Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
Europe is getting fed up with Greece.

Ireland and Portugal are going through very rough times. But they do what is necessary. They deserve our support.

Not Greece. In Greece, Europe is still dealing with the same lying statisticians. The same corrupt, self-serving politicians. They don't want to be bailed out.
Also, ever since day one of its membership, Greece has played the same game of milking Europe for what it's worth. They have come to think, based on actual experience, that the patience and stupidity of Europe is infinite. Add in the costs of a Greek bankryptcy for Europe, and it is clear why the Greeks think they can use this crisis to steal even more money from Europe than before.


Autists.

There is no electoral support anywhere for support for Greeks. It is against any electoral instinct that politicians throughout Europe are still trying to do the responsible thing and keep Greece - an entire European country - afloat. This sense of responsibility is not infinite, there comes a time when one realises that the last effort has been made. There is nobody in Greece to work with. The Greeks have neither the will, nor even the capacity to change their ways. (Capable civil servants, non-politicised semi-governmental agencies, at least some rationally functioning non-corrupt segments of state)
To be honest you have to admire the on them fellas holding the entire EU (and the world) to ransom like they are. I cannot see them paying anything back at all at all, sure Greece only exports about maybe a tenth that Ireland does.

If you took every single non-agricultural export and burned them on the docks in Dublin there would still be about 7-8 billion in agri products to export which is half the total Greek exports.