take on the greeks

This Greek bailout disaster really has me PO'd.  not just because I don't care that much about any of this stuff but mainly because the defiance these joe schmo-opolis' have when it comes to making any austerity cuts.  These guys have been living on easy-street too long, with their 50 year old retirement age, their 32 hour work-weeks, their monopoly on body hair and their laissez faire attitude about having to ever work harder.   First the entire continent bends over backwards to give you a handout and then you shoot the idea down dead on arrival by putting it in the hands of the same lazy folk who have already proven over-and-over again that they don't like paying their taxes.   If this thing was just about a bunch of gyro eating dudes with bad BO, that would be one thing but this entire mess has my 401k looking like crap again.   I get exactly that no public referendum will ever vote to cut pension funds which are the reason you can't leave this in the hands of the average guy.

These guys can't get somebody to show up to work on a given day but when they protest they all of a sudden have a million guys on the march.     

I remember when there was tongue-in-cheek talk about the Greek's selling a bunch of those Islands to pay off their debt and i'd see a bunch of greek-guys screaming that this was akin to stealing their soul and the only thing I'd ask is.. how do you expect to pay for anything if you are never willing to give anything up.   It's like trying to trade for Calvin Johnson by offering Bernard Scott and Marques Colston

you can't imagine how little these Europeans work.   My European family -who all live in a country without any debt fear - all work 30 hours per week and that's considered full-time.  

ontop of the 30 hour workweek they get 6 weeks of vacation, tons of holidays and a million personal days... it's a shock this thing has lasted as long as it has..