  Edgar_rhode Member Username: Edgar_rhode Post Number: 20 Registered: 09-2007 |
link to an article about the civil unrest ( aka riots ) in greece. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl d/2008/dec/14/greece-riots-you th-poverty-comment sound familiar? Those of us who live here - who have seen how frayed the fabric of public order can become - now know, in no uncertain terms, that the orgy of violence that has gripped this beautiful land masks a deeper malaise. It is a sickness that starts not so much at the top but at the bottom of Greek society, in the ranks of its troubled youth. For many these are a lost generation, raised in an education system that is undeniably shambolic and hit by whopping levels of unemployment (70 per cent among the 18-25s) in a country where joblessness this month jumped to 7.4 per cent. If they can find work remuneration rarely rises above €700 (this is, after all, the self-styled €700 generation), never mind the number of qualifications it took to get the job. Often polyglot PhD holders will be serving tourists at tables in resorts. One in five Greeks lives beneath the poverty line. Exposed to the ills of Greek society as never before, they have also become increasingly frustrated witnesses of allegations of corruption implicating senior conservative government officials and a series of scandals that have so far cost four ministers their jobs. ( NOTE :: conservative in greece does NOT equal conservative in U.S. terms. there are some similarities and some differences. honestly i don't think it matters who is in charge if the underlying problems exist as described ) | ||
Detx Member Username: Detx Post Number: 211 Registered: 07-2007 |
You loot, I shoot. | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 2090 Registered: 03-2008 |
Sigh... | ||
Sumas Member Username: Sumas Post Number: 430 Registered: 01-2008 |
Sigh! | ||
Urbanophile Member Username: Urbanophile Post Number: 11 Registered: 11-2008 |
While I don't know that it will come to riots, I do believe that the economic malaise that has gripped a large part of the country which is manufacturing dependent is not healthy for our civil society. Clearly, if a large segment of the population is left out of our progress as a nation, that's bad news. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1387 Registered: 01-2008 |
quote: You? More likely, "they" | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 249 Registered: 01-2008 |
"Mr. Hephaestus, fire up the forge and fetch me several thunderbolts"---Zeus | ||
Bosch Member Username: Bosch Post Number: 25 Registered: 11-2008 |
There are a number of reports from the west side of gangs of zombies terrorizing the neighborhoods! | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 1241 Registered: 09-2007 |
Bosch...Damn those flesh eating bastards! I am running out of .45 cal (sterling jacket); soon I shall become their next meal. Let it be said that I died not in vain, but that I defended our fair city to the end...against these undead and fetid souls. |
