OK
Well, those lazy Greeks!
And with so many ''retired'' early the unemployment rate is so high ...
Either there is no real work in Greece or many Greeks are working ''under the table.''
We have lots of ''retired'' people 18 to 62-years-old in America too -- their pension is called ''welfare'' and they work under the table. Rush hour is a bitch in Athens -- it's avenues full and stop and go -- they were doing something ...
What I did not see in the Athens area was a lot of industrial activity. There is not much of an industrial infrastructure in Greece. Greece is not heavily industrialized like Germany or France. Greece is not a money or trade center like The Netherlands. Greece probably doesn't belong in the Eurozone -- not on its current terms. The Eurozone is better off without having to support the weight of Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal, but only because they are unwilling to. The Greeks may not accept their ''terms.'' The Eurozone member-states of the EU are sovereign nations with national interests and issues.
June 28th may have been the beginning of the end of the euro but not the political and trade alliances of the EU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
An EU like Federation was unworkable in the post revolution US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation#European_Union
EU type federation of nations
US Americans cannot understand the national and ethnic differences in Europe. It is not like the racial conflicts in the US. Europeans have been fighting wars between each other for a thousand or more years over nationalism and religion. Wars of Nationalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism for the last 100 years -- fighting wars and wars of words.
Greece is a great whipping boy
Really, to a degree the Greeks set themselves up for this.