Posted on 06/15/2012 9:02:11 PM PDT by blam
Drachmageddon? Middle-class poverty. Feral Gangs. Neo-Nazis. Athens Waits For The Volcano To Explode
By Robert Hardman
15 June 2012
Antonis Perris was a devoted son. When his elderly mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s four years ago, there was no question of putting her in a state facility.
He would care for her at home in Athens and they would face the future together.
But then things started getting very much worse.
‘The problem is that I was not prepared when the economic crisis hit and I do not have enough money in my account,’ wrote the 60-year-old unemployed musician.
‘My credit card is overdrawn, we do not have enough food to feed ourselves. I live a drama with no end. Does anyone have a solution for me? World leaders, you who brought this financial crisis, you all need hanging!’ On the brink: Greeks will go to the polls again on Sunday, and the outcome of their votes will be critical for the country's future.
Perris wrote of his despair in an internet chatroom three weeks ago. Then, one morning, he led his mother on to the roof of their five-storey apartment block. Hand-in-hand, they jumped off.
Not long ago, this episode would have been a national scandal. Today, it is just another tragic footnote to the story of a society on the brink of collapse.
On Monday morning, this modern European nation could be waking up to a nightmare scenario, which runs as follows. The cash machines start drying up. Supermarket shelves are cleared by families fearful that food supplies will run out.
There are queues round the block for the last dribbles from the petrol pumps, and deliveries come to a halt. Within a day or two, protests have turned to looting and random acts of violence
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Is it too late to give Greece a blood transfusion of Wisconsin?
God have mercy on their souls.
The blame squarely goes on the voters of the world.
Over time they’ve all voted themselves “free” stuff that was either to be paid for by the “rich” or in the future by their own children and grandchildren. The banksters and the politicians simply provided what the voters demanded of them.
The economic theory that the west could continue endless ever expanding deficit spending and call it “growth” was a lie - a fatal lie.
So you think that civilization will regroup after about 60 days of a complete meltdown? I hope so, because we live in the suburbs and while have about 6 months of prep, we can't grow food or kill game. After that, then it's the movie called, "The Road". Forget Mad Max and the Book of Ely (good movie), check out "The Road" for an even bleaker picture of post-apocalypse. It's awful, and probably the closest to how things would be for survival.
Some good points. Although the libs would say “inhumane”, I see reality in your post.
Yup. Truly believe you are correct and glad I'm heading in the back stretch.
I have a very simple explanation for the deteriorating economic status of the USA and most of Europe and why we will fail as the East grows more dominant:
Accomplishment, effort, and pride in work ethic has been replaced by laziness, self-aggrandizing, and unwarranted expectations from others who have the former.
Europe is our template nowadays. We will fail as they are now. But hey, we had a good run, didn't we?
i have a saying of my own preference, actually two one is
“if you are gonna panic, panic first”
and
“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees”
i have a saying of my own preference, actually two one is
“if you are gonna panic, panic first”
and
“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees”
I’m amazed the headline doesn’t include the word “Acropolypse!”
Very well said, NVDave. I’ve received bits of advice over the past 15 years from several men (friends) who studied history, economics and warfare most of their lives. One was a historian and economist, who applied those studies and extensive travel to advice for governments and large corporations. Another was a commander (retired, Navy) of high rank and broad responsibility. There were others.
It’s too late for most people to begin to take that advice: to study and experience as many basic, natural physical events as possible, and to situate, build and tinker according to those lessons. It takes at least a few years to get a start in the complicated, laborious and uncompleted endeavor.
Most, instead, have prepared to find their demise much more quickly and would have scoffed at the advice anyway. Some people are already showing illogical, public anger against strangers for making their own repairs or buying ingredients to cook food from fundamental ingredients (from scratch).
There will be no recovery of what we once had (or better), until we see the moral paradigm of early America (or better) again.
“if you are gonna panic, panic first”
LOL! I was telling my wife when I started prepping for Y2K that “Hey - I’m doing my public duty so I don’t add to the panic if it does happen”. And really, there is a lot to be said for that.
It all goes back to the fact that nothing is “free”; everything has a cost that must be paid.
Someone else must pay for the “free” items.
They only seem free because they are given as charity, purchased with a loan or received via via government wealth redistribution which is nothing more than extortion and confiscation from others.
Except for bona fide charity, a day of payback will surely arrive.
As the old adage goes: “You can pay me now or you can pay me later.”
People in Greece have come face to face with the day when payment is due.
Our stupid, venal, traitorous politicians and the self interest groups they pander to are taking the USA down the same pathway as Greece and the end is in sight.
And there is no favorable light at the end of the tunnel - that is just rioters burning and looting the neighborhoods.
Reference bump - Thanks! ;-)
And when you have fallen so far that the foolish people elect a lazy and self-aggrandizing bum as their leader there is little hope for a peaceful return to a society founded on self reliance and honesty.
We are being destroyed from within by millions of bums who expect more than they give, and who have now elected one of their own to take what they want from others.
Obama is their Golden Idol.
“Nobody pays their taxes but they retie in their 50’s.
Now they want the world to bankroll that lifestyle.”
Right. They STILL want this. The Greeks obviously have no sense of responsibility for their current situation, it’s all somebody else’s fault. The rich, the politicians, the bankers, the Germans, the illegals, etc., etc.
I haven’t seen one person, in any article I’ve read about this say: gee, maybe our national lifestyle can’t go on the way it’s been going. They seem to be like those people in hurricane Katrina who were just sitting on their tushies waiting for “the government” to “do something”.
I think they should just all come up with a plan to devolve the Euro RIGHT NOW.
Sure, it might be a mess, but it’s already a mess. This stupid currency has been around for less than 20 years. Unravel it now and be done with it.
And there is no favorable light at the end of the tunnel
To repeat a joke that is no joke, When a politician sees light at the end of the tunnel, they buy more tunnel.
This country is at the mid-point between those who produce
and those who don’t.
I remember getting a series of blood (well, plasma) transfusions.
Very unpleasant. Broke out in severe hives, everywhere, each time.
Greece has made it very clear they are uninterested in “unpleasant” solutions.
We done gone and gots the Black Superman looking after us.
Party like it's 1999!
I appreciate this view and agree.
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