It’s amazing how quickly people forget about Greece. Laden with debt, they used to pay huge salaries and benefits to public employees. Now they are struggling to avoid starvation.
As they say, We are Greece in two years. Our crushing debt, overpaid public employees, entitlements, and the FSA will sink this country, and people will be fighting over a bag of oranges. They used to protest, now they’re just trying to feed themselves. Another good reason to prepare for what is coming here.
Funny, I didn’t see anything about this on the MSM. I wonder why. It’s a snapshot of what’s in store for us.
Person Trampled As Fight Breaks Out At Greek Free Food Handout
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/06/2013 11:12 -0500
In yet another day marked by simply unbearable propaganda, about an hour ago an EU official pulled a Lanny Breuer and was quoted as saying that “things are going well” in Greece. Oh are they? Then perhaps the same official can explain why a clip of a scuffle breaking out at a free food handout in Greece, where one man was “trampled and injured”, and where a “Reuters photographer was hit on the head with cauliflower heads” has been the most watched item on Greek TV in the past day?
From Reuters:
Hundreds of Greeks scuffled for free vegetables handed out by farmers on Wednesday, leaving one man trampled and injured and prompting an outcry over the growing desperation created by economic crisis.
Startling images of Greeks struggling to seize bags of tomatoes and leeks thrown from a truck dominated Greek television, triggering a bout of soul-searching over the new depths of poverty in the debt-laden country.
One man was treated for injuries after being trampled when he fell to the ground in the commotion. A Reuters photographer at the scene was hit on the head with cauliflower heads.
The farmers said they gave away 50 metric tonnes (55.11 tons) of produce in under two hours
“These images make me angry. Angry for a proud people who have no food to eat, who can’t afford to keep warm, who can’t make ends meet,” said Kostas Barkas, a lawmaker from the leftist Syriza party.
Other lawmakers from across the political spectrum decried the images “of people on the brink of despair” and the sense of “sadness for a proud people who have ended up like this”.
“It’s difficult. I never imagined that I would end up here,” said Panagiota Petropoulos, 65, who struggles to get by on her 530-euro monthly pension while paying 300 euros in rent.
“I can’t afford anything, not even at the fruit market. Everything is expensive, prices of everything are going up while our income is going down
Well, at least Greece has the Euro, as a result of which the only way to resolve the competitve imbalances is to continue with internal devaluation which means another 25% drop in Greek wages as shown previously all else equal. Which means many more incidents of “trampling” to come.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-06/person-trampled-fight-breaks-out-greek-free-food-handout
JIMSKI says:
Add 130 million guns to that picture…………
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6th February 2013 at 1:17 pm
AWD says:
The FSA won’t be standing around waiting for free handouts when their SNAP cards quit working. They’ve become violent when trying to get section 8 vouchers. Imagine what they’ll do when their hungry and no food stamps?
Section 8 voucher violence:
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6th February 2013 at 1:27 pm
Outtahere says:
Like I’ve been trying to tell some of my head-in-the sand friends AND relatives, Europe is just a blueprint for what’s going to happen here in Amerika before too much longer. I can only imagine what it’s going to be like when public employees, teachers and various union members find out that they aren’t going to be getting any where close in retirement as what they’ve been promised for the last 20 years or so.
Better buckle up! It’s gonna get bumpy and UGLY.
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6th February 2013 at 1:48 pm
KaD says:
I remember reading a story about people in Greece dropping their kids off at social service agencies with a not attached: “I cannot feed my children. Please take care of them.”
Dear God, can you imagine droppint off your kids?
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6th February 2013 at 2:17 pm
JIMSKI says:
Our family used to do foster care. Every placement we had was a scum sucking puke of a Human Being that did not want to give up the kids. Even if it was in the best interest they would not give up the kids.
By the time they had been with us a year or so I was glad to drop them off. These poor things were just so broken inside and we were, for the most part, unable to heal them.
Sigh……
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6th February 2013 at 2:42 pm
Eddie says:
It occurred to me today that it’s just a matter of time before we have online dating especially for the FSA, to help single moms who are no longer able to find a baby daddy hook up with a man who brings home a SS disability check.
Laugh if you will. It is coming and you heard it here first.
