angela merckle, the chancellor of germany, everytime the greek greeks come and say we need more money angela merckle understands that a basic level the problem in greece is not the finances but the greek people and that's the problem with the united states and most other western countries, too. you saw it, for example, in the riots in london last summer, which actually prefigured in "after america." i don't climb be a genius but my chapter on britain called "the deapproved city" which is an eerily prescient portrait of of people we are.w weeks later which people claimed to be attacking the rich and by the rich they met the guy -- often an immigrant guy, hindu or muslim who gets up in the morning and goes to work and opens the corner store and stand there at 6:00 in the morning and works that store until 9:00 in the evening. these guys trashed those stores and rampaged through them and they didn't mean -- when they said they were, quote, the rich they didn't mean they were rich. they're not rich in a warren buffett cents. what they meant is they got up and went to work in a way that th

that's far more -- that's a fairly obvious point but one worth make can, angela merckle, the chancellor of germany, everytime the greeks spend their latest bailout and say to her, we spent that, we need more of your money, please, angela merckle understands that at a basic level the problem in greece is not the greek finances but the greek people, and that is the problem with the united states and most other western countries, too. you saw it, for example, in the riots in london last summer, which actually prefigure net "after america." my chapter on britain called the deapproved city which is a appreciatent portrait of what happened a few weeks later when the riots broke out in london, which people claimed to be attacking the rich, and by the rich they meant the guy -- often an immigrant guy, often a hindu or muslim who gets up in the morning and goes to work and opens the corner store, and stands there at 6:00 in the morning and works that store until 9:00 in the evening -- these guys trashed those stores. they set them alite and ramaged threw them and they didn't mean -- when they sa