[peteretep]

    > When banks lend money to a country this isn't charity. 
    > They get interest payments and in exchange risk not
    > getting paid back at all if things go sour

...

    > The banks who lent to Greece got 90% of the bailout
    > package. Not the people of Greece. So it's not true
    > Greece received "several hundred billion in aid"

It's a shame that these two pieces of information aren't at the absolute top of every article, every piece of coverage about Greece.

If Greece was a person, they'd have gone through bankruptcy and been discharged by now, and the banks who'd imprudently lent to them would have taken a haircut.