For
239 years the U.S. has managed to stretch the American-illusion of
political-freedom to cover up what’s really been going on.
But today, July 4,
2015, that myth has been murdered.
Here’s what’s been
happening inside Greece and much of the EU
For at least the last
five years.
Bear in mind that all ‘governments’
are supposed to improve the lives of
their people; but since the
corporate-banks and the oligarch’s have absorbed so many nations,
most ordinary people have lost, not only their freedoms. but the
larger part of their lives as well.
“In
five years in Greece, we have cut pensions by 44 percent, reduced
private sector pay by 32 percent, destroyed the job market, smashed
the welfare state, bled employees and the middle class dry with
taxes, and reached one and a half million unemployed in a country
with an active population of six million,”
Alexis Tsipras said in an interview
with an Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Greek
GDP per capita has fallen to $21,700 in 2014 from $26,900 in 2010 in
current US dollars, World
Bank data
suggests.
Youth
unemployment has reached more than 50 percent. Around 55 percent of
those unemployed are under 35, according to UK entrepreneurship
charity Endeavour.
44.8
percent of Greek pensioners are living below the poverty line. Their
pensions amount to no more than ¤665 and have been cut 44-48
percent since 2010.
The
Greek suicide rate jumped 35 percent during the peak of the crisis in
2011 and 2012. Almost 80 percent of the suicides were men. Greece’s
rate used to be the lowest in Europe, but it soared during the
crisis.
The
Bank of England has warned that the Greek debt crisis is a threat to
the UK’s financial stability and could trigger wider problems for
financial markets. The market value of European banks shrunk by more
than ¤50 billion on July 29, when the Greek government closed banks
across the country and limited daily cash withdrawals to ¤60.”
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