# Question about Greece and its financial problems

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 30, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-greece-and-its-financial-problems/587355 "2011-06-30T03:46:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-greece-and-its-financial-problems/587355/21 "2011-06-30T23:33:11Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> What country would that be?
> 
> To quote Charles Portis, they took all of mine! 🙂

The Dominican Rep.

This is [how it started](http://books.google.com.do/books?id=8BfRF9B02kgC&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&dq=samana+united+states+loan+dominican+republic&source=bl&ots=lUJKAcBT4b&sig=nUTL412Mxa8WXO8VvC_f62kXupM&hl=en&ei=kAUNTtP_EYjd0QHP5bjDDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=samana%20united%20states%20loan%20dominican%20republic&f=false). And this is [Samana](http://www.google.com.do/search?q=samana&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1480&bih=864).

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