They need to cut down on their bloated public service sector, attack crony capitalism and slash taxes.
Its the only way they’re going to stimulate economic growth. And growing the economy will make reforms easier to sell.
You can’t sell jobless people austerity if there’s no hope things will get better for them.
And things are so bad in Greece people don’t see a radical leftist party like Syriza making things worse. But at least they have hope.
Only in Greece does a drowning man find hope from grabbing on to an anvil.