Starving Greeks queue for food in their thousands...

Daily Mail Online ^ | June 19, 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Veggie Todd]

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.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161651/Starving-Greeks-food-thousands-politicians-finally-form-coalition-government--long-last.html#ixzz1yUWLjifR

[Veggie Todd]

Another reason to have a food stockpile.

[Veggie Todd]

Is this ping-worthy?

[JSteff]

LOL. I read it as starving GEEKS.... thought the IT business is in trouble there.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Is the Orthodox Church helping, as well?

[txhurl]

One thing geeks don’t do is wait in line. Or rather, people disposed to waiting in lines do not possess the markers to become geeks.

[Zhang Fei]

If Greeks were really starving, we’d have photos of their physical condition instead pictures of people getting on line.

[Zhang Fei]

In fact, from the article, for people who are ostensibly starving, the folks who are lining for free food look remarkably well-fed. This is what starving people look like:

[jongaltsr]

Gives meaning to the expression “Beware Greeks bearing gifts”.

[Zhang Fei]

The first picture is from the Ethiopian famine, and the second is from the Holocaust, where concentration camp inmates were deliberately served starvation rations.

[ElkGroveDan]

At least their public employees unions still have their pensions though. That’s all that matters.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Also look up “Ukraine Famine 1932-1933” for more; Stalin’s “terror-famine in Ukraine” and “famine-genocide in Ukraine.”

[C210N]

For some contrast, here is the opposite...

Socialist PASOK party leader Evangelos Venizelos

[steve86]

Stupid comment. Of course, they’ve BEEN well-fed. Artificial prosperity based on borrowing and spending OPM is what led to the current situation. So many are noticeably rotund at present. However, If distribution of food and medicine to those in need doesn’t pick up soon there may be more resemblance coning between the photos than you would suppose.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

What, no EBT cards? Yo σκύλος, σας swipe EBT!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

That’s what I was wondering as well.

I’m not belittling people who may be in need, but this needs a little discernment.

I hope the churches are also helping them.

[MadelineZapeezda]

I am sure they are, just like the IOCC (International Orthodox Christian Charities) is already there with medical supplies

[Zhang Fei]

Stupid comment. Of course, they’ve BEEN well-fed. Artificial prosperity based on borrowing and spending OPM is what led to the current situation. So many are noticeably rotund at present. However, If distribution of food and medicine to those in need doesn’t pick up soon there may be more resemblance coning between the photos than you would suppose.

It's a bunch of BS. Even during the depths of the Great Depression, nobody starved, and that was before the Green Revolution that increased crop yields by an order of magnitude. Europe is self-sufficient in food. If people are prepared to do odd jobs and barter their labor while waiting for something better, they can eat without asking for handouts. But that would mean actually working for a living...

[JRandomFreeper]

Even during the depths of the Great Depression, nobody starved,

Not true. 4 million starved to death in the Great Depression.

Some folks don't have a clue.

/johnny

[Zhang Fei]

Not true. 4 million starved to death in the Great Depression. Some folks don't have a clue.

This is false.