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bonzobanana on 06 July 2015
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Player2 said:
WC4Life said:
bonzobanana said:

Crap, here in the UK we are third in the list of creditors to Greece but at least the government exposure is low so won't end up on taxpayer's shoulders plus HSBC while UK based is really a hong kong/chinese bank. A huge burden for German taxpayers though.


 



I guess at least cheap Greek holidays for a few years.

You know what's bullshit? This whole act has been to support UK, GER, FRA banks. A lot of taxpayers have taken direct hit in other countries because of that. GER, FRA and UK taxpayers should be fucking thankful the rest of Europe payed what Greece alone could have never done.

German banks have bought a ton of portuguese, greek and spanish debt. I wonder if anyone knows why?


To keep the EU political and currency union going I guess while they were pushing Greece etc to kerb their spending and stop increasing their debt.

I don't see why Germany, France, UK etc should be criticised for this. Greek politicians just kept spending money they never had and now they are basically saying to those who lent them money its their fault. It's all a bit wierd. Greece lived beyond their means basically although I'm not saying the euro didn't have a massive negative effect on Greece. However it was Greece that chose to join the Euro so again their decision. 

I feel sorry for the french and german tax payers who basically will have to pay for Greece defaulting. I'm sure it won't be great for Greece either in the short term but at least they wipe the slate clean.

What is more worrying is how this is handled. It's not in Europe's interest to see Greece do well out of defaulting because then other countries may do the same. It needs to be seen that defaulting was the wrong decision so I wonder how Europe will achieve this. Maybe make exports from Greece difficult, push to make their currency as low value as possible. So that both imports are expensive and exports are more complicated. I can see the standard of living in Greece dropping like a stone.