The problems in Greece were revealed because the Greeks didn’t want to pay their own taxes.
The Greeks were asking for loans because they just didn’t have enough tax money.
A clerk in Athens received some satellite photos of Athens. The clerk was in charge of collecting the building permit taxes when people in Athens put in an inground swimming pool. The clerk saw many inground swimming pools in Athens on the satellite photos.
The trouble was that the people putting in the swimming pools never applied for the building permits. They didn’t want to pay that tax.
So these people in Athens had the money to put in inground swimming pools but refused to pay the taxes for the pools and then asked the Germans to give them money.
The Germans saw that and said “Wait a minute.”
That's us too, we just have a bigger credit card.