How can the Greek voter base and government be so delusional as to think they can get away scott free with no cutbacks? No one likes cutbacks, and every other country will do it if necessary to keep solvent and yet we see again that the Greeks/voter base aren't willing to at all and instead trying leverage their debt in the bailout negotiations. It's crazy.
If the Europeans bail them out for a third time, what guarantees are there the cuts and potential tax increases will happen? Or for that matter, what guarantees are their the Greeks will actually collect the taxes that they needed to and are actually owed by their people with when the last two times this didn't happen?? Seems like just another delay of the problem.
As for debt forgiveness in the German post WWII case, that seems like a totally different set of circumstances. Rebuild a war torn country vs. here which is fixing overspending and previous government's fraud that got them into the EU in the first place.
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