Ok so I don't know if anything is broadcasting on the news in the United States about the Greek government right now, but they are in some trouble. There have been several protests because of the economic situation here. We were told it is more of a moral situation dealing with black money where tons of money has just disappeared. The unemployment rate here is up to 16 or 17 percent and 1000 people are fired a day. When we went to syntagma square, which is across the street from the capital building in downtown Athens, we saw a ton of people camping out with posters of demonstration everywhere. Well today there was a HUGE riot. it was so big that it had to be stopped by the police attacking the crowd with tear gas. Things are are getting very ridiculous with all the Greeks against the politicians, now I understand why we were avoiding going there until Sunday because the protesters shouldn't have been protesting much that afternoon.
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