Memo to Merkel: Tell Obama to Take a Hike

http://townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2013 | Pat Buchanan

[NKP_Vet]

Chutzpah. I believe that's the word for it.

Just days after learning the Americans have been tapping her phones and taping her conversations, Angela Merkel has been publicly upbraided by the U.S. Treasury for being a bad global citizen.

What did she do to deserve this?

Merkel just won a third term as chancellor with a record vote and has an approval rating near 80 percent. But she is a bad global citizen because Germany is running the world's largest trade surplus.

The Washington Post thinks the Treasury's tongue-lashing is overdue, as does Paul Krugman of the New York Times:

"In this environment, a country that runs a trade surplus is ... beggaring its neighbors. It is diverting spending away from their goods and services to its own, and thereby taking away jobs."

Is this not astonishing?

[NKP_Vet]

Pat Buchanan on the Kenyan wiretapping every nation of the world, friend and foe alike. Peewee's pouting that Forbes shows Putin and Merkel as the two most powerful people in the world. Urkel has been ignored again. Going to take his marbles and go home.

[Mouton]

Gee, I fondly recall the days when we ran huge trade surpluses. Things seem to be much better for us then.

[MestaMachine]

Oh, G-d, how I wish.
Do you think he knows where ‘home’ is?

[saintgermaine]

At least she knows what she is doing and that piece of art who is running the show over here along with his dummies unfortunately doesn't. Very sad indeed......This is what happens when a good portion of the public happens to be dummer than a rock.

[DemforBush]

“In this environment, a country that runs a trade surplus is ... beggaring its neighbors. It is diverting spending away from their goods and services to its own, and thereby taking away jobs.”

Wow. Just wow.

[Leaning Right]

Memo to Merkel: Tell Obama to Take a Hike

Merkel (and every other world leader) will eventually realize that this is not Reagan's America anymore. We are now a nation of scam artists and community organizers. And that will not change going forward.

[TigersEye]

"Deer Germanee,

Stop making money and just fokus on baling out the other Uropeeun nashins like Grease.

PS: You tok too much on the fone.

Sinsearly yores The Won"

[nathanbedford]

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