and considering a large part of it was not the responsibility of the Greek people
Understatement of the year. The PRESS-titutes as I call them---i.e. mainstream media, nightly news, govt. shills who write what they are TOLD to write--like to put the blame on the "little guy"---"oh its those low-income idiots who overextended themse4lves/took on mortgages they knew they couldnt afford" etc. Yeah that accounts for about half a trillion dollars I'll admit, but the amount of debt from the housing and mortgage bubbles which were artificially inflated through "collateralized debt obligations", "mortgage-backed black pools" and "credit default swaps" totals between (according to the White House Budgetary Office's OWN cooked figures) somewhere between 9 TRILLION and 12 TRILLION dollars. So who's got the Lion's Share of the blame? Please, people, stop going for the mainstream media's demonizing the "man on the street" and see the forest for the trees.