New generations in Europe tipping into homelessness

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/12/uk-europe-homeless-greece-idUKTRE78B3PD20110912

(Reuters) - After 18 years cooking moussaka and roast lamb in restaurants around Greece, Petros Papadopoulos prepares lunch for 50 in a place he never expected to end up -- as a resident of a homeless shelter in Athens.

The soft-spoken chef, who admits he is not giving his real name for fear his friends and relatives will find out about his situation, had just bought a flat and was hoping to start a family when his dream was crushed by Greece's economic crisis.

In 2010, he lost his job to Greece's worst recession in decades and joined the ranks of tens of thousands of unemployed. When he could no longer afford his mortgage, he lost his home and was forced to roam the streets.

"I felt like I was living in a movie. My life changed 180 degrees. I was lost," Papadopoulos said, wringing his hands as he recalls how he struggled to find a sleeping place in an abandoned building. "The street is unbearable."

[marmar]

1. And for no good reason.

People of the world - it's time to rise.

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2. +1

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3. +1

[Warpy]

6. People of the world will rise, they have all through history

when the upper classes have stolen everybody else into privation.

It's why I keep hoping an enterprising home woodworker will start making scale model guillotines to put in appropriate places, to remind the ruling classes that their money won't protect them when it happens here.

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4. K&R

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5. Where's the DUers arguing that he was living too high on the hog and deserved it?

Fuck.

Useless.

Stupid.

Psychopaths.

I really and truly believe that they love suffering even more than money, that the money is the excuse and the tool, but not the motivation.

For money you'll destroy whole countries, and follow through by forbidding them to repair themselves?

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7. Fuck

Austerity and the Banksters.