Shutdown Spectacle: “America Is Already Politically Bankrupt” (German left press blames GOP)

Der Spiegel ^ | October 02, 2013 – 03:07 PM | Charly Wilder

[kearnyirish2]

“The main plaza in town is Karl-Marx Strasse.”

The allies should have bargained with the Soviet Union at the end of WWII, giving them western Germany in exchange for Poland (for whom Britain & France had initially gone to war). Look at the difference in perceptions between former Warsaw Pact and NATO nations, and you see how easily most of Germany got off at the end of that war (while countries like Poland were enslaved for nearly fifty years through no fault of their own). Eastern Europe knows where Obama’s rhetoric leads; western Europe has had but a taste of it (and it has left many of their economies in shambles).

[CommieCutter]

I love how the people with Kaiser and Hitler in their past think they have a say in telling us who should be our leaders.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Germans believe Americans are stupid, fat and incompetent. They believe they ought to be running the world. I had a conversation with such a German in 1980, 35 years after WWII. I said, okay, Germans ran a good part of the world in the 35 years before 1945, what was the record. Two world wars, the complete devastation of Germany and huge parts of Europe and Asia. The US ran the world for the 35 years after 1945. What was the record? Zero world wars, the growth of economic prosperity unimagined by people before, the increase in freedom and representative governmnet in the world to an extent also deemed unimaginable.

Who's stupid? Who should be running the world?

No answer was received.

[indthkr]

Socialist State opinions bump for later....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai. PartisanS Media Shills ping.