He should have told the greedy bankers to take a hike.
You mean greedy greeks.
Nobody forced greece to take loans they couldn't afford.
and Nobody forced the various financial institutions to give them loans they can't get back.
Why can't everyone see there are two sides to this and it is not a morality play?
First nobody assumed that Greece wouldn't payback. Greece willingly signed contracts that they would borrow X money and pay back in 10 years and just kept piling on debt after debt because they wanted to use the borrowed money for votes.
One person owes the other not the otherway around.
If we subscribe to this rubbish that somebody could borrow tons and money and get away with it because "otherwise it would be unfair to have to payback". Then people would stop lending to eachother at all.
So that makes it okay to impose such harsh austerity that people are starving in the streets while the rich don't pay a dime? that