BringsUsTogether said:
This cartoon explains how Greece got into this situation perfectly.
No, it doesn't. It is trolling at best.
Try to see how Greece has been manipulated by the UK right after WWII to have their own officials in their lands and move things around for their own interests, how dictatorship was welcomed in the 60's, and even encouraged by the "allies", how capitalism was slowly introduced and how "helping hands" drove Greece to owe finances that had been depleted by Nazi occupation, to... well... Germany.
Also try to add to this farce of an infographic how German companies like Siemens made under-the-table deals with right wing Greek governments for decades (governments placed of course by US and Germany for this particular reason) that literally emptied Greece's monetary assets, while promising development and growth to the people. Germany is into this trick along with all previous Greek political parties in power.
And to the OP, voting "No" was nothing more than a pebble. A false hope for greek citizens living under poverty for decades, hoping for change promised by a supposed "left wing" government, which was proven nothing of the sort, neither in principle nor in action.
Prices of food and essentials are still comparable to Finland's, yet national wage is for the most part around 400 euros per month.
Greece is open for tourists to sunbathe on luxurious hotels and privately owned beaches and islands (once belonging to the country itself, now to wealthy foreigners, sold out by the right wing governments), while the rest of the people are divided into 50% working overtime to make ends meet, and the rest living with their parents because they are unemployed, and with no hope of a future, let alone a pension or a family or a place to call their own.
Greece is gradually turning into Brazil, where tourists misidentify Brazil as a country with great food, beautiful clubs and bars, and vibrant happy people. Because they will not be advised to traverse to the remaining 90% of the country that is ridden with slums and people dying of malnutrition.
Greece has a healthy (for lack of a better word) proportion of neo-nazi groups, mistreatment of prisoners by the state police, children fainting in public schools because of lack of proper nutrition, a poorly funded educational system, no application of human rights, a rigidly old-school perspective on traditional values (including sexism, no regard for homosexual rights, animal rights, and an immense overprotective force on religion which dominates the educational system and social relationships), and are now even terrified of war refugees seeking asylum cause their country is being bombed by 5 different nations.
No, whether they should pay their debt or not should be ultmately irrelevant to everyone except to the EU debtors.
People should always come first, regardless of the cost, something the EU agenda has left out of the equation.
Welcome to the IMF.
Welcome to the EU.
