Archive note: This text comes from the old archive of Nomika Epilekta and is preserved with care for historical and informational reading.

Beyond every expectation, the situation is going from bad to worse. I keep saying that things will improve, but apparently our politicians have a different view. Yesterday I was listening to an informational radio program that from time to time replayed excerpts from discussions and statements by our politicians. I truly wonder: are they competing over who will tell the biggest lie or the greatest nonsense? Thanks to them, they say, Greece was saved. At first I thought I had misheard, but apparently the radio producer was in my head, so he repeated the audio document several times. Thanks to them we were saved. My ears were ringing; I could not believe what I was hearing. What exactly do you mean, my dear, that thanks to you Greece was saved? Do you think you performed a social service? Help me understand: do you feel proud? Have you thought about how future history books will describe you, if you do not sell us off completely? Do not take it personally, my beloved politician. The attack is not personal, because to do something like this alone requires abilities and visions that neither you nor those like you, the honorable politicians of this country who think you saved Greece, have ever imagined even in your dreams. I feel obliged to thank you, dear political leadership of this country. I thank you on behalf of all Greeks who face health problems, because you removed from the insurance-fund lists all those medicines that kept them alive. I thank you because, as if that were not enough, you raised their prices so much in order to make sure they would never again be able to obtain them. I thank you on behalf of all unemployed Greek graduates, who consumed the best years of their lives studying and who considered it unfair that only one in ten had the good fortune to work and be paid in proportion to his education. Now even that one works for a piece of bread in whatever job he manages to find, if he finds one. I thank you on behalf of all honest Greek taxpayers, who with their sweat and thrift managed to buy a small home after thirty years of work, to leave something to their children. Now they must pay levies without restraint, to close the holes that you opened so that you could buy holiday homes with pools and chalets in Switzerland. I thank you on behalf of all Greek owners of small and medium-sized businesses, or whoever is left, who work from morning until night to pay their social insurance, electricity bills and taxes, and eat a plate of food from their parents because the money they earn no longer suffices. They thank you nonetheless, as they watch the labor of a lifetime collapse like a house of cards. I thank you on behalf of all Greek pensioners who worked for so many years and paid their taxes and their funds, so that in old age they might have a modest pension and free care in the very expensive hospitals that were built with their sweat and money. They thank you because they will never manage to be examined on the very expensive machines you bought with their money and that rust unused because there is no specialized staff. They thank you because the few doctors in the hospitals neglect them, having too many patients under their supervision; because the nurses are indifferent, since their contracts are ending; and because hospital materials do not exist, since you did not pay the suppliers. I thank you on behalf of all those children who grew up with dreams, yes, the dreams you demolish daily, and who, now that they have grown up, have as their only dream to receive even 500 euros after twelve hours of daily work. Money they must share with their family in order to live. I thank you on behalf of all those children who will never be born, because there is no money left even for us ourselves to live. I thank you on behalf of all Greek citizens, because you saved Greece. May God keep you well, but when Greece needs help again, please, do not save us again.