Greek People Are The Problem

Mark Steyn, who aspires to be this generation's H. L. Mencken, writing for The Orange County Register about the importance of culture:

Every time the government in Athens calls up the Germans and says, OK, we’ve burned through the last bailout, time for the next one, Angela Merkel understands all too well that the real problem in Greece is not the Greek finances but the Greek people.

It's that corrupt Mediterranean culture Greeks share with the Italians, Spaniards, Arabs,Turks and southern French. No wonder Germans don't want to loan them money.