Agence France-Presse/MSN News
December 10, 2010
As a promising loan officer, Dimitris Anastasopoulos used to juggle the portfolio fortunes of dozens of Greek families and hundreds of consumers hungry for quick cash.
He now drives a cab, brought down like thousands of his compatriots by the debt crisis that nearly drove Greece to bankruptcy in the spring, followed by a stifling austerity drive that brought a deep recession, wage cuts and layoffs.
Hunched and stony-faced, he blames the country's politicians for years of fiscal mismanagement that ruined the economy and forced Greece to go cap in hand to its European peers and the International Monetary Fund for assistance.
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