Spain Recoils as Its Hungry Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal - NYT

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/world/europe/hunger-on-the-rise-in-spain.html

Spain Recoils as Its Hungry Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal
By SUZANNE DALEY

MADRID — On a recent evening, a hip-looking young woman was sorting through a stack of crates outside a fruit and vegetable store here in the working-class neighborhood of Vallecas as it shut down for the night.

At first glance, she looked as if she might be a store employee. But no. The young woman was looking through the day’s trash for her next meal. Already, she had found a dozen aging potatoes she deemed edible and loaded them onto a luggage cart parked nearby.

“When you don’t have enough money,” she said, declining to give her name, “this is what there is.”

The woman, 33, said that she had once worked at the post office but that her unemployment benefits had run out and she was living now on 400 euros a month, about $520. She was squatting with some friends in a building that still had water and electricity, while collecting “a little of everything” from the garbage after stores closed and the streets were dark and quiet. ...


For a growing number of people, the food in garbage bins helps make ends meet. Such survival tactics are becoming increasingly commonplace in Spain, where the unemployment rate is over 50 percent among young people and more and more households have no adults with jobs.

[lovuian]

1. the worker will rise up

Karl Marx is right
It is just a matter of time

[MadHound]

2. A shame that Americans aren't recoiling as well,

Since here in the land of plenty, that sort of image has been all too common for far too long.

[fascisthunter]

3. And I'm Sure the Bankers and Their Paid off Politicians are doing just fine

To create a mound, you must dig a hole... there is no escape from this reality. Too few benefit from this mound.