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Pictures From A Greek Soup Kitchen
While we mock and ridicule the corrupt and often times purposefully obtuse Greek politicians, we often ignore the human cost in the equation (and so does the rest of the world). Unfortunately this is becoming an ever greater issue for a country that is rapidly devolving to sub-3rd world status. Because while we have previously discussed the miserable conditions for a country where ever more people are sliding out of the middle class and into poverty status, in reality it is far worse. Spiegel has profiled the new Misery in Athens where "aid workers and soup kitchens in Athens are struggling to provide for the city's "new poor." Since the economic crisis has taken hold, poverty has taken hold among Greece's middle class. And suicide rates have nearly doubled." Just like in the US, those in misery are growing exponentially, but the last thing anyone needs is a reminder of their existence. Yet perhaps they should, because when the Bastille moment hits, the spark to overthrow tyranny, especially that masking under the guise of democracy, will come precisely from the slums of the impoverished and disenfranchised, from those who have nothing left to lose. In Greece, with 28% of the population living "at risk of poverty or social exclusion" this moment may arrive any second.
Spiegel's report from an Athens soup kitchen must be read by all who think things like these no longer exist in modern EU countries:
If this crisis has reached Piraeus, then it's done a good job of hiding itself. Even on this cold February night, the luxury cars are lined up outside the chic, waterfront fish restaurants in this port suburb of Athens. But Leonidas Koutikas knows where to look. Not even 50 meters off the main promenade, around two corners, misery is everywhere. Koutikas finds a family of five living behind a tangled tent that has been attached to the wall of an apartment building.
Koutikas and his colleagues from the aid organization Klimaka are expected. They hand out their care packages here every night. "Each day the list of those in need gets longer," Koutikas says. He speaks from experience. Until recently, the 48-year-old was sleeping on the streets himself.
Athens has always had a problem with homelessness, like any other major city. But the financial and debt crises have led poverty to slowly but surely grow out of control here. In 2011, there were 20 percent more registered homeless people than the year before. Depending on the season, that number can be as high as 25,000. The soup kitchens in Athens are complaining of record demand, with 15 percent more people in need of free meals.
As yet, there are no reliable estimates as to the numbers of the "new poor," because the appropriate studies are lacking. Families can also mitigate the severity of many financial crashes. Those who have lost their jobs or their homes find accommodations with relatives before they ever make it into official statistics. That is especially true of the youngest victims of the financial crisis. "But with the government's many new austerity measures, along with the tax burdens, it is questionable how long the families can continue doing that," says Stamatogiannopoulou.
What is clear is that in 2010, almost 28 percent of Greeks, or 3.03 million people, lived at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to numbers released last week by the EU statistical agency Eurostat. With the recession only having deepened since, it seems likely that the number of poor Greeks rose in 2011.
where personal tragedies...
Manos, who would prefer not to give his last name, is among the Greek poor. The man, in his mid-50's, is one of dozens of people to come to the Aghia Zoni church on a recent morning. "There are always more," says Father Immanuel, who has organized meals for the poor for 20 years. "Up until one or two years ago, we knew every face here. Today things are much different," he says.
The people in the church's courtyard are waiting for the cook Georgia to finally open the door. She has been at work in her kitchen in the church's basement for hours. When she opens the heavy steel door, there is a great rush to get in. Manos, too, gets noodle soup and bread. As he is eating, he tells a common story of losing his apartment and his job. He was born in lower-middle class Kypseli, an Athens neighborhood, and now he is sleeping in the cold on park benches. "I am a good salesman, honestly," he says. "I can sell anything." He then asks his German guest for his email address, and a few hours later he sends his resume with the request to pass it on. He hasn't given up.
And surging suicides...
The psychologist Eleni Bekiari knows what dark thoughts the crisis and its consequences have brought to Athenians. She staffs Klimaka's telephone number "1018." It is a 24-hour suicide hotline, and its statistics are clear. In 2010, there were about 2,500 calls made to the number. In 2011, there were twice as many. "Most of those who call us are women," she says. "On the other hand, it's usually the men who end up taking their lives."
Greece traditionally has one of the lowest suicide rates in Europe, but the increase has been dramatic. Since the beginning of the crisis, the suicide rate has almost doubled. In 2011, there were almost six suicides per 100,000 citizens. When the callers to the suicide hotline are asked for their reasons for suicidal thoughts, Bekiari says, they often answer with two words: the crisis.
