I don’t think you understand the gravity of the situation. If the Greeks were guilty of no more than bathing in the blood of Arian children, it would be easy to deal with. The European Court would fine them for discrimination, the Greeks wouldn’t pay but would promise to bathe in the blood of children of all ethnic groups in proportion to their population within the EU, and everyone would turn a blind eye when the Greek government fiddled the numbers to make it look like they’d kept their promise. After all, you can’t combine 503 million people from 28 countries and no one knows how many ethnic groups without turning a blind eye to a certain amount of weirdness. Besides, bathing in the blood of children is just as cultural as the French habit of making unhygienic cheese just because it tastes better.
However, the Greeks are guilty of something much worse. They have repeatedly and perniciously been poor in a way that shows up the short comings of how the EU and the Euro have been implemented. It's amazing how much suffering they've inflicted on themselves and others out of sheer mulish obstinacy.
They have compounded this crime by electing and being deceived by bad leaders, an action which every democracy has performed, but which suddenly becomes criminal as soon as it's convenient to tell the electorate that they got the leadership they deserved because they aren’t all experts on politics and economics.
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Greece does get expelled, at least from the Euro zone, maybe from the EU. So we might as well blame them so no one will have to feel bad about it.
Bit rough on the Germans, or is this a joke I was too humorless to get?
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