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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (246728)	5/5/2010 12:46:56 PM
From: marcher	Respond to of 306849

hey, what do the greeks know, anyway? plato and aristotle were just lucky. -g- aesop told a story about a fly bumming a ride on a wagon. while resting in the back, the fly takes credit for what the wagon is doing. greeks know a bit about theft and trickery. maybe they read "shock doctrine", too. -g-

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (246728)	5/5/2010 1:27:06 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 306849

"but was it the bankers fault? For once, probably not." Yeah, in Greece, the cradle of democracy, it seems it was a pensioner/pol dynamic that just kept feeding benefits to the public sector until it became unsustainable.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (246728)	5/5/2010 1:44:09 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 306849

>>Seems to me it should be the Germans rioting, after all they're the ones getting fleeced......the Grecians are just seeing chickens coming home to roost, and payback's a beeotch and all, but was it the bankers fault? For once, probably not....<< yes, it is partially the bankers' fault in the same way that it is a drug dealers fault for drug addiction. the problem is that the people who were irresponsible (addicts) have to pay - with interest. the bankers (drug pushers) get bailed out by the very addicts they helped create - and collect interest. the bankers are the criminals here. greece deserves some austerity, just like the US does, but the bankers deserve to be unemployed and their "businesses" unwound and sold off. instead, they milked america for 1% of GDP as bonuses. the latter is the crime.