...give the best grade for the 10 year failed experiment at a forced currency union and Keynesian lunacy taken to the nth degree.
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Dying of cholera isn't a lie.
"Thoughtful dialogues are a luxury of this life."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDqWAmvCf0o
Why am I the only one here who doesnt call people names?
I call that a tap out. Welcome to ZH.
Dont stop cause I tap out.
Why? I wouldnt.
Point's already been made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZqV0Sc-5bE
Because you are a step n fetchit troll, clown. All ya got to do is read the bullshit! 5 Weeks don't give you the privlierge of bullshit. Milestones
Too busy killing those pesky Indians.
BTW It is never thought as of genecide when it is the same race. Even, if everyone is killed by the winning side.
Here is some history for you:
On September 20, 1565, Menéndez de Avilés attacked Fort Caroline, killing most of the French Huguenot soldiers defending it.[12] Two years later, Dominique de Gourgues recaptured the settlement from the Spanish and slaughtered all of the Spanish defenders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Florida
Yes, sort of.
But the King was a different person from US citizens.
One thing to remember for example:
Black loyalists got their freedom when they fought for theKing.
Black dont know their name were enslaved when they fought for US citizens.
Different people.
This time, the leak happens in favour of US citizens.
The king sure drank a heck of a lot of tea.
He was a notorious tea-blobber.
Blobbing-up tea is the eternal nature of kings.
Central Africa?... The Congo?...
Good luck with that!
moving to the congo? one of my favorite flicks is mosquito coast..if you can make do with what you have at hand its essential.. when i am up on my land hiking around, working and i find huge termite nests, crayfish, lizards, turkeys etc.. i always know if i was just got left out there with nothing i could survive. live like a heathen eating bugs and acorns yes but what you mentioned about the guys on the BC coast living good during the depression seems very true to me... having access to the ocean during the tumultuous times that await us will be a huge benefit to obtaining protein
Ouspensky. Haven't heard his name in 45 years. What a Proustian moment.
Nothing keeps people from being inventive and ambitious.
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Made me laugh. Because US citizens have lacked inventivity and ambition when it comes to consumption?
Yes, something keeps, that something is the lack of.
Greece has to cut down on it consumption so it frees resources that can be consumed in higher levels of the US world order.
The lack of is what is going to hinder.
Nothing keeps people from being inventive and ambitious.
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Except Chinese citizens, who regularly and routinely pirate intellectual property and steal discoveries from the Western world without a second thought.
Such is the thieving, running dog rapacious nature of roadside-shitting Chinese citizenism.
It does not stop the innovation and the ambition.
Kicking the can...
It does not stop the innovation and the ambition.
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Nor does it stop retarded Chinese citizens from online trolling.
Such is the eternal nature of dishonest and autistic Chinese citizenism citizens.
shut the fuck up wouldja
AnAnonymous said:
This is a truism. The innovation in plunder and the thieving ambition of Chinese citizen citizenism is unstoppable. In this manner, it's running dog imperialism nature is eternal.
I will take my supposed (and mythical) "US citizenism" over Anymouse's antheap-living rabbit-breeding public-spitting nose-picking roadside-shitting Tibet-invading Taiwan-threatening sweatshop-slaving enforced-abortion eternally blobbing-up Chinese citizenism cesspoolism any day!
One would think that the stench of Chinese citizen cesspoolism would make Chinese cesspoolism citizens too ill to consume their $100 per serving shark fin soup luxury. Yet, the eternal consumption and eternal greed of Chinese citizen cesspoolism continues to blob up daily without cessation, built on the forced labor of their Tibetan slaves.
The world becomes more appalled as the stench of Chinese citizen cesspoolism spreads unabated.
The string has run out--That is an outrageous a run I have seen on this blog!! Love it! Milestones
economics1996
"get back to work pandering to tourist"
The Blonde looks good enough to earn some money pandering.
Old guy on the stairs just seems ro be drunk.
REVOLUTION BITCHEZZZZZ!
Let them eat Vasilopita............
Is that cake or shit?
So eliminating the minimum wage is supposed to cure something?
Yes, unemployment. Econ 101, price floors create surpluses.
still a believer eh?
