The Depressing Conditiions of Senior Centers in US

     Recently, I have been attending on a regular basis a senior center here in Sacramento.  It got so depressing, I was losing my mind!  I got out of there and hope to never go to a senior center again!  Being around just old people for hours on end 5 days a week is no fun; and it affected my psyche.

     Then I reviewed my past history with senior centers and found I could stand them only on an occasional basis.  I would go for a week or two intermittently.  And I attended these other senior centers elsewhere around the country, preferring not to go to any of them more than an hour for lunch.  Here in Sacto, I was going from 8:30 to 12:30 M-F.  Help!

     There's an easy solution to the problem: open up the senior centers to just anybody in the community--make each one into a community center.    No problem, then. 

      Hospitals have a plethora of old people, but there's a difference in attitude--they're being helped and emphasis is in improving their health.  They, i.e., the old, are not simply on display to be watched and pitied (by staff and visitors) as they waste away physically and mentally in a victimized setting!

Greece can't meet repayment schedules!

     The BBC has reported that not only is Greece saddled with debt to the EU Bank and  the IMF, but that the country is inundated with fleeing refugees from Africa--some 55,000--at any given time over the last 2 years.  These displaced persons must be attended to with food, clothing and temporary shelter.  It is true that they are headed for countries to the north to settle in, but the fact remains that this is a terrible financial burden for a country in debt already to bear.

     I don't see how the country can think of keeping to a repayment loan schedule under the burden to alleviate the emergency conditions of handling a constant flow of refugees over its land.