Reply #39: I am intimately acquainted with the nation of Greece. [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

I have relations by marriage there, some of whom were jailed by the Junta for communism. This, after they had held out in the mountains against the Nazis during WWII while most of the rest of Europe surrendered. They're tough as shit, can drink you or I under several tables, and they don't screw around.

That said, the society has some deep, endemic problems that were NOT caused by external forces like international "banksters" or the IMF or the EU or Germany (today, not in 1944) ... the Greek societal attitude towards the social compact (i.e. paying taxes) is a REAL problem, and it's not just because they have high unemployment or crappy jobs. It's deeper than that.