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Well, the options say it all. what is your opinion? Imo no one should help the thieving bastards, as obviously they are not prepared to change their ways. Greece is in this dire situation and has already lost about 2 billion euro in 2010 due to the numerous strikes and protests for the new harsh measures in just 2 months. What all these people who strike don't get is that their situation will become way worse if those measures were not applied. Always short-sighted and always selfish. And always it's someone else's fault: the evil Germans, the markets etc etc
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Mar 19, 2010, 12:09 pm
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I'm not the biggest specialist about the situation in Greece, but from what I heard the main issue lies on the government which is tremendously corrupt and bureaucracy just eating all the money. IMO, strike is good weapon to get the goals if the goals are reasonable, the problem lies not here. IMO, Greece should clean up their own political mess and if Greece really needs help from anyone, that should be political and ideological help. What comes to my minds, this is the result of corruption when private sector goes hand in hand with the government and too much trust of Laissez-faire leads to the nightmare for working class (regular people). That's pretty much the same in all countries ("democtratic") in the different sizes though. I would say, Greece should insist for clearer government system and to control the private sector more. I don't think Greece will go anywhere with just grabbing "financial help". As I understand their dept is tremendous.
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the debt is more than 300 billion
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Corruption is a huge problem. Especially if it lasts for a long time. Everyone gets used to that and the system sucks in new people. I don't think it's possible that the government will change its policy overnight and get rid of the corruption. All the help coming from outside the country only solves a temporary problems. Moreover, only a part of the financial help reaches its final destination. The rest stays in the pockets of "the right" people.
If there is no help from the outside then the Greek politicians can use this fact to justify themselves in front of the people. They can easily blame other countries for not helping them.
There must be some major changes. Maybe the younger generation is not so corrupt? The whole government must be replaced with new people.
Unless there is a huge pressure to make changes nothing will happen.
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I dunno, i believe the EU shold help Greece as it is part of the union, and of course tell them if it happens again they're on their own. but what did the poor people do? it's their gov.'s fault