What awaits us as the Eurozone
circles the drain, for some idea we can look at what has happened to
the Greek people in just a couple of years. From a relatively
comfortable lifestyle for most, to deprivation, from a comparatively
low crime rate, to a rocketing crime rate, from mostly stable
communities to massive increases in suicides, alcoholism and mental
health problems, all the direct result of AUSTERITY, which is just a
polite word for plundering the people and pushing them into
deprivation. I should add that all these problems are for the ordinary people, our political masters and the financial Mafia are exempt from that deprivation they inflict on the rest of us. This from Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ.
This picture was taken in the centre
of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. The young teen, no
older than 13 or 14 was wheeling a shopping trolley full of scrap
metal just metres away from the high end hotels and shopping malls
that call this part of the town home.
He, along with many even
younger can be seen in the city rooting through the recycling bins
for cans, scrap metal and paper.. For those who scavenge, beg, sell
trinkets and wander the streets of this European city there is no
school or perhaps even a future, except for more of the same.
