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Ahh, forgive me. I had thought it was their crushing debt payments that are impossible to service thats causing their economic hardships.

Greece will be in a much better position as soon as it exits the Euro.

> crushing debt payments

Growth helps a lot with that problem.

What industry would you suggest Greece grow its way out of debt with besides possibly tourism?

I'm assuming that Greece has a fair share of intelligent adults capable of being productive.

... and the problem isn't that Greece has experienced no growth, the problem is that Greece has negative 25% GDP growth since 2008.

Of course the debt-to-GDP ratio went up accordingly.