Click photo to enlarge The Parthenon temple is seen beyond flags
of the European Union (EU), left, and the Greek national flag in
Greece in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. European
finance ministers eased the terms on emergency aid for Greece,
declaring after three years of false starts that Europe has
found the formula for nursing the debt-stricken country back to
health. (Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg)  Much like their brethren in
California, politicians in Greece facing the possibility of a
fiscal meltdown have been given some breathing room, at least
temporarily.  In California, it was the voters who bailed out a
free-spending state government by narrowly passing Proposition
30, which "temporarily" raises taxes to fund a budget that was
significantly out of whack.  In Greece, it was not the voters
who came to the rescue of an even freer-spending government, but
rather the nation's international creditors. Earlier this week,
finance ministers from the 17 euro zone countries and the
International Mon