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DirtyP2002 said:

It would be too easy to blame Greece.

Check the total debt of some countries in Europe:

Germany: 1,700 billion EUR

France: 1,489 billion EUR

United Kingdom: 1,027 billion GBP

Spain: 559 billion EUR

Portugal: 125 billion EUR

Austria: 184 billion EUR

Italy: 1,370 billion EUR

Greece: 273 billion EUR

Netherlands: 347 billion EUR

Now some other states:

USA: 12.307 billion USD
Japan: 8.282 billion USD
Australia: 172 billion USD
China: 680 billion USD

 

Do you think every country can pay the debt?

 

Thats over simplifying it. Debt is not the only issue, its deficit in relation to growth/gdp and who owns your debt. Greece is running a huge deficit in relation to their growth and with no options for reorganizing their debt out side of defaulting or restructuring at the cost of the Euro.

Its a complicated issue but you can't point to other country's debt and make a direct comparison to Greece.