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Greek economy was a scam. There is really no way to help them now. They fooled the entire world to get the unearned prosperity of the 00s.
by anovikov 10y ago
Greek economy was a scam. There is really no way to help them now. They fooled the entire world to get the unearned prosperity of the 00s.
- simosx 10y agoThis is a superficial comment. How does downvoting work here? edit: (requires karma level > 500)
- etatoby 10y agoDownvoted it for you. Greeks didn't scam anybody, on the contrary, they were scammed by EU leaders and bankers. After signing the EU pacts, there was little their politicians could do to avert the catastrophe (and what little they could, they still didn't.)
- anovikov 10y agoWell, their politicians rigged the books to get into the treaties in the first place. Things won't be so catastrophic for them (as they weren't for anyone else in 2008-2009) if they didn't report lies on their financial well-being to get accepted. Why doesn't thing go bad for Poland? Or Czech Republic? Because their finances are solid, not based on vaporware, and they don't lie to the world and themselves to get short-term benefits. And they actually work.
- drinchev 10y agoRight. And corporations are actually driven not by profit, but by ideas. Having TTIP, CETA and all those globalization pacts make this article reality in an EU country. It's not about Greek people waking up after a blissful dream, it's about nation facing reality of capitalism and bankers.