Hope can't save Greece

During the last couple of weeks I often have this funny feeling that I live in another country and all my worries and fears are makings of my mind.

The news about the future of greek economy sound so good lately and the government sounds so proud and optimistic that's almost scary.

In real life, layoffs and unemployment are still in high levels while poor pensioners and patients with no medicine lose their hope day by day. Not to mention the little students that fade out of hunger at school, the increasing numbers of the homeless and the drug addicts.

Under the current circumstances optimism sounds as surreal as the recent predictions of foreign rating agencies that foresee good prospects for Greece.

It's the sixth year of the economic crisis and there's still no sign of neither the promised development nor the expected social explosion.

The anger of the first years is replaced by passivity and the loud voices by silence that's only broken by the same whisper every year before summer "wait and see what's going to happen by September".

The "by September" expected social explosion starts reminding of the "by Monday" diet that was never started.
The attitude towards the situation is mostly like "take what you want and just leave" but no matter what we give they are not leaving. They are here to stay and only hope can't save Greece.