[JoeProBono]

SHE looks like any old bag lady scavenging for cast-offs in the rubbish as the world looks the other way.

But this is no ordinary woman - she is Olga Onassis, 90, a woman linked by marriage to one of the richest dynasties in the world.

She has now fallen, like her country, on desperate times.

She is a regular at a church soup kitchen in the Greek capital, Athens, and roots around in the overflowing garbage containers of the city for clothes.

German newspaper Bild spoke with her this week as her debt-ridden nation lurched into violence and chaos once more.

Olga Onassis’s husband Georgios was the cousin of Aristotle Onassis, the fabulously wealth Greek shipping tycoon who married President John F. Kennedy’s widow Jackie in 1968. Theirs was a life of splendour and opulence before his death in 1975. But Olga has not received anything from the family in more than six years.

She told Bild: ‘’I get nothing more from the family. I survive on one pension only and that was cut to €300 ($A402) a month because of the crisis. I cannot believe what has happened to my country.’’

[riri]

I saw the name but didn't know if there was a connection.

Do you know why she is no longer receiving anything from the family?

[caww]

It's my understanding that all these pensioners clamoring for money were the same ones who worked 28 hour weeks, retire at 58... fully on board with abortion so their’s no one to make the payments for their pensions anyway.

Her generation has pilfered that country for years...and here they are begging someone to keep taking care of them. I have a hard time feeling sorry for these people...it does seem they brought it on themselves. The same will eventually catch up to us.