like it's easy to start a business tomorrow and make a living. With what capital ?
3) Now, tell me also it's because of the Greeks than unemployment went from less than 10 % to more than 25 % in a few years. You say they must "earn it" ? Wake up Mr I Have Seen it all, the US are even more broke than Greece (Kotlifoff), as many other countries who are giving lessons to the country right now. The US have been living on the expense of the rest of the world for the last 40 years, and yet the Greek people should be the only one to pay for this Keynesian utopy ? And to add insult to injury, they should hear.
Whew. At least you didn't say they were lazy. You recommended partial genocide or infanticide, but OK, whatever.
So you've been to more than 200 countries - you've been to essentially every country in the world! I mean, if we discount Nauru, Tuvalu, and St. Kitts & Nevis. And Licktenstine... (damn, how is that SOB spelled...) Me thinks you need to focus on maybe 2-3 countries, 10 tops. Don't spread yourself too thin mate. What line of work anyway? I'm guessing UN Population Control or Vaccinations given your preoccupation with breeding habits of 200+ countries.
I know your rant wasn't directed at me, but sorry, couldn't resist. G'day mate.
Wow, joak must have struck a nerve there.
Actually I should not have ended up with "idiot". Anyway, it seems he went to open a business in St Kitts and Nevis to calm his nerves.
The Greek mentality is so throughly infused with class struggle theory, that there really is little hope for a better life. Greece does have some natural resources, but again, that socialistic mentality thwarts allowing much of a free enterprise ray of hope.
It's no small wonder they breed at all, you know, doing it backwards like they do.
You are aware how low Greek birth rates are, right? The banksters' plan for Europe---get Europeans to stop reproducing and fill the void with the contents of African and South Asian septic tanks---is well underway in Greece.
Our masters haven't had as much fun using a country as a guinea pig for social engineering experiments since early Soviet times.
soon to be our world before they're thru.
"Greek Default Would Mean Poverty Trap, Dijsselbloem..."
At first glance I thought that said, "Greek Default Would Mean Poverty Trap, Disembowlment..."
(Sometimes people with slight dyslexia see better than normal people)
1st world or 3rd world?
When I flew from Cape Town to Athens in 2010, it was very obvious that I had just arrived in the 3rd world. In the meantime it certainly got worse.
Meanwhile, BitGold (XAU) is on fire.
Greece is playing the West vs East game.
Slow and steady.
perhaps, just perhaps... the greeks can learn something from anthony quinn?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6K7OC-IKnA
Big deal. That's only 2% of the Greek population. In the USA 1/6 get food stamps. Greece has a long way to descend to reach that economic depth.
i'm glad yo said that...
,that said,... the greeks gave the civilized world democracy, coupled with the alphabet and the greatest philosophers of all`tyme...
Stay with the EU and Dijsselbloem Greece, they have better poverty traps.
If these Sheeple won't (or can't) even organize to march in overwhelming numbers, then they do not deserve anything.
Maybe extreme desperation will then force them to shed their sheep skin and revolt like normal human beings (who would've become active a long time ago).
Annual income of € 2,400
Is that before not paying taxes or after not paying taxes ?
Sorry Greeks.
That's nothing compared to the the number in the US that would legit qualify for this stuff.
While EU has united the European Oligarchs it has not done the same for the people .
Unbound immigration/invasion of the EU has and will further reduced wages and competition for low paid jobs increasing poverty.
Young graduates have to work for practically free in economies that supposedly are growing , while real wages and stasndards of living fall for the majority.
The cruelty dished out to the Greek people is perhaps easier for yyou to see , but big capital/establishment has planned the same fate for all of you.
Wages reduced, people frantic for work, the population atomized and dumbed-down. What's not to like for the 1%?
"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organised insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
Bertrand Russell
Greek women have a built-in birth control device - it's called an asshole....
Any deal which implies more austerity measures will mean nothing for the Greek people. Their problems will only continue. Only the government can spend/create the money necessary to end the depression. In order to do this they must leave the eurozone. Period. No matter how you slice it, big problems are coming to greece. The only decision the Greek people have to make is how they want the future of their country to be shaped: By The Greeks Or by Europe.
I suspect default would result in a poverty trap. Having your capital stock bombed to rubble by NATO for fear it might fall into Russian hands will be sure to worsen Greek poverty.
"and your chicks for free"
So basically German taxpayers are giving Syriza party members checks to finance Muslim invasion?