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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
- The people because they didn't pay their taxes and elected their government.
- The government because they let the people get away with that shit and cooked the books to hide the mess they were in.
- The banks (particularly Goldman Sachs, IIRC) because they aided and abetted the government in said cooking.
- Possibly the EU, who didn't investigate Greece before letting them into the Eurozone, leading to them getting cheap loans.
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Then I must say, if I lot of Greek citizens are putting most of the blame on their government or getting really angry about the austerity measures, that kind of bothers me. I just hope a lot of them can acknowledge that many of their own citizens are to blame for their current woes.