German anger towards Greece mounts over bailout as Tsipras meets Merkel

Few items...

"if my son kept coming to me for money to get himself out of trouble..." Comment. Greece is not the son of Germany, nor of Europe, but this whole bailing out process has been likened to this for quite some time. Perhaps, much like that the child, Greece needs to grow up into its own. Possibly, if Greece had been more mature, and not (with the assistance of GS) succumbed to peer pressure, they might not be in the EUR and we would not be having these ongoing conversations.

Also, given the monies that have flowed into Greece from the Eurozone, specifically Germany, has there not been enough "reparations"? I just think this rhetoric s is a bit overdone, and really takes away from the focus that Greece is one of the European economies that has not been able to stand on their own.

Thoughts?

Cheers, to a cruddy topic.

On the other hand, Germany has an historical debt, to Greece and many other countries. At some point many they had their debt written off to not have another Hitler, also they made posibile the communism in eastern EU.

Thats the problem with bailouts , they eventually collapse , Greece is merely the 1st , Bonds, Stocks Housing are next ..... its never "different this time"

Every week the press reckon its 'crunch week for Greece and the EU' yet every month that goes by I notice a new headline ... 'Greece to remain liquid until x date.' Today I see its 18th April. Are they printing Euros in the basement or something. Talk a Houdini, incredible.
It'll all work out in the end... and we will all live happily ever after in the EU.

It would be tough to argue with the fact that crappy economic times brings dictatorships. People just don't go for that radical of a change when economic times are good. Keep printing, I guess...

Greece is a child spoiled rotten.

LMAO! What?

It's so easy to fault Greece for all it's problems, but why didn't the EU check Greece's credentials more carefully since they knew that it was the poorest EU country, had a history of lax tax collection, & was already deep in debt from its social programs?

Was the EU so delusional that it thought stripping it of all of its assets would somehow force it to become another Germany? Austerity has done nothing but wreck what was left of Greece's economy.

Once it became clear that it had "cooked the books", why didn't the EU kick it out of the single currency?

Giving Greece more & more loans which are impossible to pay back will only make its situation more hopeless.

Playing the blame game never really produces any worthwhile results.

Let the person who has never made a mistake throw the first stone.

good luck to all.