Economics 101 that does not work anywhere.
Stupid right-wing propaganda.
Go to Somalia. No state, no laws, no income. You'll be happy there.
As long as you will fail to understand Peak Oil and falling EROI you'll keep making such stupid comments.
Economics 101 does not work.
Silly people.
Ah, yes, US citizenism is not flawed.
US citizenism would be the perfect system if human beings were not flawed.
Chinese citizenism would be the perfect system if human beings all desired to spit and pick their noses in public, casually shit on the roadsides like dogs, and breed like rabbits until they were all living in environmentally degraded toxic antheaps.
Chinese citizenism: giving running dogs a bad name since 2000 BC.
HaHaHa---keep pouring it on. Funny, if it weren't so pitiful. Milestones
Human beings aren't flawed though. They're perfect at what they do, which is to manipulate the world around them for their own personal benefit as individuals. Being that you're on a forum full of people who are idealogically opposed to you trying to convince them that you're right I'd think you would understand this. Of course I'm not even sure if you read or speak english at this point since you never seem to directly address people's criticisms of your beliefs.
Yes, overpopulation.
Says who, the IMF man? That worked very well in the past!
Eliminate minimum wage?? Sorry, but we need to make it higher. You don't help anyone by making people work like slaves. This is EXACTLY what the bankers want : slaves. We need to make minimum wage much higher and tell the bankers to go f*ck themselves.
Stupid libertarians... Should move to Somalia and leave us alone.
"EVERY HAND IS A WINNER, AND EVERY HAND IS A LOSER (I.E. COUNTRY)...
AND THE BEST YOU CAN HOPE FOR IS TO DIE IN YOUR SLEEP!"
Kenny Rogers
When they do that alot of companies will flock to Greece because of the low cost to produce stuff compared to northern europe. The fear northern europe is that fact that this country and others could force there economies to compete on the way to the bottom.
greece is not the only 1 where all those problems...
And Greece will get the help. Goldminites won't let Greece to fail.
The failure has occured.
there is no failure till it fails....
So far it's a rigged game but no failure.
Furer Merkel has a big plan
the golmanites and fellow bankers take pleasure in the suffering of the common people. they know full well that this stage of the game is almost over, for it to continue is mathmatically impossible. the only question is timing. when the time comes, the common people will be treated like cattle.
"people will be treated like cattle"
As opposed to sheep?
Trying to decide which would be best...
Coming to a street corner in anytown USSA.
Um, it's already 'here'. Do you really need news coverage to cover the socio-economic range of your city bubbleboy?
coming to a u.s. neighborhood near you...
Were those pictures of Detroit?
Or parts of NYC, LA, Oakland, New Orleans. America doesn't hate their poor, it's much worse, America is indifferent to its poor.
Don't forget Baltimore. My God, have you people seen Baltimore? You need to have a tank escort to make it to Johns Hopkins.
Closest I got was DC, despite the high government employment the area had its fair share of grim-ness so that ain't surprising.
Baltimore is the worst in the East, though Philadelphia comes close. I once saw a man busted for (heroin? little white baggy) through the window of my train, with a mother pushing a child in a baby carriage nearby.
There is scarcely a village, town or city in America that does not tell this same story, however quietly. It's just another of our dirty secrets. Not up there with killing hundreds of thousands of innocents in the middle east, but definitely an enduring feature of our national "character."
Much as we like to idealize our precious compassion as human beings, genuinely giving a shit about human beings is really not our forte.
Pets, maybe.
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=PETM.OQ
Pets in the USA amount to about $38 billion as an industry.
That's more than you spend on your homeless, for sure.
Historical reference: http://content.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/essay.html
That's the price of "liberty," apparently.
Are you colorblind. Those are white folks in the photos above.
There's no such thing as poor, homeless, or hungry "white" people. At least that's what the MSM and government tell us. There have never been any "white" slaves, and "blacks" have never owned or sold other "blacks" into slavery either. har har
The quest for symetry, how it collapses.
Ah, ah, funny.
Yep, the symetrical that blacks never owned white in the US is a fact.
But hey, US citizenism is as us citizen does.
Yep, the symetrical that blacks never owned white in the US is a fact.
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There is simply no possible understanding of the murky, irrational, illogical Chinese citizenism mind.
