I don't understand what the Greek public wants

[King]

This thread reads like an international politics discussion shoehorned into the restaurant scene from Reservoir Dogs.

Then again, maybe all threads do. 

[Yelnoc]

They don't want to (literally) pay half their incomes or more taxes to the government that got them into this mess in the first place.  And they do not want to surrender their sovereignty to an incompetent supra-national organization.

That's very nice to say, but actually the Greek are quite positive on the EU. It's their own political system they hate.

And that is why the word"Troika" has been bandied about so negatively?  Remember, it is not just the EU we are talking about here.  You are right that they hate their political system though; and with good reason.

They don't want to (literally) pay half their incomes or more taxes to the government that got them into this mess in the first place.

I'm pretty sure they don't want to pay any taxes, ever and that's a good chunk of the problem.

So blame the indignant many for the faults of the greedy few?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They want the nightmare to end.

[opebo]

Greece is complaining because austerity will turn them into Estonia.

Precisely, lief, and in fact it was 'complaining' which made them better off than Estonia.

[Beet]

Gustaf, your statistic about the Greek unemployment is wrong. It's 17%, not 6%. That you would even post such an image here is pretty damaging to your credibility, because if you knew anything about the Greek situation you would have immediately recognized that the unemployment figure is far off.

[Landslide Lyndon]

There isn't a single number the jerk who made that t-shirt got right.

Unemployment is 16,5%, minimum wage is 593 euros, and that's just from the top of my head.

[Gustaf]

Gustaf, your statistic about the Greek unemployment is wrong. It's 17%, not 6%. That you would even post such an image here is pretty damaging to your credibility, because if you knew anything about the Greek situation you would have immediately recognized that the unemployment figure is far off.

Unlike some posters on here I don't really post images to make points. I didn't really look at the numbers. Now that I do I'd guess it comes from some earlier point in time perhaps?

(I don't want it to be known as "my statistic" )

[Bacon King]

This thread reads like an international politics discussion shoehorned into the restaurant scene from Reservoir Dogs.

Then again, maybe all threads do. 

LOL.

Now I'll be imagining that every time I read a new thread.