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Greek debt crisis: In Athens, scavenging from bins has become a way to survive
UK The Telegraph ^ | 6/30/15 | Colin Freeman, and Alastair Good

Posted on 06/30/2015 5:49:22 PM PDT by Kartographer

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To: Ghost of SVR4
All we have to do is look back at Sandy. It took a mere 72 hours and people were dumpster diving.

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!

21 posted on 06/30/2015 6:25:34 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Henry Bowman where are you?)
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To: Kartographer

Greece is just a socialist hellhole whose people believe all owe them. Let them go the way of their ancestors


22 posted on 06/30/2015 6:27:35 PM PDT by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hey, Waffle House will bail us out.


23 posted on 06/30/2015 6:30:05 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: tennmountainman
American society is very wasteful....of everything...fuel...water...food....clothes...shoes...

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...

24 posted on 06/30/2015 6:30:39 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Kartographer

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.


25 posted on 06/30/2015 6:31:26 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: cherry

My Mom still has a stash of bread bags, Tin cans, paper bags, rubber bands....

So do I LOL


26 posted on 06/30/2015 6:33:52 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: cherry

Oh and re-purposed Christmas paper LOL


27 posted on 06/30/2015 6:39:48 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: All

The Simpsons said it best “No one get’s rich writing a lot of checks”
We are now over 18 trillion dollars in debt.


28 posted on 06/30/2015 6:42:14 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: Kartographer

It’s already here and been here for many many years. I see dumpster divers everywhere I go.


29 posted on 06/30/2015 6:46:45 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Kartographer
My wife and I visited Athens the early fall of 2013.
The major tourist areas (Acropolis) were well maintained & trash was minimized. Other areas, especially side alleys, leading up to points of interest to visitors ... were littered with garbage. My wife's first visit to Greece ... my second ... compliments of the US Navy (USMC 1966) and certainly our last.
30 posted on 06/30/2015 6:47:15 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Kartographer

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.


31 posted on 06/30/2015 6:57:31 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mylife

Or Huddle Hut.


32 posted on 06/30/2015 7:23:28 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I like Huddle Hut


33 posted on 06/30/2015 7:35:19 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: ClearCase_guy

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!


34 posted on 06/30/2015 7:40:28 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: cherry

Hey, I just ordered some board games and decks of cards.


35 posted on 06/30/2015 8:04:34 PM PDT by goosie
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To: mylife

“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.


36 posted on 06/30/2015 8:25:57 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Touche to the 2nd.


37 posted on 06/30/2015 8:49:55 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: Kartographer

“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”.


38 posted on 06/30/2015 9:14:49 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: JoeProBono
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?

39 posted on 07/01/2015 8:33:20 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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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/


40 posted on 07/01/2015 9:31:28 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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