Short Update on Cyprus`s Struggle

So we are waiting for a while for somehting to happen. By now most people think, anything, I just want to know!! And we can not blame them for this. Its been a rough week in Cyprus and things are not getting better. I dont want to rewrite like everybody else for the hundredth time what`s going on, Im pretty sure everybody know by now. But lets see what happend since Thursday.
So first they said they will have a plan B and vote on it by Thursday, of course this didn`t happen. Then they said on Friday they will vote on it, this didn`t happen either ( if only there would be a punishment for missing deadlines, I wonder why is it that if I miss a deadline in school or in work I get punished and lectured, they don't... Well....). Though on friday the Cyrpian parilament did vote on some things. A total of nine bills and the main context is:

1. Restructuring of the banking sector, starting with the most troubled bank of all - Laiki Bank, the country's second largest
2. The creation of a solidarity fund: nationalising pension funds and other state assets
3. The approval of capital controls to prevent large fund withdrawals out of Cyprus

 Well its like I say today I'm going to make a dinner with 4 courses, then I go in to the kitchen for a couple of hours and come out with a toast sandwich....Its food, but its not a 4 course meal. Of course, restructuring the bank sector was a demand from the EU, but its not the major issue here. Since still nobody has an idea about from they are going to collect the money they need to secure the 10 b.n. euro bailout loan.
Solidarity fund, isn't it a nice name? Just to pull a little resemblence, in my previous post I was talking a bit about Hungary, when there they tricked people out of their pension funds everybody was so angered, not just in Hungary, but all over Europe, everybody was saying it wasn't correct, the government shouldn't have done this, but by now this isn't the first time, that a government touches a pension fund, so its OK, right? You see, if there is an experiment going on in one country, like Hungary with the pension funds, or Greece with the salary cuts and people take it, then they think its perfectly alright to do it everywhere else to.
And then the beauty of the votes, its the capital control. First they close the banks down preventing people from accessing their money, and now even if they do reopen they wont be able to take their money out of the country. Isn't politicians smart? They know, that there is probably not a lot of people left who after all this would trust a bank with their savings, and they know as soon as the banks reopen, there will be mass withdrawal (even if they try to say something else in the news and newspapers, just think what you would do!), so to prevent this they tell you: you cant take it out. Nice move, they are really trying to save those Cypriot banks.
In the meantime Russia very polity said, well thanks but not thanks. So there is no new loan coming from Russia, even though they offered them part of their gas reserves ( the ones, that they would come in active in 2020, and also Turkey warned over them, that hey we would have a world or two if you do that) and also they didn't loosen the payments of the previous loan Cyprus received from Russia in 2011.
However, after public blame has been put on Greece for bankrupting Cyprus, Greece is offering a helping hand ( as we say where I come from, the blind is leading one with no eyes(no offense meant for anybody)). So Greece`s Pireus Bank offered to take over the local units of the Cypriot banks. What a helping hand, no? I`m sure now all the problems of the banks are solved.
Also as I mentioned before life is getting harder in Cyprus, since some cash withdrawals have been limited to 260 euro/day. In most places they don't accept cards anymore and people are getting more and more frustrated and scared. Though I can not blame them a bit.
But regardless of everybody wandering whats happening behind closed doors, we don't know yet anything. We heard ideas about how they are going to get the money, but we haven't heard this Plan B as it is. I am guessing they don't want to anger the public anymore, so we are only going to know more after they have voted on it, and then there will be little people can do about it. There is still today and tomorrow for the parliament to figure out some way ( maybe they should robe a banks :-) ), because monday is a national holiday in Cyprus.
Oh, before I forget, nice things happen in the world, every country has national holidays and if we are lucky they happen to be on weekdays, which means like in this case that we get to have a long weekend. Its like a mini vacation, except, when they ruin it for you, like now in Cyprus.
So back to where we were, so Monday its not just a national holiday, but also the deadline with which the ECB is threatening. So this is going to be one of the longest weekends ever in waiting I think, and by next Tuesday we will see what they decide. I just truly wish they wouldn't play with our heads like this, because we all know that things are already decided, they just like the suspense...but this isn't a movie, and if it was I would just forward to the end of it, just to know!

What kids watch nowdays?

