"Nobody is telling the Greek electorate how to vote, well none outside the country that is"
In practical terms they are - instigate crippling austerity policies or we'll ruin your economy.
Comparison with what is happening in Greece, and other countries in crises which have been cause by worldwide banking greed and dishonesty (none of the rightists here have bothered to deny this) is facile.
Even as far as personal loans are concerned, people all over the world were pressurised into borrowing money and did so believing it was safe - "because the bank manager said it was"
THat is the root cause of mortgage arrears, homelessness and increasing poverty.
How about you taking your had out of the sand and dealing with that one PAL?
If I, as an electrician. had advised a lighting circuit that caused a fire and burned a house down, I would quite likely be facing a charge of criminal negligence.
What did the bankers do? - go to the government for a bailout, and when they got it, awarded themselves massive bonuses to put right their own mess.
Deal with that one too!!
Jim Carroll