How can the Greeks possibly aford this?

[Longbower]

Its our fault ! The Greeks have lost their MARBLES.!

[FalconFN]

A very good friend of mine was a Greek Doctor, he lived all his working life here but returned to Greece several times a year to visit his 'home' as he still called it. I can remember very well him saying that when Greece joined the EU it was as though money was just falling from the sky in bucketfuls.

I have often remembered what he said, especially in the light of recent events in Greece although my friend never lived to see them. He described poor farmers in his village suddenly getting very rich claiming agricultural subsidies for non existant crops supposedly grown on barren rocky hillsides. Roads built to nowhere with half the funding being syphoned off and materials diverted to build big houses fror local officials.

This is all unfortunately true. I think the cultural differences in Europe weren't fully appreciated or factored in.

[STOTTO]

A very good friend of mine was a Greek Doctor, he lived all his working life here but returned to Greece several times a year to visit his 'home' as he still called it. I can remember very well him saying that when Greece joined the EU it was as though money was just falling from the sky in bucketfuls.

I have often remembered what he said, especially in the light of recent events in Greece although my friend never lived to see them. He described poor farmers in his village suddenly getting very rich claiming agricultural subsidies for non existant crops supposedly grown on barren rocky hillsides. Roads built to nowhere with half the funding being syphoned off and materials diverted to build big houses fror local officials.

 

Its no way to run a country, its no way to run the EU and its why I will be voting to leave when we get the referendum. The EU could work, it should work but the simple fact is,it doesn't. Its gone too far now to ever pull things back. That, frankly, suprises me; both France and Germany are well disciplined countries. I would have thought they would have been kicking *** from day one, laying down the law with a big stick and wearing big boots.

 

In truth, nothing could be further from what really happened. You can't run anything the way the EU was run. That I think will be its obituary

 

Indeed the makings of a ‘Greek Tragedy’!