Rick Nielsen , the man plays everything <| sep |> I think he is being sarcastic . I hope . <| sep |> You are aware that bailing out Greece is de facto bailing out German banks ? Just as housing benefit is throwing 10 odd billion a year into the accounts of welloff private landlords in Britain . It ' s not going to the Greek people in the sense that you or I understand a bailout . You seem to be falsely conflating Varoufakis with Greece , by the way . Greece fucked it enormously as did the EU in letting them in when they didn ' t meet the terms and fucking other economic arrangements such as the fiscal constraints of the Stability and Growth Pact after GermanyFrance decided they played by another set of rules to the rest of the EU and everyone knows as much . Varoufakis did not . Varoufakis did not go demanding the EU bail them out . He actively fought against signing up for another bail out because he claimed the terms were undeliverable and would only sign when he deemed the austerity to be light enough to actually deliver some growth to make payments . I ' d suggest that as an economist with a PhD and a former finance minister that he ' s a lot more knowledgeable than you or I and certainly not a ' fucking moron '. He ' s went on the record claiming that the German finance minister agreed with him in private that it was a BS offer , admitted he wouldn ' t sign if they switched positions but continued to push the agenda for various political reasons . He ' s spoken on all of this endlessly , as have other sources . Unsurprisingly , the EU have remained quiet on it . Seems to me that you need to look into it all a lot more and drop the rose tinted specs in your ideological zealousness of the EU .