Posted on 04/18/2008 9:19:58 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Working in Europe and payed in dollars?!!!!
That is harsh man, i wonder where the rest of the cut is going in your company...
Your reply to AB’s argument about Europe was ‘whatever’??????
It pretty clear to me who won that one. I’m fairly sure a European will know more about Europe than a Yank.
And he does, because your argument was.....oh...whatever.....
hehehehe.....
My “whatever” was a surrender.If the Euros are content with socialism or “legislated domestication” as it were,it’s none of my concern as long as America doesn’t end up that way.
Besides,it makes it easier to compete with them in a truly free market where individual freedom,initiative,guts and national pride can’t be beaten.
Nonetheless,we’ll still be Allies if not friends,Western Civilization demands the contract if it is to survive.
BTW,you have a wicked chuckle;)
“it makes it easier to compete with them in a truly free market where individual freedom,initiative,guts and national pride can’t be beaten.”
In a truly free market ‘national pride’ wont have anything to do with it. ‘National pride’ would only lead to subsidies and nationalisation, as an ongoing theme of nationalism. See the pattern?
If you are that unimpressed with us, why go to all the trouble to having an argument on FR about it? We have possibly learned a bit (depending on your receptiveness to outside arguments), but none of us have altered our stance right?
I cant understand why Americans who so obviously don’t like our continent still persist in posting on these threads, just save yourself the trouble and desist.
Oh,I almost forgot—who the heck are you calling a YANK!?!?
I was born in the Sacred South in the Holy City of Charelston,SC—where the Ashley and Cooper Rivers join to create the world’s oceans—not to mention the place where the Great Patriotic War Against Northern Aggression,1861-1865,began!
Call ME a YANKEE—what cheek!
Dem’s fightin’ words!
>:^/
“National Pride” for an American is just another term for patriotism.Patriotism to us means the traditional American spirit that glorifies success and stigmatizes failure.
Without it we would never have become the world’s sole superpower and would be unable to compete with even one of the EU’s poorest nations.
The policies of our leftist Democrats have,unfortunately,weakened us considerably—they despise and reject the traditional American spirit.
Fortunately,those who still have it enjoy one of it’s greatest side-effects—the optimism of faith.
The thing that created our country and constitution in the first place
Yep, sorry for the slur. As I understand it, you southern boys dont exactly see eye to eye with them Yankees up north. It was one of them deadly ‘general’ terms, a catch-you-all when describing Americans.
Dem certainly may have appeared fightin’ words, but it was an honest mistake!
If I were to say I follow the White Rose, which part of the UK do you reckon I’m from? (Clue for you: War of the Roses). From that point of view, I wouldn’t like it if someone called me a Londoner, or a Southern Fairy. A point well made HR!
I’m not looking this up,strickly off the cuff so I am probably wrong.
Did the War of The Roses have something to do with the rise or fall of the Plantagenents—who had that nasty French ancestry,London being lousy with the Frogs at the time?
If I am at least partially correct,I presume you to be of a proud anlgo-saxon descent—or at least gaelic..
I know a bit of Brit History but not as much as I should.
Well, your kind of right. Welsh, Irish and English all in my line, so I guess its Gaelic-Anglo-Saxon(!) Impressive you should know of the Plantagenets though man.
Im a White Rose man, meaning a proud Yorkshireman, not like the rest of the lilly-livered softies in the UK!
Funny how important regional identity is aint it?!!!
I suppose you Yorkies are well represented,like we Southerners,in our respective armed forces.
The noble savages protecting the useless nobles from the wicked world.
Iran (and Russia) are doing exactly what you say. In Iran's case, they have refused to accept dollars, that's the main reason for the decline of the dollar.
But Iran wasn't the first to do this: Iraq was in 2002, right before we invaded. Now all Iraq (and Kuwait) oil sales are back to dollars.
If this happens it will be over with your living on deficit and Chinese goods for America. A deep cut in the US consumption will generate a real river of tears then ...
The scenario you paint will be fought (with tanks and guns) by the US.
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