Beet and Gustav,
From what I have seen, you both have some good points.
It seems to me that the Greek government is engaged in a massive farce to extract as much in subsidies from the rest of Europe before they go bankrupt. The pretended 'austerity' in Greece is just a farce.
The sad thing is that it seems that Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain my end up getting screwed by the bad behavior of the Greeks.
The European community would be better off to isolate Greece and instead concentrate on helping the other countries in financial straights that are at least making some real efforts to deal with their problems.
The farcical thing is how the rich in Greece don't pay taxes. It's interesting that spending on teachers and health care for the poor has been attacked but the fact that the rich don't pay their fair share has been totally ignored. Remind you of another country?
