Exactly—Greeks want to continue to receive government payouts that they didn’t earn, at the expense of harder-working Europeans who already have gone above and beyond in lending to them.
Pretty much the same as those who advocate “forgiving” student debt here in the US. Why should such debtors be subsidized by those who have to compete with the leaches on an increasingly uneven playing field?
As long as the Greeks continue to be political (socialist, bordering on communist) idiots, they’ll continue to hurt themselves as well. No reason for more responsible people and countries to enable it.
“Pretty much the same as those who advocate “forgiving” student debt here in the US. “
I have such mixed feelings about this...no doubt, these people were sold a bill of goods by several different parties in the education/financial juggernaut, but they bought it...and the moral hazard and complete outrage of a “forgiveness” would make a lot of people, including me, pretty darned mad. If I was making $15 flipping burgers while paying off the debts of someone with an MA in Pan-African Womyn’s Music Studies, I’d just quit and go on welfare or panhandle.