Read the sentence again. The EU is "20 years" behind the US economy and it will take them "decades" to catch up.
For the mathematically challenged, 20 years = 2 decades.
The department of redundancy department strikes again.
Yeah, nothing is wrong with that comment.... If the US economy stalled,so to speak, it would take the EU 20 years to catch up...however, the US economy will most likely not stall and keep advancing...the EU economy would have to surpass US levels economically to catch up in the long run..which would take DECADES...not just 2.
<< Read the sentence again. The EU is "20 years" behind the US economy and it will take them "decades" to catch up.
For the mathematically challenged, 20 years = 2 decades.
The department of redundancy department strikes again. >>
Nope.
It's you who is wrong -- your math addresses the wrong half of the reality -- and your reaction is ill-informed.
The average gap between the Brussells/Strasbourg Neo-Soviet and America is actually closer to twenty-five years -- to thirty in some areas of our relative developments and the reason it will take the Euro-peons MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS to "catch up" [Even if there was a chance of that and there is not because they are going backwards!] is that we are not standing still.
If they were to "catch up" at the rate of - say - half a percentage point per year, it would take them about a hundred and twenty years. [That's "decades!"]
Fat hope!