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They just want us to tax at EU rates so they can be "competitive" with us.

You are missing the point. They just want GW out of the WH. I just talked to someone who returned from Europe. The sheer hysterical paranoia and hatred they have for GW personally is astounding.

Isn't the IMF based in Washington?

I am sure that is true, but what is the "root cause" of this hatred? Well for one thing they thought they had us under Clinton. They were counting on their fellow travelers in the Democrat Party to sell us out. They are desperate now. They cannot compete with us directly - they must use the the machinery of the "International (Socialist) Community" to bring us down.

What a slap in the face to their abstractions (and thus their credibility with their own "citizens") if the US were to completely stand those abstraction on their heads. This is particularly true about the Euro. This was suppose to be a great weapon against us and coupled with their "Sensible and Subtle" policies allow them to level the field. Yet again we slip through their snares and are gone.

There is a more hidden problem. The Euros have over the last 20 year have been trying to build the same sort of Science and Technology "intellectual infrastructure" that we have over here. Part of this program involves counteracting the "brain drain" to the US from the EU of scientists, technologists, professionals and entrepreneurs. They have not really reversed this trend, only slackened it a bit. If our tax structure is substantially lower than theirs this brain drain can only worsen with time.

The Euros are at war with us, or at least their elites are at war with us. While I am sure that there is some personal element to their animus toward Bush, I would suggest that they are really focusing their hatred for the whole broader nation on Bush.

Have you ever help a drunk work through his addiction? In their narcissism they project their self hatred on you. It seems all to familiar too me.

They hate us because they hate themselves. They have destroyed their civilization and are too weak to undertake the hard work of building a new one.

And then they see us landing robots on the moon in the middle of a deadly conflict, while they cannot even cow Poland. Of course they hate us. But then the Democrat Party, who considers themselves to be somehow "European" hates us just as much.

And what they really hate is the notion of the common man working together in liberty and fellowship to accomplish uncommon things. That brings down the house of cards of their internal rationalizations of "superiority" to us and fills them with envy, bitterness and and the blackest hatred.

Let us hope that we are smart enough to ignore the "advice" of the IMF and proceed on our merry and "simplistic" American way.

Let us also keep our powder dry.