What a bunch of whiny garbage.
Greece got into this mess because they continually spent too much, made half the population public employees that got better salaries & benefits than private workers, and otherwise created a giant, bloated social welfare state. This is the fault of the Greek people, and the Greek people alone. They got into massive debt, debt that would obviously crush them at some point - and did nothing to stop the spending spree.
Greeks still have a choice. They can default and leave the Euro. They just don’t want to because, even now, they want to maintain the nanny state.
I have no sympathy for Greece. None. They got themselves into this, and they should count themselves lucky the EU and IMF are determined to bail them out almost no matter the cost.
and the US is different just how?
govt employees from the military to teachers to cops to secretaries to TSA make better wages/benefits/pensions than their comparative private sector workers...
Well, no it isn't.
The majority of Greeks simply did what we are doing now: maximizing their own benefit based on the distorted information available to them. That's why we're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend.
Who is responsible for this really?
Lying Greek politicians, the EU officials who assisted them in their mendacity, and the lying, lazy Greek press.
Sound familiar?