When I was a kid of course we didn't have lots of TV channels, and even less programs dedicated to children. The ones we did have were tho truly for us. I grow up watching classic Disney cartoons, like Cinderella, or Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, Winni the Pooh, etc. I grow up waiting every weekend, when in the morning they had cartoons for us kids on TV and every Sunday afternoon by 16:00 I was ready with homework and chores so I can watch the Disney show. They always tolled me to stay a kid as long as I can, because once I grow up there is no going back.
In my time there were no cartoons explaining to you about how money works, or teach to save your pocket-money, or explaining about violence. No, we were just watching Coyote and the Road Runner and laughing everytime the Coyote missed the Road Runner, we didn't care how he got the stuff out in the middle of nowhere or if it was correct to try to blow the Road Runner up. And we didn't think that the Coyote was a terrorist, as a kid I never even heard that word. Somehow in my generation and probably also before there was no issue that a cartoon is too violent, because we understood that is a cartoon, obviously none of us would go and try to shoot each other because we saw it on a cartoon, or try to fly with balloons like Winni the Pooh for some honey.
I had responsibilities as a kid, do your homework, do your chores, help out, etc, but when I got to play it was for fun. To watch a cartoon in my times was about taking a break and not about watching something like this:

I treasured my cartoon watching Sunday afternoons as a kid, I don't think kids who watch things like this treasure the minutes they spend watching this.
This animation was aired on a German national TV station for kids about Hungary. I couldn't find it in English, so I am gonna tell you what it is about (just in case you don't speak German). It talks about how Hungarian politicians don`t respect EU laws and that reporters cannot work freely, that the last time in Hungary they resoled the rights to frequencies for radios, some of the radio stations who didn't approve of the governments ways didn't win the frequencies they wanted, that in Hungary the government wants the people only to hear good news from the TV stations and the newspapers, that the government cut the rights and possibilities of the constitutional court and because of all this Hungary might get punished by the EU.
Of course I don't agree on any level with the things that has been going on in Hungary the last years. I don`t agree about cutting the wings of the constitutional court, because a government should have somebody who can control them, or at least try. Of course I don`t agree with prime minister Orban practicly making sure that even if he doesn't win the next elections still his people will be in decision making positions in almost every office that matters. Of course I didn`t agree when he made people to give up their private retirement funds. Of course I was astonished at how calmly he can lie during the last snowstorm in Hungary ( in case you haven't heard: Hungary had a snowstorm combined with a very strong wind last weekend, and march 15. being a national holiday, everybody was busy preparing to celebrate this rather then to prevent almost 6000 cars being stuck on highways. During this time, it is customary in Hungary to give out medals to people who did something great, while the celebrated few were having a nice a dinner part of the country was already stuck on high ways, others were cut off from electricity, etc. And Mr. Orban decided to calm the nation by posting that enjoy your dinner, since there is not one person in Hungary who is hungry or cold, because everybody have been rescued out. Of course this was not true and even a day after this post people were still not helped, but what else happened in that day would worth a post on its own.). So to sum it up, I don`t agree with what has been going on, but I don't think for a second that a child should be concerned about this.So my problem with this video is not that it is not true, of course I would like to know who made Germany the judge of that? When I was young, my great-grandmother used to tell me this: "Don't tell the neighbor that his porch is dirty, until yours in not immaculate and even then you don't have to live at the neighbor! " So is Germany`s porch immaculate? I don`t think so...
But outside of this, by biggest problem is with this video is about what we let our kids to watch?! Nowdays there are soooo many "new" ideas about raising a kid. There are actually parents who don`t let their kids watch Tom and Jerry, because they say its too violent (seriously!!! I would say something nice for these people, but...). But its OK to watch animations about money, and how the EU works, and what a country does wrong....No its not! Most of us would never deal with anything that has to do politics, if we could. If it didn't affect out lives, who would be the masochist to listen them lie everyday? Nobody, but most of don`t have a choice, because we need to know what new taxes are coming, whats will be the next law that will make out lives more complicated, how much are they going to cut down from my salary next month. We, adults need to watch the news, and be informed about these things, not our kids. Yes, kids need to learn about the world. But why don't we teach them about the beauty of a snowy mountain, about the wonders of the sea, why don't we teach them useful things like building a tent ( if we go on like this, might need this knowledge one day, but by then nobody will care about what Germany thinks Hungary does wrong) or show them how fun is it to lie on a meadow and count butterflies, show them how fun is it to climb a tree, ride a bike, or watch the clouds and try to figure out what they are shaped like. These are things our children should learn, they can learn about the rest later, if they want to. If they don't? It wont be a tragedy, but if we take away their innocence it will be.

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Cyprus says: NO!!!

