The New American website reports today (January 14, 2012) that the government of Greece is being criticized for its decision to add some questionable categories to its list of recognized disabilities.
Disability groups in Greece were especially outraged over the government's decision to add pedophiles to its list of those that the state recognizes as "disabled" individuals. Other "disabled" categories added to the list were exhibitionists, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists, and sadomasochists.
Greece's Labor Ministry explained that the new "disabilities" were added for medical assessment and to determine who would receive financial assistance from the government.
Ironically, these additions to the government payments come as Greece is drowning in debt and attempting to stay afloat in an economy that is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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