Thursday, April 18, 2013

Investing In The Future

None of this is necessary. All they have to do is give people free money. The sociopaths who run the world like the idea of starving kids. It's the choice they've made.

ATHENS — As an elementary-school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future. But recently he has seen something altogether different, something he thought was impossible in Greece: children picking through school trash cans for food; needy youngsters asking playmates for leftovers; and an 11-year-old boy, Pantelis Petrakis, bent over with hunger pains.