[samtheman]

What’s your personal take on this? Are the Greeks as stupid as they seem or is something else going on? (I just figure you know more about it than most Freepers.)

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Greeks are asking for more money on their own terms.
Go to your local bank tomorrow morning and see how that works out.

On the line is 15.5 billion euros in aid Brussels refuses to release unless Greece makes further cuts to its pension system,

[grania]

It's not stupid to refuse to pay off debts when it's impossible. The elite took the loans and derived all the benefit from them. Now everyone else is supposed to suffer so they can be paid back?

We have the same situation in the US.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Greeks are indeed stupid and lazy and have been trying to cheat the Germans and Europe in general this whole time. Their commie government was elected specifically by the people on the dim hope that they could vote themselves rich. Ireland and all the other countries going through with austerity are slowly but surely recovering. The Greeks want their welfare state without having to take their medicine.