Ailing Greece deserves our support

I was embarrassed by our finance minister’s recent glib and disparaging put-down of our Greek cousins.

May I remind him and his fellow Eurocrats that our debt to Greece grossly outweighs the euros recklessly given by our overpaid European bankers in their greedy, “fast-buck” adventurism.

May I remind him that, without Greece, Europe and the Western world as we know it would not exist. Greece gave us democracy, philosophy, empowering ideas of love, romance and heroism, the Gods of Olympus, our insights into human psychology, medicine, religion — not only feta for the body, but feta for the mind and soul.