[freehunter]

If you ask your parents for money, they might give it to you at first. If you keep asking, they might increasingly make it less attractive for you to accept the money. Free money is attractive, money with serious strings attached is much less so. Germany doesn't want Greece to take the money, they want them to not need the money.

Alas, HN isn't the place to debate international politics. That's just my take on it.

[RyanMcGreal]

Macroeconomics isn't microeconomics writ large, and a country isn't a dependent child. The "put your house in order" analogy doesn't hold.

> Alas, HN isn't the place to debate international politics.

Maybe not.

[vrotaru]

> a country isn't a dependent child.

Sure. But the proposed measures still must make sense. For those willing to risk their money first and foremost. Otherwise those (with the money) will just shrug