You got it wrong: IMF opened up Greece economy for the rape, as it usual for the Washington consensus guys. These guys have developed methodologies for doing this kind of thing, over the years. It is very sad, isn't it, when a superpower want to fuck with your people? Enter the EU: aka 'the resistance'. They aren't the bad guys, they are the good ones. Remember this when someone tell you to 'exit the euro' for some reasons.
Maybe I do get it wrong. But isn't a coalition's purpose to strengthen the participants by the collaboration of many? Look what France and Italy have to say right now. I hope I'm wrong; but take my word for it: This will end badly for everyone, unless all EU countries persuade their leaders to act for the people and not the Banks. Simple as that.
Sorry, i should have been clearer. When a country get 'the washington treatment' there are only two ways it can react:
- borrow USD, entering a spiral of pain and death for an undefined time (supposedly: until the US can't enforce the treatment anymore)
- structural reforms, constantly (this is what in these days we call 'the austerity package')
So, when you see the changes in Greece in the last years you see two things at the same time: the 'washington treatment' and the 'austerity package'.
People and politicians are attacking the latter, but they really should attack the former (albeit it will be pretty much useless, because the consensus has all scenarios covered up already). The worst thing they can do is exit the euro, because then they'll be completely defenseless and degenerate in a third world country. The best thing they can do is doing 'exactly' what the euro planners tell them to do (the structural reforms), while politically move against the 'foreign capital opening' and the other measures the consensus introduced. Not simple my friend.