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6th February 2013 at 2:56 pm
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Eddie
The site can be called FSA Snatch.com
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6th February 2013 at 3:07 pm
Eddie says:
Bean counters can’t name things worth spit.
It will be known as MealTicketMatch.com
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6th February 2013 at 3:37 pm
Pirate Jo says:
Fortunately, that sort of thing (being trampled to death) could never happen here.
The people here are much too big.
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6th February 2013 at 3:37 pm
AWD says:
Many big people are still mourning the loss of those golden brown, cream-filled, 20 year shelf-life wonders of modern society…
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6th February 2013 at 4:39 pm
Llpoh says:
Greece still hasn’t done shit to correct their problems – corruption, overloaded govt service, protected industries, etc. They have buried their heads in the sand.
They really need a revolution. But it will not happen – they are all of like minds. Their sense of entitlement pervades the whole country. Even starvation will not wipe it out. They will expect someone to ride to their rescue.
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6th February 2013 at 4:39 pm
AWD says:
This site would has a catchy name:
MakingBabiesForWelfare.com
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6th February 2013 at 4:40 pm
card802 says:
Greece hasn’t done shit to correct their problems because they don’t have to.
How many last bailouts have they got? The Greek politicians sit back at laugh, they know it’s too important to the rest of the Euro Union that they remain in the Euro Union, least other nations bail, and they know after they received their first last bailout, there would be many more last bailouts to follow.
The elites at the top will always get theirs, it’s the pawn that is used and abused.
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6th February 2013 at 4:48 pm
Llpoh says:
Card – the eighty percent that work for the govt are pretty happy, too. Until they aren’t. Coming soon.
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6th February 2013 at 5:04 pm
card802 says:
Llpoh, true.
I think we sit back and try to imagine how bad this can get, and we really have no idea, do we?
At least I don’t.
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6th February 2013 at 5:22 pm
Kill Bill says:
Gee, who helped Greece fudge its debts so it could get into the very union who is being helped by the same folks to strip as much wealth [austerity] from the country as possible?
O. Wait. I know.
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6th February 2013 at 6:03 pm
chen says:
The American organism is in decline. This may be due to old-age.
In its youth, it grew strong and productive. In old age it has grown fat and weak.
Its bones are brittle, its blood tired and its organs are decayed. Its vision has dimmed.
Its sense of direction and purpose has been occluded by years of over-indulgence and self-medication. Its memory is dimmed and it is delirious in self glory.
The system of government has dollars as its lifeblood. A balanced amount of currency produces sound economy. Periodic over printing or withdrawal of currency is akin to
a high or low blood pressure in a body.
The disease is not readily felt but its destructive effects are detectable. In a hypertensive state, vital organs are damaged. Too much blood increases the pressure on a system. Delicate organ cells begin to die. The mechanism of the regulating organ is damaged and this in turn creates greater pressure. Currency in circulation increases exponentially. Blood clots may cause a stroke, destroying brain function.
Fed intervention by injecting dollars or removing excess currency is the equivalent of applying leaches to a sick patient. What is necessary to cure the patient is not being accomplished but the patient’s relatives are reassured that the patient is being treated.
The patient’s vital organs are industry and labor. The bones are the infrastructure. Money (the lifeblood) is created as blood is within the infrastructure. Without a healthy structure, frequent blood transfusions are necessary to replace blood cells that the body cannot produce.
In a hypotensive state, there is weakness and wasting away of energy and resources. In such a deflationary environment, resources are available but key ingredients are not carried to processing centers, readily available resources such as stored supplies, akin to body fat, are consumed. When cells cannot use energy sources, excess labor begins to circulate in the system unused. The kidneys begin to eject this excess supply because there is not enough effective insulin to consume the energy supply. Excess labor such as foreign workers is ejected.
As labor dwindles, demand is reduced. Legal employees are discharged.
In a weakened state, the patient succumbs to disease. Opportunistic bacteria and parasites multiply. Cash and valuable resources are drained. Mind numbing drugs are administered. Reassurances of the hereafter are heard and the last rites are performed.
The system may expire. It does not mean there will be a rebirth of the system. It may mean that the corpse will provide food and fuel for a myriad of fauna as the corpse is consumed. 2008
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6th February 2013 at 6:13 pm