Children are being abandoned on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more.And what happens when the government tries to artificially depress prices?
Youngsters are being dumped by their parents who are struggling to make ends meet in what is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the Euro crisis.
It comes as pharmacists revealed the country had almost run out of aspirin, as multi-billion euro austerity measures filter their way through society.
Athens' Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months.
One mother, it said, ran away after handing over her two-year-old daughter Natasha.
Four-year-old Anna was found by a teacher clutching a note that read: 'I will not be coming to pick up Anna today because I cannot afford to look after her. Please take good care of her. Sorry.'
Further evidence of Greeks feeling the pinch of austerity measures is the lack of aspirin and other medicines now available in the country.Can you say Obamacare? Hello?...anybody there?
Pharmacists are struggling to stock their shelves as the Greek government, which sets the prices for drugs, keeps them artificially low.
This means that firms are turning to sell the drugs outside of the country for a higher price - leading to stock depletion for Greeks.
Mina Mavrou, who runs one of the country's 12,000 pharmacies, said she spent hours each day pleading with drug makers, wholesalers and colleagues to hunt down medicines for clients.
And she said that even when drugs were available, pharmacists often must foot the bill up front, or patients simply do without.
It's coming if we don't stop it in November.
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Just four years ago...
The Comeback Continent
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: January 11, 2008
“Today I’d like to talk about a much-derided contender making a surprising comeback, a comeback that calls into question much of the conventional wisdom of American politics. No, I’m not talking about a politician. I’m talking about an economy — specifically, the European economy, which many Americans assume is tired and spent but has lately been showing surprising vitality.”
The Greeks also have a moral problem. Even during World War II people didn't give their children away, and there was a lot of poverty and hardship during that time. People these days just don't view their children as an asset. Children are seen as a burden to be unloaded.
Lazy, selfish, and pathetic.
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