This analogy is oh-so-incorrect Stu. In modern-day Europe the Lemonade stand that you have decided to call "Greece" would be expected to have exactly the same standards as the Lemonade stand you have decided to call "Germany" [[can't think where you have got those names from

) though the actual hours the two operated, the prices they charged, and the wages they paid their staff, might differ. If the Lemonade stand called "Greece" went bust it would have to shut down.
Indeed the whole point is that Germany [[the country) has refused to bail out countries such as Greece and Spain after huge sectors of their economies have collapsed.
A better analogy might be to imagine a street with two men living opposite each other, let us call them Mr Greece and Mr Germany, both of whom run a small business. Mr Germany has a successful and very profitable business, Mr Greece's business is reasonably successful, not quite as profitable as Mr Germany's business but it makes enough for Mr Greece to live quite comfortably.
Then one day both Mr Greece and Mr Germany are given a credit card with a seemingly infinite credit limit and with very low interest rates. Mr Germany thinks that his business is doing OK already and decides to leave his credit card in a drawer in his house and not use it. Mr Greece however thinks that this is finally his chance to upgrade his business to the same standards as that of Mr Germany, so he uses his credit card to buy new equipment, plus a new car and a flash new suit to go along with the way he now wants to present himself to the world. For a few years it goes well for Mr Greece, but the sales of his company don't increase and he starts to get bills from his credit card company demanding interest payments. The interest payments cut into his company's profits and he finds that the only way he can make ends meet is to lay off many of his workers and close parts of his business. In the meantime Mr Germany's business is thriving and his profits are constantly increasing.
Mr Greece asks his credit card company to write off his debts, but the credit card company says they can only do that if Mr Germany pays Mr Greece's interest payments instead. As Mr Germany steadfastly refuses to do this Mr Greece is left to continue paying his ever increasing interest payments from his ever decreasing company products.
Roger
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