And there is light at the end of the tunnel! At least that`s how I see it. Finally somebody said no to a bailout demand. In the recent years we got used to hearing demand from the EU, the IMF, the ECB and warning after warning from Germany and others that unless the troubled countries do as they are told (without any negotiations) they will go bankrupt. But nobody up to now called them out on their bluff. And yesterday Cyprus finally did it. So congrats!! Of course this brings with itself a whole new set of questions, but for a moment lets just celebrate the fact that the Cyprian people said no and so did their parliament.

They said that either Cyprus implements these measures, or they go bankrupt. So now that they did not, this should mean that they go bankrupt, pulling with themselves maybe even the whole euro-zone. Unfortunately I don`t think that they are going to let this happen. Probably they will come up with some different terms, or it might even happen that the "Dictators" have to back up and save Cyprus even like this. If we just look at things on the surface this would be logical, since they invested plenty of money and time trying to avoid the collapse of the euro-zone the last couple of years, so why give up now? But this could mean that countries who have been bowing and saying yes to everything on bailout terms might get a little angry. Because lets face it, for example the Greek people have been saying for a long while now, why don't you negotiate at least with them? And now if Cyprus gets saved even though they don`t do as they are told, then why should the other countries implement anything? If you get saved whether you do what they say or not, then why do it?! So this could be a ground for lots of anger bursting out, because up to yesterday we were all told, that do it or you will go bankrupt. Even though nobody thinks about the other side. If Cyprus goes bankrupt it will not just have an affect on Cyprus. It will have an affect on those countries too that are holding us at gunpoint. If the Greeks would have had the courage to say no earlier, maybe by now we would now how this is going to play out. Unfortunately they didn't, so now is the time to find out. The EU will have a big problem if now they are forced to back up, because they will not have the upper hand the next time there are negotiations about bailout measures.
On the other side in a couple days we might have to face harsh reality. That the EU says if Cyprus doesn't bend, we will not help. And then comes the wait... Whether Cyprus goes bankrupt alone and the rest survives, injured but still saveable. Or we all go with Cyprus down the drains. Because it can happen that after Cyprus exits the euro, other countries will follow it in bankruptcy. And then it can all go down like the domino....one after the other, and we may have to learn to live in a different world.
But before this happens lets also look at this dispute a little deeper. Because don't forget this time its not just about Cyprus vs. EU, there is also Russia in the picture. And we might be close by, and we might have peace on the surface, but it might not be so nice if we scratch this surface. If Cyprus in any way implement these or similar measures and Russian investors take their money out of the Cyprian banks, then those banks might have to close down forever. On the other hand, if Cyprus doesnt get the bailout money the banks still might have to close down foerver. Well, thats a tricky one...but if they don't vote and the Russian investors do leave their money in the banks, who is to say that if on Thursday they do open the banks the Cypriots will not take their money out, which could also lead to bankruptcy of them. I sure would not feel safe leaving a cent in the bank after this and I am assuming I am not alone with this thought. Because now it was a "small" amount they try to take away from it, but what`s the guarantee that next time this will not be a bigger percentage?
But back to the Russia vs. EU match, or I could say Russia vs. Germany (I seem to remember a couple of these battles over the time of history....) and lets see who has the stronger punch, who will win this game? Because it`s not Cyprus, that's for sure.

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Welcome to the Club Cyprus!

