Look at the Guardian link I provided. Many of your comments and questions are answered there. It looks at how the degree of austerity measures has affected the rate of recovery for various countries.

Remember, not all public servants are equal. Privatization will cut the count of "public servants", but can actually increase the cost of the service for a net loss to the economy.

Actually, once they have once and for all ceased even trying to pay back the loans, they will be running at a surplus. A bit of currency devaluation will be a boon to their significant tourist trade.

I'm not claiming it is the best possible solution, but since the IMF et. al. won't quit flogging the dead horse that is austerity, it may be the only option open to Greece.

THIS! Mod up!

Don't forget visual impairment. They may be depending on the splat looking thing next to the red thing being the send button. Move it and good luck.

I think the difference is "gave" vs "loaned." Gifts do not get repaid. Nor loans, if you are Greece, but that is a different topic altogether. In other words a gift, like you are pointing out, has no bearing on this conversation whatsoever. Not even a tiny bit. It is an interesting subject but it has nothing to do with this subject unless you are saying the loans to Greece were gifts. If that is what you are saying then why are you worried about them paying it back?

I am Amerindian, Micmac from Northern Maine, and I believe you are on my lawn.

And you are only downloading music that you have permission to use... Uh huh... Nope, do not believe you. I have absolutely no reason to believe you. You might as just fess up and be honest at this point. I pirate music all the time. I do not take it and then make money from it. There is the difference and we all know that you are pirating your music and there is not one damned thing you can say to change that.

That was a long read but interesting. It gives a nice, and different, view. That is, frankly, a dilemma that I am not sure how to solve. The people that live there should have the right to determine the growth and if that means a poor business growth climate then that is their choice. That is all I can come up with. I suppose you could say that people have a right to live and do business where they want but I do not feel that they should do those at the expense of those who already live there.

No no... A couple of them whined and cried. It is obviously effective just by your emotional response. Knee-jerking silly responses about me, the person who did not do it, shows how emotional it makes you. It is funny, really. Do go on about idiocy...

Fitness requirements stop at age 42.

You sir, won the internet yesterday. I am behind the times. However, it took me a minute and then I finally read your name. Too funny.

I don't recall those as being radiation hardened. There is the idea of using multiple COTS chips with the extras being for fail-over but then you have the added weight which really does matter.

The whole Intersteller thing with love being the 5th dimension? Yeah... About that? I think we can stop calling it science fiction and just call it fiction. Additionally? It seemed like they used a hat to pull out a standard plot line, three standard tropes/plot twists, and five real bits of science that they did not actually understand. Then they wrote a horrific story to combine them and, of course, had to throw in an entirely absurd premise (love beats physics) because, otherwise, everybody is dead. Then they dragged the movie out with mindless inanities and special effects that pale in comparison to the average effects being rendered today. It is not even bad in a good way, it is just bad. It sucked.

Sure, and then Greece will default and exit the Euro. That is probably the best outcome for Greece in the long run anyway. Of course, it will mean no more pay back on the debts at all and it will damage the Euro.

Remember, there are several other countries in a similar (but not as severe) condition as Greece. They are, no doubt, watching very carefully to see how this works out.