[cripplecreek]

We're watching the failures of europe and doing our very best to emulate them.

[oblomov]

We're just taking the advice of a very wise thinker and great leader of humanity. After all, it takes a village...

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[syriacus]

We're watching the failures of europe and doing our very best to emulate them.

The Europeans didn't invent the Marshall plan....we did.

The Marshall Plan, it should be noted, benefited the American economy as well.

The money would be used to buy goods from the United States, and they had to be shipped across the Atlantic on American merchant vessels. But it worked. By 1953 the United States had pumped in $13 billion, and Europe was standing on its feet again. Moreover, the Plan included West Germany, which was thus reintegrated into the European community.