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Ultimately, what did existing EU countries expect?
For Greece to instantly change its trailer trash profligate ways?
Greece's failure is the EU's failure.
A failed experiment.
Each year, various states in the U.S. Contribute more to the Republic, than they receive in federal spending, other states are on Republic welfare with usual suspects on both the contribution and welfare ends of the spectrum.
But you don't see contributory surplus States threatening to disown the seeming perpetual welfare states like you do in the EU.
The U.S. Certainly needs to change eventually(sooner the better), but as a financial Union, Germany complaining about Greece spending too much and having to foot the bill is like California threatening to throw Mississippi out of the Republic.
The EU is a failure. Greece is just another canary in the coal mine.
No single EU Central Bank capable of issuing bonds is a huge weakness, only surpassed by its linguistic, ethnic, and cultural divides.
For all the problems in the US today and tomorrow, it could be worse. Far worse.
It could be the EU.
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