They merely babble and linguistically blob-up.
PS: Admit it Anymouse --- YOU are the one responsible for translating those product manuals for every cheap Chinese-made crap product into (hopelessly garbled) English, aren't you?
akak said:
1. Place on ground
2. Light fuse
3. Get away
Anything more complex is garbled by Chinese citizenism.
Just don't ask for bread... whatever you do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ3AOmZ2fps
you're pushing your luck little man...
They should just move to San Francisco. That city has the fattest homeless I've ever seen.
Hey, don't knock the fried chicken until you've tried it.
Thanks Tyler.
I haven't heard from anyone out of Athens in days.
The EU politicians have a lot to answer for. It's going to get textbook ugly in Europe very soon and they don't have a clue about how to deal with it. What a failure the Euro has been.
Not just the EU
'What a failure the Euro has been.'
Yes, that is a terrible truth we're confronting here in Europe. At the top of that list of failures is allowing Goldman to infiltrate the borders of what was an otherwise well intentioned idea. Sadly, nobody is confronting Goldman though because Americans are in fetal position watching Mitt speak out of both sides of his mouth.
lulz. I was wondering why we hear virtually nothing from that angle. I mean, WTF?
Like this shit ain't 'merikan through and through.
That 4th picture of the young girl with her IPod sums it up I think.
And those who are paid to lead, as elsewhere, lunch long and well.
TD thanks for posting this. We speak enough of the larger picture regarding markets, politics and banksters but the suffering of the average person is real and becoming a much bigger problem worldwide. Everyone needs to look at these pictures and think about themselves and their families potentially in the same scenario some day.
Or even too many of them and too few of you.
Just sayin'.
Seriously? wtf _
what i meant is that compassion per se is out of reach for many people. not necessarily you. sorry,
the new great depression is yet to hit but its coming and its going to make the 30's look like a joke...
Fuck me, comparing homeless Greeks with starving Africans. Is that where we are.
Yup - because this is not apples and apples. The plight of Africa is criminal on a human level but the situation developing in a country like Greece shows the derailment of the Western Ponzi and the direct impact it has on the citizens there. And that is way too close to home for all of us that are trapped in this game.
wake me when the the greeks are eating dirtcakes. otherwise this article reeks of ny times
The lack of human sympathy on this site is amazing.
I hope some of you are in similar conditions one day. Maybe then you will grow the ability for compassion.
how is that exactly?
The lack of human sympathy on this site is amazing.
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US citizens have plenty of human sympathy.
But as they explain, their sympathy goes to human beings, not sub or non human beings.
US citizens are revolutionaries at heart, one can expect a lot of circularity.
Dumb ass. Dumb ass. Dumb ass.
Circularity indeed.
Too enduring, citizen.
Doesn't even make me laugh!
Hypocrite.
Knob - it is Knob isn't it? Anywho you keep on clicky clackin' those keys yer doin' real good - really no please don't stop - your almost pathetic but you'll get there -
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maybe you miss our point. while certainly anybody who goes from a fruitful productive life to soup kitchens in a blink of an eye gets our compassion, i find it irksome to see articles focusing on alleged widespread "greek poverty" when most of the world lives on a dollar a day. give me a break man........................
while certainly anybody who goes from a fruitful productive life to soup kitchens in a blink of an eye gets our compassion
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That is the cheap propaganda.
Now the reality:
while certainly anybody who goes from a fruitful life of consumption to soup kitchens in a blink of an eye gets our compassion,
@ananon you do realize that tens of thousands of small businesses in greece have gone bust? these were self employed people who took the risk, and capital, to create their own business.
And?
The resources they have freed by collapsing will go to maintain high level consumers elsewhere in US citizen world.
Production is consumption.
Production is consumption.
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And hypocrisy is Chinese citizenism.
No.
Chinese citizenism is a fantasy invented by US citizens to satisfy their passion of kicking the can and refusing to address the reality at hand.
Hypocrisy is a human behaviour.
But, hey, confusion is another way to kick the can.
The phrase "Kicking the can" somehow reminds me of all the stinking, festering garbage heaps littering the Chinese landscape. Kind of like a "Great Leap Forward" into environmental catastrophe.
