Greek America

I have friends that are from Greece and they are wonderful people. I do not intend to suggest the Greeks are bad. However, it has become common to hear Americans bemoan the economic crisis in Greece and the seemingly irresponsible attitude of the Greed people that are unwilling to accept cuts in their standard of living.

However, compare our country with Greece. We refuse to consider any changes in Social Security or military spending. We have politicians that are absolutely out of control. They write laws to protect them from accurate and full disclosure about their investments and many made hundreds of thousands on the stock market days after they passed laws and approved bailouts that directly affected their investments.

We continue to borrow records amount of money from China and Saudi Arabia to pay for more government than we can afford.

As individuals, we demand more and more unemployment benefits while our roads are crumbling. We have vitally no work programs or jobs programs. In Atlanta there are many jobs, now that Hispanics have fled the state. Where are the applicants to clean fish? The pay is over $10 an hour with 10-hour work days! No need to pay unemployment checks in Atlanta! Yet, we do pay - with borrowed money.

As individuals we continue to charge what we can't afford. Tomorrow it will end and not in ways we expect.