Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
"if things are bad why would you put a bunch of populist incompetents in charge?" Err, perhaps because it was the "competent" ones who put Greece where it is now? The "competent" ones who cheated, pillage and evade taxes? After 7 years of the "competent" very efficient economical policy, not only the Greece debts has increased, but the employment is higher than ever. Solution by the "competent": make Greece and the Greeks poorer... It didn't work but let's carry on...
Well, I hever said the previous ones were any better, but to me, the current guys look like the top of the top in the incompetence department.

But yes, this is a big faille in the EU. The EU, we were told, was supposed to protect. And what they want is to cut pensions... What a great plan to rescue a country that was pillaged by the bankers and "investors"!!!
Sadly, there isn't all that much you can do from the outside to protect a nation from the stupidity its own citizens manifest when it's time to vote for their leaders.