Chinese citizen citizenism uses Tibetan slave labor to satisfy their passion of kicking the can and refusing to address the reality at hand. The slaves from Tibet kick the Chinese citizenism cans, while the Chinese citizenism citizens use the time saved from having to kick cans in order to spit, fart in public, shit on the roadside, blob up, and pick noses.
Thus is the running dog way of Chinese citizen citizenism of the imperialist Hypocritical Dynasty, the eternal nature of which cannot be denied.
you guys are afraid of him
"I hope some of you are in similar conditions one day"
Sounds like a lack of human sympathy to me, or does schadenfreude get you hard?
This.
Nice try. I said what I said because I don't believe there is any other way to get through to some people. I'm betting you are one of those people too.
The lack of individual responsibility around me is amazing too. It's not the government or anyone else's job to feed you. You do not have an unalienable right to other people's property when that property is used to feed you either.
And this!
You do not have an unalienable right to other people's property when that property is used to feed you either.
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Really? How do you explain US citizenism mecca, the US of A then?
Please explain. Manifest destiny anyone? White man burden anyone?
Make me laugh!
How does one explain the running dog imperialist crypt-fascist Chinese citizenism regime?
Invading, conquering and genociding neighboring nations, raping their resources, destroying their own lands in the short-sighted and centrally-planned greedy extraction of rare earth elements and gold, threatening their peaceful neighbors with war if they do not submit to Chinese citizenism blobbing-up, breeding like rabbits and then enforcing abortion on them --- the many contradictions and insanities of Chinese citizenism are simply too numerous to list.
While I agree that China is a fascist government (not communist), all those qualities you apply to China are actually America's qualities.
So you believe that when a nationwide disaster hits then whatever bad happens to you is still your fault. Doesnt' matter what reality is. You will still blame the victim.
It's this kind of thinking that makes me want something bad to happen to people like you.
They are not Greek.
Gypsies or something.
More cheap propagandaa.
You should not talk about your posts in such manner... people might get the wrong idea.
US citizens excell at getting the wrong idea in many, many things. Useless to incitate them or something.
Was wondering when you were going to blob up
Blobbing-up is the inherent and eternal nature of the Chinese citizenism citizen.
For such rabbit-breeding, earth-raping, nose-picking, public spitting, antheap-living entities, blobbing-up is integral to everything they do.
AnAnonymous blobbed up and said:
Useless incitationism is just one of the many forms of blobbing up for Chinese citizenism citizens. They know it is useless, and still they persist, now for centuries.
Incitationism is a traditional blobbing-up aspect of Chinese citizen cesspoolism, best observed when a Chinese citizen is squatting on the side of the road while simultaneously spitting, picking his nose and publicly shitting, all without any shame or self-consciousness at all, much as a mother goat shits on its own nursing baby with no hesitation.
Like a running dog returns to his imperialistic vomit, so does a Chinese citizen inevitably return to his excretorial incitationism.
Chinese citizen excretorial incitationism is the pinnacle of Chinese citizen cesspoolism, the goal of which is blobbing up to the capacity to enslave humanity by the threat of burying entire nations, such as Tibet, in a mountain of Chinese citizen fecalism.
This one's a keeper akak! LOL
Romas
They should take a look at Turkey right next door. Booming while Greece goes around with a begging bowl. The Greek population should demand that its politicians exit the Euro and replicate the economic policies of Turkey. That's not so difficult is it? The solution is at their doorstep. All they need to do is shed their love of the far-left/right anarchist loonies and develop some good sense like the Turks have.
Turkey has been sold to Citi, now what the fuck are you talking about? I could walk less than a kilometer in Anatolia and come up with more photos than these.
Go back to Anatolia in five years. At least the Turks aren't begging the French and the Germans for money.
Letter in the fT this morning...Bulgarian professor writes to say she'd like to earn the new reduced Greek minimum wage!
revolution world wide is coming to a country near you
"...says Stamatogiannopoulou."
Whoa, this guy needs a nickname.
Panorama on BBC last night had a good half hour on the lost Obama years, just as moving as this, people in storm drains under Vegas, you boys need to look closer to your front door a bit more, sympathy is a dish best served at home
i agree its coming to the US shortly...
