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The biggest question of recent years... The televisions are buzzing, and our heads are buzzing too, from morning until night... They meet, they meet again, they postpone, they postpone the meetings again, and we get no answer... So, have we finally gone bankrupt or not yet? I am not an economist, nor a politician; I am not that good at lies... But I cannot help noticing that they are mocking us right before our eyes... They say we have not gone bankrupt, but 28.7% of the population lives below the poverty line and Greece is the seventh poorest country after Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia... Very honorable... All our anxiety is whether we will receive the next tranche from the IMF. Personally, I saw no progress from all the previous tranches... No growth... No willingness for improvement... Only new measures... New cuts... New reductions... They are simply pushing us, more indebted, toward the cliff... Bound hand and foot to make sure we never raise our heads again... Now that they will also cut 22% from our salaries, I want to see what we will do... But do not worry, they say they saved the thirteenth and fourteenth salary, for now... Let us celebrate! By a quick calculation, it would have been better if they had cut the bonuses and left the salaries alone, but something tells me that not even this will remain to us... And what can one say to that poor politician who, he says, did not have time to read the memorandum? He must have had many things to do... But do not worry, the other one read it for a full forty minutes... I truly do not know what is worse: signing the condemnation of your country without even entering the process of reading what you sign, or signing consciously... I do not know what to choose... You really deserve the electric chair... Now I can hardly wait for the chance to go to some public service office. Out of curiosity alone, I want to see how much more polite and helpful everyone will be now that their little position is shaking. Remember my words: the same aloof faces whose cigarettes we patiently waited for them to finish until yesterday will even say good morning with a smile! There will be tomatoes and yogurt flying in the coming elections, enough for them to put some in their pockets... Run again, poor old people, to vote for your condemnation for another four years... And do not let them fool you again... There is no money! I am sure that once again a technocrat will take the reins; the "iron lady" has already said it, for what it is worth... Unfortunately, we have gone bankrupt, my dear formerly free and now enslaved fellow citizens, and here history is repeating itself loudly... Only now no one has the courage to accept responsibility and admit defeat. Because it is always the previous governments' fault... We found the treasuries empty... Which previous governments, my dear, so to speak, politicians? Since as long as I can remember, you have been taking us in turns, one after the other... And if only I could say that you governed differently. You governed the same way, you consumed the same way... Only the color on the little flag changed... And now that not even a drop of saliva is left, as you yourselves declared, suddenly none of you is fit to govern... We already knew that, dear ones... Now we are going backwards... To the German occupation! I am not joking! We learned that someone dared to say publicly that he asks the grandparents what they ate during the occupation so that he knows... What need do you have... Let us see how we will live... Turn off the televisions and stop watching the foolish parrots who tell us what they want, not what is true, causing confusion... Open your eyes and resist! The time has come for us to be heard! To learn what is happening to us... Have we gone bankrupt or have we not, and why?... They will not enslave us without a fight! The time has come to say the great NO! Now or never...