I mean of course the club of countries bailed out by the EU. I made the mistake of listening to the news Saturday evening...maybe I shouldn't have because I almost got a heart attack. The first news that they said was that over Friday night Cyprus, the EU and the other participant agreed on a bail out package for Cyprus. At first of course every naive thinks: Hey, after 8 months you managed to agree, congrats! (Of course i do not agree with bail out packages on a personal level, but you have to have a positive attitude to things. So if a group of politicians can agree on more then on what to have for lunch during their meeting its a step forward for them...)
And then comes the cold shower, of on what terms? And the other little comments. I had lots of problems with what they said on TV, so lets go in order.
The first thing that made me want to kill somebody was the levy that they planned to take away from the people`s savings... And of course later it turned out its not a plan, or something they will implant, they simply solved the problem by closing down all accounts. Just before people could wake up and take their money out from the bank. No, No, Don't  you get any ideas.... So imagine that in these hard days especially, you scrape and you collect something. It does not have to be a lot, it can be even the smallest amount. So you collect your little savings for you know, small people`s reasons, like lets say you want to send your kids to college, or you thinking about the unlivable pensions now days, or you thinking you could loose your job and until you get an other you could live off from this, or an illness can come in the family and you need to cover bills, or you are just thinking about your next electricity bill...or you could be thinking of some dreams, like renewing something in your house, or going for vacations next year, or getting married...It could be almost anything. Because most of the people can not say, that my house is paid for, my car is paid for, all my kids are already out of college and supporting themselves, I can afford two vacations every year, and I am debt free so I just have my saving because I there is nothing better I can do with my money. Well, in the world where I live this last one is not the common case. So we have lots of normal people, with their normal problems and dreams and Saturday morning they wake up for the fact that the money what they earned and saved is not theirs to do so as they please. That`s something to wake up for.....Nice....Correct me if I am wrong, but lets assume that I am still talking about an average worker who already taxes after this money, once when you earn it, then again when you make a profit on it and now an extra "tax" just because the government says so. And on top of it they don`t even give you a choice about it, they simply close everything down. What if lets say I have my savings in a long term investment, which if it is broken then I do not get the profit I am suppose to...Just wondering, who is going to repay that? Or even if I don`t have it in a long term investment, I just don`t want to touch that money and I would say ok I pay, because I don`t have a choice, but I don`t want to pay it from my savings, I have enough money at home under my bed, then again I do not have a choice about it, right? Or lets say, that I am a fan of organizing and in the family we have  six different savings account, one for college fund for the kids, one for next years vacation, one for the renewing of the kitchen, one in case something happens and one-one for the kids, in case they want to get married or start their lives, then they get to tax them all? Because then this does not come out for the percentage they are throwing around, even if all of these accounts do not hold 100.000..... These were my first thoughts, but before I could get a heart attack from this the reporter was going on....
And then the second thing he said pissed me off, that Cyprus is in this situation because of Greece. Seriously? You people got nothing better then to blame everything on Greece? Greece and Greek people have enough problems without everybody always pointing the finger at them!! Lets revise, just because I am a reasonable person. So Cyprus has 1,099,341 and Greece has 10,815,197 people. Cyprus suppose to have a growing, blooming economy (or maybe not?!), I`m sure I don't have to say whats the situation in Greece ( but as a reminder not a blooming economy, not even close). Cyprus`s GDP (current): $24.69 Billion US Dollars, Greece`s GDP (current): $298.73 Billion US Dollars (data from the World Bank). So I have two questions: 1. If Cyprus had so much money that they could have invested enough to potentially bankrupt them then it should not be a problem, since they have so much money, no? 2. Or if they didn't have so much money to invest then this could not have driven them to bankruptcy, right? Or do I see this in the wrong way? If I do, I would love for somebody to try to explain how is it, that a country that is exactly one tenth of Greece could have saved Greece first and then go bankrupt because of it?
And then came the third little shower, which was nothing compare to the first two. So as now days its normal, they call up somebody who lives in Cyprus. So let me quote some from the conversation ( not word by word):
Reporter: How do you feel about the decision? 
Lady: Of course I am not happy, and basically very angry.
Reporter: Didn`t you think that you have to take part in repaying the debt? Take responsibility?
Lady: Of course I did, but not like this.
And there it is, the second question line of the reporter was what triggered me. I`m sorry, did she spend it this money? Did she make this debt? Its the same attitude in Greece, Spain, everywhere. It doesn't matter who made the debt (politicians), we were not even born yet or we were too young to even have a chance at saying don't spend that money, but we got to pay it back. You are kidding, right? We have no saying in how they spend the money, or even on the part of how they try to collect it back from the people, we just have to pay for it. Because they say so!
And then I am asking again, why people are not on the streets with torches and pitchforks? Why? How long can they get away with stuff like this?
And lets go back to the topic. Since then some new thing happened, but I was trying to wait before I post, maybe get some more info...
So since then president Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday that did not want this, and he understands the anger and rage of people. Excuse me, he was not present at the negotiations? If he did not want this, why did he agree to it? Or was he playing on his phone when they were discussing this point of the deal? And he said he will try to change it. Change it to what? 9,9 % to all? Because he already agreed, and now its only the matter of passing it throw the parliament, no problem! If he wanted changes maybe he should have done it at the table before ti was a done deal, not after feeding people bullshit.
And then what I read in the newspaper, the EU did not expect this reaction from the people. Why? What did they expect? That people will be like, yes here is my money take it. Take it all! No problem!
And of course there is also the method, closing down first the account, and now they are not opening the banks. Hmmm.....that seems to be the solution.... I think they should keep them closed forever, to ensure people never take any money out from the banks so they don't go bankrupt.
And then there is the promise of this will not happen anywhere else... What I saw in the last years, is experimenting. They are experimenting how far they can push the people in one country, if they take it then they do it in other countries too... 
I wish that all the people of the world, we would have the sense and the courage to do something about this, so that this can not happen. We suppose to live in democracies, we suppose to have rights and freedom, but some of us woke up in a dictatorship where politicians can decide about our money without our permission....I wonder what would happen if tomorrow everybody all over the world would decide to take their money out of all the banks? Maybe that would change their attitude...maybe...

