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No longer the stoic people of old, they are whiney and weak. And without honor. Accepting loan after loan and never seeking to repay, just refinance after extension after extension again.
How sad, really. No heroes. They need heroes.
$200,000,000,000? They want two hundred billion? Their entire economy isn't worth that much.
The sad thing about Greek politics is that the whiniest political party is the one that always gets the most votes. It sells to the electorate, who perennially have their hands outstretched, palms up.
Gimmee, gimmee.
Each political party hires party loyalists, packing them in to government jobs, doling out public money to trade unions in order to perpetuate themselves in power.
The EU itself is squeezing the life out of little Greece; they have culpability, too, but I blame the debtor much more than the lendor.
The Greeks retire at age 57, the Germans at 67. The Germans are aware of this, have commented on it, and are tired of playing the part of creditor--financing bad loan after bad loan so their happy-go-lucky debtors can live carefree lives.
Now if this isn’t the classical definition of “Looters”, I don’t know what is.
Sounds like reparations. Greek style.
Sounds like reparations. Greek style.
Just wondering if Greece paid any of the $400,000,000 loaned to them via the Marshall Plan back to the US post WWII.
How about all the stuff the Romans stole in 146 B.C.? Surely, they should be forced to pay....
The new communist guy doesn’t believe in solving Greece’s problems by hard work. Instead, he wants money from Germany. How about asking for money from the turks instead, in return for years of occupation during which time the Greeks lost their identity?
-because the turks don’t care and don’t feel guilt over the occupation.
Greece - “the Cradle Of Western Civilization”
What about Italy? Bulgaria? The Ottomans?
Yeah, because we all know that Greece’s current economic woes are the residue from German occupation during WWII, not their own short-sighted, rainbow-laced socialist dreams.
Looks like the new Socialist government in Greece has cooked up some novel ways to get more OPM.
They need to ask for another $trillion, or so, as reparations for the Germanic Vandals invading in about 400 AD.
If Greece gets $200 Billion, imagine how much Poland could get.
I say they have a soccer match and settle it once and for all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04
They ran out of other people’s money, so the logical thing to do is to find more people....
Now this sounds like a good plan, insult the people you are asking for money. What could go wrong?