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In reply to the discussion: Exploding the myth of the feckless, lazy Greeks [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)you like to begin? When the Greeks threw out their Government a couple of years ago after discovering their complicity in the meltdown of their economy? Or after the NEW Government betrayed the voters and failed to keep their promises to refuse to bail out the banks, AGAIN? Why do you think there have been years of demonstrations on the streets of Athens? Any idea what the people were angry about?
Read some recent history of what has been going on in Europe because it's impossible to know where to begin when someone has zero information about a subject.
Maybe check out some of the excellent documentaries that have been made about this GLOBAL crisis, yes, it was a GLOBAL crisis, not a GREEK crisis, or an ICELAND or IRELAND or SPAIN, or PORTUGAL or FRANCE crisis. Are all those people lazy non-tax paying morons also??
Scapegoats are being searched for now, as the whole rotten system is collapsing. This week Greece, next week, Spain, anyone BUT the criminals themselves.
Try for starters, watching .Meltdown, The Men Who Crashed the World' or 'Inside Job' which are both good places to begin understanding why all these countries in the shape they are in, and who is responsible. Then you can start doing what I did and do every day, start reading some of the Economic publications from all around the world which have been covering this story for years. Then we can talk about the Greek people, or about whoever is the scapegoat by the time you are finished catching up.