I am a wall street vet of 17+ years and cant consistantly make $ for years now and am going back to law school to reinvent myself. I have pretty much spent my entire life savings trying to provide for my family....I have sent out 3k + resumes and cant get a job...You ask why law school, I wanna file a class action suit against bernanke, and paulson for what they have done to the country and its citizens and not one attorney would ablige my request....the corperations have sarbanes oxley why doesnt our govt adhere to it????
Good luck with that , truly, your ideal is noble though maybe somewhat lofty at this stage in your law career.
Dude. Going to law school will only help you understanding WHY you can't sue Bernanke and Paulson. Change course now if that's not what you are looking for.
Just what America needs, another lawyer.
corperations
...That can't spell.
Or do they teach that at law school nowadays?
i know i cant file a claim but it would be nice...huh
it's already here my friend, just not the violence.......yet
American soup lines are in WalMart's at 12:00am on the first of the month.
As a serious piece of advice:
Getting to the bar is no longer a guarantee of work in the US now.
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/05/not-on-the-partner-track-and-maybe-thats-...
http://www.metafilter.com/103851/Mommy-tracked-and-loving-it
Good luck. If you haven't lined up a properly advocatory externship by your senior year, drop out, you're just scamming yourself. Life is too short.
My co-worker is of greek descent. He mentioned how his aunt was robbed of her groceries as she walked back home in Greece. Also, people are begging for food outside of supermarkets.
Coming soon to a corner near you.
There is no inflation, there is no inflation, there is no inflation...
no way. in the u.s. the govt will increase its populist tendencies, curtail liberties, will just raise the tax rate on the rich "leeches" of society to 80 percent, and make sure the unfortunate poor continue to get free housing, free medical care, free education, free food and free cell phones.......
for as long as it lasts. there are only some many NBA contracts to be offered - at somepoint they realize they won't get a chance. when is that? will with big bad bama as president - they bought a lot of hope and change. of course - none of them realize that means actually showing up presentable to work at a job. when the time comes (and it will be lots longer than people think because there is still plenty of can to be kicked) short nike and rebok etc.
lots - correct. Oblama is going tribal. Inner cities will becoem more tribal as things get very violent. The entitled will feel even more entitled as Obama urges them onto the streets in prtest.
I mean that is his history of executive experience...is it not?
Get ready for some fun come the summer in the city.....
no shit....f'real.
nice pic too!!
Exactly, the human toll in broken lives and dreams is the most terrfying thing here. Central Bankers should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Right... Ask anyone on the street and 9 out of 10 will ask you what a central banker is and then ask you if you caught the score of lastnight's game. Give it up man. If you could somehow fool the American people into mistaking the problems with bankers and corrupt politicians with telling them they can't marry their gay lover then yeah maybe they might get off their asses. Otherwise the game is on.
soylent green gyros, anyone?
Bullish
I didn't see any bankes in those pictures.
They are in the pots
Oops...bankers.
Why don't all just start a greek restaurant? I like greek food and in my city there are only 4 greek restaurants. Room for more!
There are no Greek restaurants around here but we have Chinese on every corner.
It's why the financial system and the politicial system need to be replaced before this unnecessary harm is spread.
There are roughly 700 trillion reasons why it is too late.
There are NO options for Greece other than austerity; the Greeks are going to have to live within their means (in particular default would not prevent austerity). [and the same is going to true for the United States sometime within the next 10 years.]
"...we often ignore the human cost in the equation ..."
damned right we do....and this problem exists in america....1% of the population earns 35-45% of its income and these gluttonous mammon worshipping assholes like bernie marcus snort at the ows folks as idiots while he eats his caviar and other fineries in atlanta's finest restaurants...same goes for that asshole fed governor from atlanta...
jamie dimon never has done the lord's work but those who are giving till it hurts and are inconvenienced are the ones who are and they sure as hell aren't eating at panos and pauls or bones steakhouse in buckhead, now are they bernie??
how many more jobs do you want see shipped overseas so that you can fatten your profit margins to add another 25,000 sq feet to your mansion? to say nothing of the chinese workers who slave away in sweat shops so that you can keep clad in 250 usd shirts....fuck you...
tony, tony, tony.
Didn't you know? Wealth trickles down here in Amerikkka. It would be un-Godlike to keep the rich from getting richer.
And, those gay marriages and those abortions aren't going to stop or ban themselves, now are they?
Priorities.
/Pointless sarcasm off