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leftynyc

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17. I repeat, they were not set up

Reply to Taitertots (Reply #15)

Fri Aug 14, 2015, 01:52 PM

Aug 2015

They went for the easy money, kept borrowing and could never pay up. While they kept borrowing they also weren't collecting taxes and their VERY generous benefits allowed people to think retiring at 50 was a smart thing to do. Enough blame to go around but to put no blame on the Greek government and the Greek people is ridiculous.

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Greek Crisis - What is the Real Reason? [View all] dennisdavid Aug 2015 OP

rich greeks didn't pay their taxes, and EU hell bent on getting Greece in the EU Javaman Aug 2015 #1

Yeah... The corporate media is really beating that dead horse Taitertots Aug 2015 #2

They were all contributing factors, however, they were all by degrees... Javaman Aug 2015 #3

Is it too small to have any responsibility for the crisis? Igel Aug 2015 #9

try to get your facts right. Actually, this was all Greece's idea. DetlefK Aug 2015 #4

as if they EU didn't play along. Javaman Aug 2015 #5

Why would they?????????? DetlefK Aug 2015 #6

Oh FFS... Javaman Aug 2015 #7

It's was fairly standard accounting practices. Taitertots Aug 2015 #10

You call this "standard accounting practices"? DetlefK Aug 2015 #11

Go take an accounting class. It's GAAP. Taitertots Aug 2015 #14

And whose money should have been used to prop up this economy built on lies? DetlefK Aug 2015 #21

Careful with that line of thought, some here get manic when you bring up goldman sachs. Rex Aug 2015 #8

Short answer: hifiguy Aug 2015 #12

They were not set up leftynyc Aug 2015 #13

Too bad the pseudo moralist story is orders of magnitude too small to be relevant Taitertots Aug 2015 #15

I repeat, they were not set up leftynyc Aug 2015 #17

It's orders of magnitude too small to be relevant Taitertots Aug 2015 #18

Go pimp your youtube account elsehwere... Blue_Tires Aug 2015 #16

Our RW thinks it was because Greece was too 'socialist'. Others because it was too capitalist. pampango Aug 2015 #19

Government spent much more money than they took in taught_me_patience Aug 2015 #20