Europe’s Economy Hard Hit, But Jobs Remain
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Personally, I applaud Europe for convincing us to foot the bill for their security while basking in the spoils of an expanded welfare state. That's some art of the deal shit.UW_Doog_Bot said:Imagine if you will, having basically your entire defense budget subsidized, a technological headstart on the rest of the world, a free trading block that roughly covers a third of the world's GDP, and still going bankrupt.
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It really is. This goes back decades to just after the Cold War. Europe was like "cool, USSR fell, we are safe, sweet, let's spend all our money on other shit..." while a string of US Presidents on both sides just sort of went along with it and kept funding their defense. I don't blame the EU one bit for our stupidity.GreenRiverGatorz said:
Personally, I applaud Europe for convincing us to foot the bill for their security while basking in the spoils of an expanded welfare state. That's some art of the deal shit.UW_Doog_Bot said:Imagine if you will, having basically your entire defense budget subsidized, a technological headstart on the rest of the world, a free trading block that roughly covers a third of the world's GDP, and still going bankrupt.
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At the time we were happy to let those trigger-happy nuts lay down their arms and let us assume the role of big daddy. I'm not so sure that's the calculus we'd make today if starting from scratch.Swaye said:
It really is. This goes back decades to just after the Cold War. Europe was like "cool, USSR fell, we are safe, sweet, let's spend all our money on other shit..." while a string of US Presidents on both sides just sort of went along with it and kept funding their defense. I don't blame the EU one bit for our stupidity.GreenRiverGatorz said:
Personally, I applaud Europe for convincing us to foot the bill for their security while basking in the spoils of an expanded welfare state. That's some art of the deal shit.UW_Doog_Bot said:Imagine if you will, having basically your entire defense budget subsidized, a technological headstart on the rest of the world, a free trading block that roughly covers a third of the world's GDP, and still going bankrupt.
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As usual....Germany will then take overSwaye said:One day the bill is going to come due on the entire social welfare state of Europe and all that largess will collapse. Can't wait to see the riots in Paris when the government is out of money to subsidize them and inflation is so rampant you have to bring wheelbarrow loads of Euro's to buy a block of cheese.
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Spoken like a true German Canadian Mexican.Pitchfork51 said:
As usual....Germany will then take overSwaye said:One day the bill is going to come due on the entire social welfare state of Europe and all that largess will collapse. Can't wait to see the riots in Paris when the government is out of money to subsidize them and inflation is so rampant you have to bring wheelbarrow loads of Euro's to buy a block of cheese.
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you and your racist stereotypesSwaye said:
Spoken like a true German Canadian Mexican.Pitchfork51 said:
As usual....Germany will then take overSwaye said:One day the bill is going to come due on the entire social welfare state of Europe and all that largess will collapse. Can't wait to see the riots in Paris when the government is out of money to subsidize them and inflation is so rampant you have to bring wheelbarrow loads of Euro's to buy a block of cheese.
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It has no place here.DerekJohnson said:
you and your racist stereotypesSwaye said:
Spoken like a true German Canadian Mexican.Pitchfork51 said:
As usual....Germany will then take overSwaye said:One day the bill is going to come due on the entire social welfare state of Europe and all that largess will collapse. Can't wait to see the riots in Paris when the government is out of money to subsidize them and inflation is so rampant you have to bring wheelbarrow loads of Euro's to buy a block of cheese.
