Tonight big decisions are to be made inside the Greek parliament, while outside big fights are made against those decisions...
As Abraham Lincoln once said: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."...well obviously in Greece this is not the case. The people have been striking and demonstrating on the streets, clearly saying they don't want more of this torture! This is torture, and they cant take it anymore. The government that the people have elected should represent them and what they want, not an anyone else! Its easy for politicians, the changes that they are making mainly hits the poorer ones and they don't belong to this group. The last years of crisis and depression have drove so many Greeks over the edge, and how many more to come after tonight?
I have just seen a video on a webpage of an online newspaper, where the reporter says that he has visited a soup kitchen in Athens and it just sank in for him that this crisis was about more than debt and the true cost of the European crisis. NOW??? Seriously?! What did he think up to now? That all these cuts wont affect the population? Or that the Greek people do not exist, just the Greek debt? Its like the politicians, they don't actually have to live with the consequences of the decisions that they make. So who cares, right that the rest of Greece is hungry?! Its easy for the ones who don`t have to live in these conditions. Why cant people see what is happening around them? They cut the salaries, fire people, increase the taxes and invent new ones, they slowly kill the average man... There is limit, or there should be. Every time the Greek government introduces a new package, people have to give up something. First of course you cut down on the non essentials, like clothing, eating and going out...then you cut down on the next level, like private lessons for you children, vacation, car usage..and you go on. You change the soap you use, the pasta you cook...then you eat less meat, less vegetables...and the list goes on and on and on. Until you rich the level where you don't heat you apartment in the winter, since you can`t buy oil because its too expensive... when there is only essentials left, you start to prioritize. What is more important paying my bills or feeding my family? Which one you would pick? This is the choice many Greek families face every day.
The true cost of this charade that we have to live through...Families get torn apart, because one of them goes to work abroad, living the rest of the family behind. Parents are forced to give up their children, because they can not provide for them anymore. An entire generation is in devastation becaue they cant find a job, they can afford to move out from their parents, they cant start a family. They are standing still, watching the years go by as the situation gets worse day by day. They watch the future that they were promised once to slip through their hands. They are forced out of their country, away from their families. The young generation feels that they have no future, but at least they are still young, maybe they can start over. What about the older people, who worked their time already and now what they get? Pension cuts, taxes, and they get to watch their families suffer...
They say there is light at the end of the tunnel, that there is always hope...Is there? Some people already admitted that there is not, or at least not this way. They are the ones you read about in the newspaper, the ones that hang themselves in the center of Athens, the ones that jump of from buildings. Unfortunately more and more people feel like that there is no hope or that they are too powerless to change things... The rest knows, that is not getting any better, but they hope. They hope that some miracle will happen and change everything, and all of this will just seem like a bad nightmare. Yes, they hope...and hope is a good thing, it gives you power to fight, to go on. There must be a point where we have to realize that this miracle is not going to fall in our lap, we have to do something for it. But not this way, we must not let them ruin our lives. We should not have to sacrifice ourselves, our children and our future for lies and deception of a handful of people.Please comment, I wold love to hear you opinion. Thank you :-)
