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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    Really?? There are a hell of a lot of armchair economists on this forum who know a lot about very little that qualifies them to know the true picture of Greece.

    They borrowed money and wasted it.

    Now they cannot pay it back and are whining.

    What more needs to be known?
  • RenovationMan
    RenovationMan Posts: 4,227 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    They borrowed money and wasted it.

    Now they cannot pay it back and are whining.

    What more needs to be known?

    I'd like to know when they are going to stop borrowing money and wasting it.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    RenovationMan wrote: »
    I'd like to know when they are going to stop borrowing money and wasting it.

    they wwill keep on as long as people will keep on lending it to them.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    edited 25 May 2012 at 12:55PM
    ILW wrote: »
    They borrowed money and wasted it.

    Now they cannot pay it back and are whining.

    What more needs to be known?
    ILW wrote: »
    they wwill keep on as long as people will keep on lending it to them.
    and you know all of this because you've been on a holiday to Greece once, when people only took cash and you found out they didn't pay their taxes. That's expert analysis.
    ILW wrote: »
    Are they paying their taxes now?

    Went a few years ago and nobody would accept anything but cash.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Are you saying it is not true?

    Is tax evasion rife in Greece?

    Has the country borrowed more than it can afford to repay?

    Please correct me if I am mistaken.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ILW wrote: »
    Are you saying it is not true?

    Is tax evasion rife in Greece?

    Has the country borrowed more than it can afford to repay?

    Please correct me if I am mistaken.
    Going on a cheap package holiday to Corfu does not make you a Greek economic and cultural expert unfortunately.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    Going on a cheap package holiday to Corfu does not make you a Greek economic and cultural expert unfortunately.

    That does not answer the question.
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Are you saying it is not true?

    Is tax evasion rife in Greece?

    Has the country borrowed more than it can afford to repay?
    Q1. How much money does the UK government borrow every year?

    Q2. How much money does the UK government waste every year?

    Q3. Is tax evasion rife in the UK?

    Q4. Has the UK borrowed more than it can afford to repay?
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Q1. How much money does the UK government borrow every year?

    Q2. How much money does the UK government waste every year?

    Q3. Is tax evasion rife in the UK?

    Q4. Has the UK borrowed more than it can afford to repay?

    UK is not expecting to be bailed out whilst knocking it's creditors so not entirely relevant to the discussion regarding Greece.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ILW wrote: »
    That does not answer the question.
    Neither do your posts.
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