Tell him to just stfu and get back to work.
BTW nobody spoke on the issues of other EU members, like e.g. Greece's northern neighbours Bulgaria and Romania where people live with less than the Greeks during the worst times of their crisis. And all this just because someone somewhere gave carte blanche to the Soviet Union to install pro-communist forces in countries of strategic interest to them where there was almost non-existant communist movement compared to Greece where the UK allegedly intervened so that this won't happen. Just for perspective: people lived comparably good/bad in all three countries before WW2.
As a German, you should know how economically devastated was the DDR after 1989. And bear in mind that it was the best player in the Eastern league of non-representativeness and corruption. (comparisons with the West are another topic altogether)
Such a banking fiasco would never happen in a country filled with precise, punctual, hard-working and responsible light beings such as Germany.
I never saw the EU bailouts as handouts from the virtuous to the losers, nor do I see it as an altruistic gift to our friends in need. I see it more as an insurance. Do people whose house isn't on fire want to punish those whose house burned down? No. We all know it could happen to us.
I don't think Germany will need a bailout, but if some day they do, we should do it.
When the banks were Greek, Spanish, Portuguese or Irish, the German government didn't give a fuck about the people.
Don't tell us about regular people, we have suffered it since years ago and Merkel just said STFU and fuck off
And don't talking about the moral lessons they gave us. But ohh, the German banks are exactly the same as the other ones
Since you appear to be from one of those countries, you should see how to get more responsible for your choices and look for better representatives to elect. I don't see what's your point about another sovereign country. Everyone has their own problems, let's just focus on ours.
BTW you would be surprised how pissed off were Germans at that time, because every sane person knows the old saying: "Bankers here, bankers there, all the same everywhere." So we (at least not the bigots among us) should be allowed to speak of regular people bearing the cost of such changes, shall they happen, just as we (and YOU) did it when the same thing happened in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.
>? Since you appear to be from one of those countries, you should see how to get more responsible for your choices and look for better representatives to elect. I don't see what's your point about another sovereign country. Everyone has their own problems, let's just focus on ours.
This must be a fucking joke looking what happened to Greece. When the people elected different government, the German one did what they did.
So, για όνομα του Θεού, don't fall into the trap the media tries to put us into (for whatever reasons, I don't care). This is not about Germans vs Greeks, it's about the consistently failing banking system around the world. Only when we realise the true nature of the problems at hand, can we deal with them.
Be well and prosperous!
Why? Because German and French banks lent huge sums to periphery countries - which is why the bailouts were forced on them.
What you are seeing now is the chickens coming home to roost.
http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2012/05/10/financial-contagion...
Portuguese, Spaniards, Greeks... were sold in the slave market for the dirty tricks of banks like this. We'll never know how many Europeans will not born or how many suicides or premature deaths are directly caused by the big scam. So please, politicians, don't illustrate us about suffering when the people don't want to vote you anymore. We'll survive with or without you.