For those who are convinced things are getting better and better...this is another view
My Friend Chuck Comstock visited Athens recently. Is this true?

Civilization in Reverse

www.nationalreview.comVictor Davis Hanson writes on NRO: In Greek mythology, the prophetess Cassandra was doomed both to tell the truth and to be ignored. Our modern version is a bankrupt Greece that we seem to discount.News accounts abound now of impoverished Athens residents scrounging pharmacies for scarce aspirin