Building on my earlier post, there is also this gem from the same article:
"...One CDU member who used to work with Mrs Merkel agrees. "[The announcement of the referendum] was the moment that things changed. Up until then we'd all agreed to work with the Greeks, support the Greeks, pay for the Greeks. All that was OK if they were willing to reform. Many Germans go to Greece to enjoy the culture, the food, the history.
"But they also go there and see what the [Greek] government has wasted its money on.
[I'm sorry, just run that past me again? Whose money has it wasted exactly?]
You see these huge air-conditioned Daimler buses which go to nowhere with just one passenger. We've all seen them."...
This is those German made 'Daimler Buses' that Germany loaned money to Greece to buy, that he actually admits that they 'wasted their money on', when it was perfectly obvious that Greece didn't/would never have the wealth to pay for them in the first place.
As I asked, who are the mugs?
You couldn't make it up.