These things are not solely responsible for the ruinous state of the Greek economy, which can be proven very easily: Every periphery economy suffered from the

These things are not solely responsible for the ruinous state of the Greek economy, which can be proven very easily: Every periphery economy suffered from the same economic malaise caused by a housing boom, a crash, a bailout of their banking sectors and austerity imposed from above (all actions ordered by Brussels). Yet Greece was the only one that played silly games with Goldman Sachs to get accepted (for which nobody has been punished except the Greek people).