Big Fat Greek Bankruptcy: A Warning to the World
THE ISSUE: Uncertainty after the people of Greece voted “No” on the larger EU bailout offer.
Entitlement is feeling that you are entitled to something that you haven’t earned or don’t deserve (“Greek Tragedy,” July 6).
The Greeks feel they’re entitled to be in debt $ 300 billion and not pay back the European Union all while thumbing their noses at austerity measures.
The Greeks are like spoiled adolescents who refuse to compromise on the money they owe their parents for years of allowance. They don’t want to give up any of their pensions or benefits.
The Greeks are frightening children. I’m worried about their country and if chaos will lead to violence.
President Obama should watch the situation in Greece very closely, so he’ll learn what the Democrats’ policies can cause. David Lawrence Manhattan
Seeing the difficulty Greece is going through, I can’t help but think about what’s going to happen to us in the future.
Like Greece, we’re spending beyond our means. New government entitlement programs like ObamaCare are going to push us further into the fiscal abyss.
While Greece is more liberal with its pensions and early retirements than we are, we’re being pushed in that direction by Democrats, who waste our tax dollars on unsustainable programs.
Will someone on the right please lead us back in a sustainable direction?
Will we be arrogant like the Greeks, who see their creditors as villains, or will we finally see the left’s economic policies are what got us to this point, and make changes to correct it ?
Because, unlike Greece, no one will be there to bail us out. We will only get jeers and laughter.
Eric Beale Mohnton, Pa.
Greece should be suspended from the European Union for 10 years and allowed to reapply when it regains a semblance of fiscal sanity.
The cradle of civilization has apparently matured into the center of European tax fraud.
The arrogance of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ refusing to accept tough economic terms by lenders deserves nothing less.
He is, after all, the face of the Greek people who created this mess by their systemically corrupt behavior. Mel Young Lawrence
Europe is being divided economically between the north and the south.
It’s unfortunate the leaders of Germany and Greece chose to regress. Maybe they ought to take a moment and ponder how these recent years have been so good to them.
What has kept Europe safe, stable and wealthy is a nation that has over the years formed a near perfect union. That nation is the United States of America.
Chris Tripoulas Manhattan
Well, Greece has voted for its version of “hope and change.” Let’s see if it works out for them any better than it did for us.
John Scheiwe Canyon Lake, Texas
So Greece’s free lunch is over. Greece’s fate is what America’s fate will be in 20 years, less if Hillary wins the presidency. Don’t believe me? Look at Detroit or California.
That is what liberal policies unobstructed by conservatives result in. Charlie Honadel Staten Island
Before liberals vote in another spend -and -spend Democrat, they should take a long, hard look at Greece.
Our deficit is nothing to be put under the table.
When it hits the fan, we will all be ordering fried rice and pork, and it will have to be shipped in from China to pay off the debt. Skip McGrory Garden City
First read Hillary Clinton’s presidential promises: free community college, more paid maternity and sick leave, expanded government health care.
Then read about soontobe bankrupt Greece: nationalized health care, early retirement, absurd pensions.
If America’s to survive fiscally, we need more work and less sitting around, more personal responsibility and fewer freebies — and most of all — less reliance on government.
Pete McArdle Yorktown Heights