I have seen this:
Yes, Greeks still earn more than Germans for the GDP they produce. But believe the whingefest, please. What do we know. We're only the driving motor in Europe, economically.
Or this:
Where unit laber costs in Greece were extraordinarily high, now they're back in line and following the same rate of climb Germany does. Much healthier!
Or perhaps this:
Where debt is decreasing since the austerity measures. What a failure. Absolute failure. They wanted to reduce debt, they are reducing debt. That's the definition of failure, isn't it?
GDP rising again:
I mean I can keep on posting pictures, but you're hellbent on hating the EU and Germany. Go right ahead, it's not like we're not used to it from uninformed Americans pretending their method of defrauding stock investors is the preferred method of investment banking and that indebting yourself is the best way to reduce debt. It's not. It's the best way to speed up an economy, perhaps even force it out of a recession. But it doesn't work if you don't have the economy to actually back that up in the long run. Sure, a healthy debt is a good thing if you need it. But Greece's ratings were in the junk section.
The junk section. They were one step away from being the European Venezuela. Btw, those guys are literally using wheelcarts to bring the cash for a loaf of bread these days. Before you talk smack about the EU, who are quite big enough to see you eye to eye, you would do well to lecture Venezuela instead.
Greece doesn't. And I hate people like you forcing me to point out that Greece has weaknesses. I'd like them to be economically strong. But they're not at the moment. And what we need are European solutions, not a carbon copy of the economy that crashes the world into global crisis after global crisis.