Greek Society in Free Fall

How long have we been watching Greece now?  3 years or more?

Of course we watch them because they once stood alone as the world's power.  In fact they are the waist of bronze as dreamed by Nebuchadnezzar and interpreted by Daniel in the book of Daniel.

We watch them because it is quite possible that what is happening to them is going to happening to the USA.

When we mention this to some we get a response, "That's not gonna happen here!  This is America!!"

Of course the "America!" crowd have no numbers or logic to explain WHY it can't happen here.  Long time readers will already know that the U.S. per capita debt EXCEEDS the per capita debt of Greece....so it CERTAINLY could happen here.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A sign taped to a wall in an Athens hospital appealed for civility from patients. "The doctors on duty have been unpaid since May," it read, "Please respect their work."

 

Patients and their relatives glanced up briefly and moved on, hardened to such messages of gloom. In a country where about 1,000 people lose their jobs each day, legions more are still employed but haven't seen a paycheck in months. What used to be an anomaly has become commonplace, and those who have jobs that pay on time consider themselves the exception to the rule.

To the casual observer, all might appear well in Athens. Traffic still hums by, restaurants and bars are open, people sip iced coffees at sunny sidewalk cafes. But scratch the surface and you find a society in free-fall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century.

"Our society is on a razor's edge," Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said recently, after striking shipyard workers broke into the grounds of the Defense Ministry. "If we can't contain ourselves, if we can't maintain our social cohesion, if we can't continue to act within the rules ... I fear we will end up being a jungle."

"I start work at 2:30 a.m. and work 'till the afternoon, until about 4 p.m. Shouldn't I have something to show for that? There's no point in working just to cover my costs. ... Tell me, is this a life?"

At the end of the day, as the fish market gradually packed up, a beggar crawled around the stalls, picking up the fish discarded onto the floor and into the gutters.

"I've been here since 1968. My father, my grandfather ran this business," Korakis said. "We've never seen things so bad."

Here;  http://news.yahoo.com/hit-crisis-greek-society-free-fall-074114680.html

I'm sure in their wildest dreams the Greeks could have never envisioned themseleves crawling aroud at the fish market looking for scraps...after all, THEY ONCE RULED THE WORLD!!