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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:06 PM Jun 2012

Greeks line up for free food as turmoil in country mounts

Starving Greeks queued around the block for free food handouts yesterday as the country's politicians managed to end a crippling stalemate to form a coalition government.

Young children as well as the elderly waited in line in Athens to collect the parcels of fruit and vegetables donated by farmers from Crete to help ease the devastating austerity faced by many Greeks.

But as hungry people collected food, a few miles away a new conservative-led alliance was formed, vowing to renegotiate the country's strict European bailout in a bid to breath economic life back into the debt-stricken country.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161651/Starving-Greeks-food-thousands-politicians-finally-form-coalition-government--long-last.html

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But we have food stamps.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002733836

Oh yes, I forgot to mention that... Why Are Republicans Waging War on Food Stamps Now?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/why-are-republicans-waging-war-on-food-stamps-now/258794/

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If these stupid politicians all over the world do not understand the most simple human need for food and that another empty belly creates another revolutionary, then the world deserves revolution.....

Revolution is impossible until it's inevitable. ~Leon Trotsky

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