What does the financial Mafia's "deficit" reduction mean to ordinary people? In just a matter of a couple of years decent ordinary hard working people in Greece have been reduced to begging on the streets. This photo from Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ, captures something horrifying in so much that it looks like a clean proud family, ashamed of their situation but forced to beg to support themselves and their family. There is no need for their shame, it is anger that they should be displaying. The have a genuine claim to righteous anger.
TIME FOR RIGHTEOUS ANGER
We talk of justice, we ooze compassion
you and I. Our comfort sure
with a gracious smile a token give
those "SO deserving poor".
Where is compassion when children lose
carefree innocent play,
where is justice when children meet
hunger along the way
Children who, in this world of excess
create a newsreel scene
cradled in a starving mother's arms
expiring on your TV screen.
Forget the famine rationale
in a sickly syrup word,
mouthed by those crazy apes
until the truth is blurred.
Feel the anguish of the other
hear their pitiful cry
see the hunger steal their future;
loudly cry out, why?
Then act out your righteous anger
fan the passions flame,
create a world of social justice
end this human shame.
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