EU debt mountain grows to 90% of GDP

Eventually, you have to pay back the money you borrowed. I pity mine and younger generations. They will have to suffer because of so much entitlement, corruption and mismanagement. With forced budget cuts we can look forward to limited health care, low paying jobs, and little or no chance to retire. Even if we can retire, we will receive limited pension benefits.

The only saving grace might be technology. If used wisely, judiciously and without an unbalanced focus only on business profitability, we might still build a better world in harmony with nature. We have the technology but don't have the proper sense of social communal responsibility.

Let us examine our lives and seriously decide, whether or not, we, as individuals, are net contributors to society or just parasites. Make no mistake. It starts here with this simple idea. We have grown up in a culture of abuse, whereby the abuse of others to get ahead is the status quo. How many times have we bragged about their ability to get ahead in life and business instead of our ability to help others help themselves? Profitability in a company is important but it is not the only thing. In some ways, austerity is good for people because with hardship, people become more grounded and they begin to realise their sense of community that was lost so long ago. By helping others, we help ourselves. Helping by means of a hand up not a hand out.