[TigerLikesRooster]

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[Opinionated Blowhard]

Political unity, a common currency, border-free travel and lasting peace

That's the "European Dream"? If you believe that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. The "European Dream" is having someone else pay for you to live the good life. Sit on your butt with your hand out expecting to be provided a living for doing nothing. The European Dream was that the productive class would remain stupid enough to keep paying for the freeloader class. Yet, like all Ponzi schemes, it is coming crashing down. And we aren't far behind them.

[GeronL]

I am one of those people. I am one of those idealists who have always believed in the European idea and will continue to do so. It was and still is incredible how this continent has bundled together its economic, political and military forces

How is that working for you?

[GeronL]

That “Constitution” was, what, 500 pages??

[Erik Latranyi]

The European Union could have worked if they truly became a union of free states with open competition.

Instead, the European Union is nothing more than special protections for certain products/countries/companies and another massive layer of government bureaucracy piled on top of every nation’s already bloated government.

The idea will be tried here in North America, I fear, as a response to our declining economic situation. Unfortunately, spending will continue out of control and it will only result in further collapse of freedom and capitalism.

[Buckeye McFrog]

..and if you can’t make a union with France, Sweden and Portugal work out, what are the odds for your Global Government involving Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Argentina and North Korea?? George Soros, call your Therapist!