EU deeper in crisis after summit budget failure

Swiss Info ^ | June 18, 2005 | Mark John

[jveritas]

I always prefer to talk about the red counties and the blue counties because even in the majority of blue states the majority of the counties are red as the 2000 and 2004 elections have shown. That is why the left cannot win a national election ever again.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Very true. It just goes to show where he prioritizes the lives of millions of people. This guy probably puts his social schedule and buffet ahead of the lives of his constituents.

[uscabjd]

Givers and takers from what?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

However, his slower moving elite liberal buddy, the Whoreacol from Omaha apparently got hammered with his shorting the $ and long on the Euro tactic.

Serves him right!

[Redmen4ever]

Germany and Holland are the big losers in the EU re-distribution scheme. The U.K. has a special deal, negotiated by Margaret Thatcher, back when that country was relatively poor. Nowadays, following Thatcher's reform of the British economy, Britian is relatively rich. Except for the special deal it gets, Britian would also be a big loser. Furthermore, with the entry of several eastern European countries into the EU, the burden on the richer countries, and the subsidies to the relatively poor countries will get bigger. This might not be so bad if all the countries were liberalizing their economies, as Estonia, Ireland and Poland have done, so that productivity, income and wealth would tend toward convergence. But, increasingly, the effect of EU equalization is to tax the more free and productive in Europe in order to maintain democratic socialism elsewhere.

[Liz]

......the Whoreacol from Omaha apparently got hammered with his shorting the $ and long on the Euro tactic.....>

Man, I love to get good news.

[steveegg]

Have they scheduled a funeral date yet for the EU?

Not quite yet; it depends on whether Hitlery or another DemonRAT wins in '08 (in which case, the pEU dies in 2011 after 3 years of rearming by the Islamokazis).

[ArmedNReady]

"it depends on whether Hitlery or another DemonRAT wins in '08 "

Unfortunately, unless there are some significant changes in the actions of the Bush administration, the fact that Bush has ignored/facilitated illegal immigration/border security; the fact that Bush has kissed islam's ass; that Bush has not allowed the military to achieve a decisive win in Afghanistan and Iraq; and that Bush has pushed out-of-control spending, the chances of a Republican being elected in '08 are about zero. A president can either be effective or politically correct. Trying to be both gets nowhere.