Posted on 06/30/2015 5:49:22 PM PDT by Kartographer
Piled high with rubbish congealing in the summer heat, municipal dustbin R21 on Athens' Sofokleous Street does not look or smell like a treasure trove. But for Greece's growing army of dustbin scavengers, its deposits of rubbish from nearby stores and grocery shops make it a regular point of call. "Sometimes I'll find scrap metal that I can sell, although if I see something that looks reasonably safe to eat, I'll take it," said Nikos Polonos, 55, as he sifted through R21's contents on Tuesday morning. "Other times you might find paper, cans, and bottles that you can get money for if you take them back to the shops for recycling." • Greece crisis live: Latest news as Greeks submit audacious new two-year bail-out application but promise to default tonight One reason for R21's popularity is because it is just down the road from a church soup kitchen, where the drug-addicted, the poor and homeless queue up for meals three times daily.
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I think a lot of Americans simply do not cook or have food at home. As long as snack shops are open and supplied, these people are just fine and dandy. But, if things go wrong, these people have nothing to fall back on -- nothing in the freezer, nothing in the fridge, no jar of peanut butter in the pantry. It wouldn't even take 72 hours. McDonald's is CLOSED???? Well, where the heck is my next meal coming from?
Note that emergency food trucks (if there were any) handing our beans and rice would NOT be welcomed by these people -- they want the chicken and bacon wrap with ranch dressing and a diet coke -- and make it snappy FEMA guy!
Greece is just a socialist hellhole whose people believe all owe them. Let them go the way of their ancestors
Hey, Waffle House will bail us out.
our parents or maybe our grandparents knew how to keep a pair of shoes in shape and they passed down clothes from one kid to another, to a cousin or neighbor.. gosh, we never threw a used pair of good shoelaces out....we saved them!.
it'll be challenging to become an impoverished nation but it might make us better people....maybe for fun instead of jetting off to Disney World or Hawaii, we'll get back to playing pinochle or making puzzles together at the kitchen table...
Greece’s financial problems came to the forefront when a government clerk in Athens saw a satellite photo of Athens.
He saw numerous backyard in-ground swimming pools.
In Athens, you are supposed to buy a permit (pay a tax) to put in an in-ground swimming pool.
Nobody was paying the tax even though they had the money to put an in-ground pool in their backyard.
The Greeks love to spend German tax money. They refuse to pay their own taxes.
Maybe that lady can go for a swim.
My Mom still has a stash of bread bags, Tin cans, paper bags, rubber bands....
So do I LOL
Oh and re-purposed Christmas paper LOL
The Simpsons said it best “No one get’s rich writing a lot of checks”
We are now over 18 trillion dollars in debt.
It’s already here and been here for many many years. I see dumpster divers everywhere I go.
He was eating like a king yesterday, but today Greece defaulted and austerity kicked in. Paul Krugman can interview him during his Grecian vacation later this year.
Or Huddle Hut.
I like Huddle Hut
either you prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
I am sure ‘Moochelle’ will be FEMA’s offical Meal Planner!
Hey, I just ordered some board games and decks of cards.
“The worlds first democracy shows us that Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what is for lunch.”
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
Touche to the 2nd.
“scavenging from bins has become a way to survive”
What a coincidence! That’s the title of Chapter 21 in the book, “How You Will Know When Your Country Has Run Out of Other People’s Money”.
Do you know why she is no longer receiving anything from the family?
In his biography of Athina Onassis, granddaughter and heiress of the late tycoon Aristole Onassis, Alexis Mantheakis portrays her as tough, cold and uncaring to her family. In the book, Athina Onassis: In the Eye of the Storm, the Greek lawyer writes of how she shunned her aunt who was destitute.
Mantheakis describes her as “a doll made of steel” in regard to her attitude toward her aunt Olga Onassis. According to Mantheakis, Olga asked Athina to help her several times because she was poor, but she said Athina denied to do so.
The Greek newspaper Real News quoted this passage to illustrate the point: “When her aunt, Olga Onassis, who faced serious financial problems asked her financial support, she refused to help her. Athina did not call her aunt back, and never replied to a letter sent by Olga Onassis to her niece. Olga was calling me every ten days or so, and was telling me she was totally broke and that she could not work because she was quite old.”
Mantheakis continued that, “Athina and her close people in Switzerland ignored Olga. Few months later, Olga Onassis ended up eating her meals at the soup kitchen of the St. Nikolaos church. At the same time, on October 22nd 2003, according to the Brazilian press, Athina bought an expensive present costing about $230,000 for her then boyfriend, now husband, Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto, also known as Doda.”
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/09/17/athina-onassis-a-heartless-doll-made-of-steel/
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