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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (268342)	1/30/2015 11:53:26 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 540944

NPR did a piece on the Greek/German problem Germany..benefited by tying the..'Loans..."... to its industry...by ...'suggesting' to the Greeks..to.... Buy German..... So................Its a fine kettle of fish..................... ............................................

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (268342)	1/30/2015 12:00:42 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540944

You keep giving that narrative of what happened with Greece. But there is another narrative that is quite different that unfortunately I forget the details of offhand. Perhaps I will find it over the weekend. But in the meantime, German businesses and banks do not have the pure hands that your narrative suggests. I posted a few days ago a link to a Michael Lewis article based on one of his books that talks about how the German banks sucked Ireland into a crisis. Yeah, I know, the Irish didn't have to take the money that the Germans offered them. Lewis talks about that too. It is all much more complicated than the scenario you and the Germans like to present (those hard working Aryans being taken for a ride by those lazy Mediterraneans).