You can bank on it, you have my word! In theatres everywhere.

Sure was good times back in 2009. We had endless scandals with public money and endless cover-ups too. We had a pre-election campaign that promissed everything from higher incomes to better schools to raises for pensioners. My favorite title here is Super Schools. You can see an artists impression on the first newspaper depicted here. 2006 had an election campaign with many of these kind of promises as well. Karamanlis had a great system of hiring public sector workers, called the interview, where friends of friends could easily be hired. He invented a new kind of civil servant through his Stages program. These were public sector temps with no pension program. They were the first to go when the bubble burst. The fallout is still radiating our lives and eroding whatever positive our system had to offer. The saddest of all is the end of our social housing program called OEK-http://www.oek.gr/. Probably the single greatest achievement of the 80s OEK managed to put hundreds of working class families into homes with no interest loans. At its dissolvement two months ago it was 2 billion in the black. In our immediate circle we have four examples of people living in social housing. They are all owners and all won the right to ownership in a lottery. OEK also gave low interest loans to any worker interested. The reason this organization was so healthy has to do with many factors. Mostly it gave equity to families that would have never had any. Now all these families have to refinance as banks are to take over their loans for hefty a profit of course.

The last year has seen so many cuts to our incomes and so many increases in taxes that it is a wonder how we survive. People here in Nafpaktos are planting victory gardens to ensure that there will be enough to eat in this tough summer ahead. I wish I was exaggerating. All these months of non-elected officials telling our non-elected government what to do have tired the public. There is a need to teach our politicians a lesson. I am talking about mainstream people that want their vote to become a weapon. One party has promised to do just that, to clean up the Greek parliament by roughing up a few MPs and knocking some heads together. It is of course the Golden Dawn party, our own neonazi clique and they have reached double digit figures in the polls. Take a gander at one of their candidates...

From social security to private security...what did they expect when they started implementing haratsi taxes? The worst is yet to come so a victory garden is a good plan. The good thing about this GD party is that it has managed to deter people from buying weapons of their own. Already they roughed up one former minister. Stay tuned for the next instalment on somersaults and doubletakes.