[sorincos]

Um, actually what was going on so far was that I, a European citizen, gave public money from my taxes to the Greek government to do nothing of use - neither for the Greek citizen, nor for me. So there's also a possibility number 3 which means don't trust those guys, which is unfortunately exactly what's going on right now. Both the former and the actual Greek rulers lied big time - to the EU AND to their people, whatever is worse it's everyone's to decide.

[RobertoG]

The fact remains that we saved private banks with public money and we forget about that conveniently.

I don't trust those guys neither, but, maybe we are not talking about the same guys.

[tonyedgecombe]

The situation would have been worse if we hadn't, by the end of last year Greece was only paying 3% of GDP to service its debts, private banks would have wanted much more.