Syriza in shock over creditors' demands

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26. Here's a more appropriate analogy

Your brother-in-law owns a small store but isn't a very good manager, and the shop keeps losing money. You've bailed him out a couple of times but finally decide that you know what's best for his business and that you'll give him more money only if he follows your advice. That advice is to save money by reducing his orders of goods so he has less stock on the shelves and by cutting the salaries of his staff.

When to your surprise the store goes even deeper into the red than before, you become alarmed and start thinking only of how you can recoup your own previous payments. You tell him that he has to sign over the ownership of the building to you, sell off all the quaint old trappings that have helped bring in customers, and cut back on what he pays to his suppliers. He also has to agree to pay you a fixed sum every week from his receipts, even if that means he continues to lose money for the foreseeable future. And your wife will be in the store every day, not to help out but just to make sure he doesn't cheat on the agreement.

Is that getting closer?