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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5944155" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>For one Greece never had the economy necessary to pay for all their benefits.  And they went way beyond what other countries were offering their citizens.  So they borrowed to make up the difference.  Soon even servicing.the debt was more than they could handle.  They put a lot of banks who had loaned to them in jeopardy of collapsing.  You may not like it, but the EU coming down so hard on them sent a message to all their member countries: be responsible or else.  Luckily the other countries that were in jeopardy weren't so far gone that they couldn't pull out of it.  Because if they couldn't then the EU would've definitely collapsed.</p></blockquote><p></p>