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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6126491" data-attributes="member: 24302">You're not seeing the problem.  If Greece's private sector depended that much on government spending to stay afloat then the government should have never borrowed that much money to offer all those benefits.  It was a socialist government and what they did was build a house of cards that blew over.  Let me ask you, if at the point the government told the banks it couldn't pay the interest on the debt or pay back the principle, should the banks have continued to give the Greek government money to prop it up? When I said Greece got taken over I meant figuratively.  The Greeks had to agree to the terms dictated to them in order to get out of their quagmire.  Caused their citizens extreme pain financially.</blockquote>