Why is this not good enough for the Greek people, who have not destroyed Europe in two major wars, have not enacted a hateful ideology across the lands? Certainly, there should be some 'punishment' for Greek fiscal dishonesty - certainly, there should be 'repercussions' for screwing around with the worlds' economy - but why do the punishments and repercussions not match the deed, relative to that granted the prosecutors of action (Germany) in this case?
The answer is: this is economic warfare. Germany is at it again, albeit this time with bad loans and unfair negotiation instead of blitzkrieg and racial cleansing. Much attention should be being paid to the un-yielding position of a country which should know better than to deny economic relief to a large citizenry who need it badly. This is, after all, the basis of Germanys' own "miraculous" recovery after it nearly destroyed the world.
Debt relief is the only answer, and in a just world - not one dominated and ruled by unelected authorities with illegal powers - this is what would be happening for the Greek people, and indeed all of Europe. But because people don't realize that Europe is ruled by an autocratic, fascist, unelected oligarchy, the correct action: letting the banks fail, and fail utterly - is not being done.
Until when should Europe (Germany, France, etc) keep bailing out Greece. They did it for the last few years. The answer should not be "indefinitely". In fact, doing it more than 3 times is impossible... the trust is completely gone. After that, its just charity.
> Germany's debtors back then thought that after the debt relief it would become financially stable on its own. And that doesn't seem to be the case now with Tsipras' Greece -- and Schäuble doesn't seem to be the only one with that opinion.
All this rhetoric about how evil Germany was in the wars (and, yes, they were), and how much damage they did (and, yes, they did) is not the point. Throwing around charges of economic warfare and claiming that "Germany is at it again" completely misses the point. Accusing Europe's leaders of being illegitimate and fascist misses the point. Once more, the point is this: If Greece were given the same help at this time, it seems very unlikely that Greece would become financially stable. The rest of Europe is unwilling to pay for what they perceive as low odds of success.
But that has been debated again and again before and is basically the center of the whole brouhaha: Germany's debtors back then thought that after the debt relief it would become financially stable on its own. And that doesn't seem to be the case now with Tsipras' Greece -- and Schäuble doesn't seem to be the only one with that opinion.