You first statement seems like a gross simplification. Trying to summarise a complex situation like Greece in a one-liner or with a fable is unlikely to bring much insight.
Maybe the 50%+ of unemployed youth in Greece just want a future. I doubt many of them were/are living beyond their means. The austerity measures the EU imposed on Greece don't seem to be doing them a lot of good, quite the contrary.
German and French private bankers, for profit, did lend them lots of money they could not afford to lend, indeed, and had to be saved. Yet people complain only about the greeks.
That's a bit a simplistic way to view the situation. Greek People is not a single individual.
To take an analogy, that would be like talking about a family. A cousin you have never met decide to take a loan "in the name of the family" and spend it on himself when you were a kid. Several years later the debt collector knocks on your door and you try to negotiate a deal to save your furniture.
Does "Family who have lived beyond their means want to continue living beyond their means." really describe your situation ? In that situation you would rather not want the cousin to pay ?
Ironic it was a Greek who wrote the Grasshopper and the Ant fable over 2,500 years ago.