rustak wrote:There is a variation of this -- Greece leaves the Euro through a messy process causing upheaval in the Eurozone... this cascades to other countries like Portugal, and the single currency falls apart, plunging most of Europe into lots of miserable pain.
Oh yeah. If Greece goes, Portugal will too for sure. They're at where Greece will be in a few years.
The austerity measures have to stop. It's just insane. I understand why they're politically advantageous (who wants to be seen shovelling money into a bottomless pit?) but they're killing any chance of Greece recovering.