Greek Soup Kitchen

   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 :-)

Doctors on Strike

  We have a tendency to look at medical doctors in a special way. We think that they are some magical creatures, who can never be tired, with whom we can be rude and impatient, at whom we can yell, and we can completely disregard that they are human beings who work harder than almost any of us with more responsibility then all of us, since this is what they chose. They swore to take care of us in our hour of need, no matter what.

  Have you ever stopped for a moment to think, that to be a doctor one has to study the longest years in universities, that once they have done that they still have to go through the years of specializing, and even after that they can never stop studying? Or that they scarifies time from their personal lives and loved ones, because after work they still have to study or do some paperwork? Or that they work extremely long hours, sometimes with no rest, sleep or a lunch break, and even after 30 hours of work they still have to provide the same amount of attention to every detail as if they just have started to work? Or that there never seems to be enough of them? Or the conditions they have to work in? Or that they work under enormous amount of pressure, because they are responsible for other people`s lives? Or that they need to make hard decisions in seconds, because someone`s life is depending on it? Or that they put their lives in risk every day for us?

  Most people don’t think about what`s behind the scenes. They don’t think that when you are sitting in an office or in the emergency room and by being impatient and making a fuss you don’t just disturb the rest of the patients, you also disturb the work that’s going on. People think I am the most severe case, or I was here first…in this cases people tend to be selfish. They don’t care, that the doctor haven’t slept in 25 hours, or that s/he just had to deal with an aggressive drunk who had an accident, or that s/he might have a sick child at home, or that s/he is not getting paid for what he is doing.

  Doctors are public servants…and the point is on the servant. They are servants to us all. Who cares if they are underpaid or that they don’t get paid? We just want them to be there for us, when we need them, no matter what. 

  People think it’s wrong for them to strike, because then who will take care of me if I get sick, but people don’t think that, that doctor who treats me is struggling to provide for his/her family. Why is it wrong for them to stand up for themselves and say enough is enough? It’s not, since there is no one else who will. And now everyone can say that nobody stands up for other workers either unless it’s your own skin. But when doctors are not getting paid its everybody’s problem, not just theirs. Because one day or another we will all get sick and we would all want to see a doctor whose main concern is to treat us, and not their family`s livelihood.

  It is easy to think that strikes are about getting a raise, or shorter hours, or better working conditions, but they are not always about these. Sometimes people just want to get what is rightfully theirs. Although doctors would have a reason to strike for any of the three reasons I have mentioned above, they don’t. They strike to get their salaries for what they have worked for months ago, and put an end to cutting their salaries further down. 

  When doctors strike they don’t stop working all together like other workers, they continue to provide emergency services. Yet, most people still feel they should keep on working, like somehow they should only care about others and be there for others, when it seems that no one cares about them and there is no one there in their need of hour.
 

Please comment, I wold love to hear you opinion. Thank you :-)

Imagine there's no countries

John Lennon: Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one

     I want to live in a better world. In a much better world. People always say there is nothing you can do about it, the world is how it is... and one person can`t change it. Maybe they are right, but i believe that even one person can make a difference. We have to try, if we try we might fail, but if we don`t even try how we are going to explain it to our kids? How we are going to look in the mirror in couple years down the road? I know that most people think this is cliche, but I am truly filled up seeing our world in this state. I see young people being so disappointed in life, like they have nothing to live for. No future to look forward to. Parents that give up their kids, because they can`t feed or clothes them. Bright young people with diplomas without a work, and no hope of landing a job an time soon. Middle aged people, who got fired and they cant find an other job. Retired people who cant survive after a lifetime of work... And then you look around and what you see is war, diseases, hunger...Why did we let it go so far? Its a question I ask myself quiet often. When did we stop fighting? When did we decide that our kids wont need rainforests, birds, or clean air? Who told us that we have to obey the rich one percent of the world? When  did standing up for ourselves became a crime? We think we are lucky living in the democratic part of the world, and we look down with sad eyes on those, who don`t, but do we really have all those rights they say we do? What makes it alright to just stand by and let a small group of people decide for all of us? I don't think that blogging about it will change the world tomorrow, but I hope to see that there are a lot of people out there who feel or think similarly, and I hope that maybe together we can shake up the people and change something...