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Germany’s Der Spiegel Calls Italians Ungrateful ‘Moochers’
Breitbart ^ | June 6, 2018 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

Posted on 06/07/2018 4:15:37 AM PDT by GonzoII

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To: mewzilla

Yes and no. Italy is undisclosed and overspends. True.

Then again the Euro is effectively a competitive currency devaluation for Germany which boosts their exports - and thus exports unemployment to Southern Europe......which causes Italy’s government to have to spend more. Who is on the hook for a lot of that public debt in Italy and the rest of Southern Europe? German banks backstopped by German taxpayers.

If Italy seceded from the EU and defaulted on its debts, the Germans would be left holding the bag. If Italy then devalued the reintroduced lira - which it would certainly do - German goods would be very expensive in Italy while Italian goods would be a lot cheaper in world markets.

This problem was not created solely by Italy and they aren’t the only ones on the hook here. The Germans don’t want to see that.


21 posted on 06/07/2018 5:27:38 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: FLT-bird

“This is particularly hilarious coming from the Germans who have been mooching from America for generations to provide for their national defense.“

Well, when we have let them do it themselves, they tend to overdo it somewhat.


22 posted on 06/07/2018 5:30:12 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Yep.

In addition it’s the EU trying to lean on Italy to accept Muslim hordes it does not want.


23 posted on 06/07/2018 5:30:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: GonzoII
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24 posted on 06/07/2018 5:33:16 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: GonzoII

What about the Africans that Germany wants the Italians to take in and keep? They’re not moochers too?


25 posted on 06/07/2018 5:33:56 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: GonzoII

Germany is always the enemy.


26 posted on 06/07/2018 5:34:52 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: GonzoII

EU masters want their slaves to just shut up and take it.

They actually seem surprised when some countries figure out the EU is just a project to lock in German-French hegemony.

It’s the classic clueless-dictator’s gripe - “How dare they rebel! Why can’t they appreciate all the good we’re doing for them?”


27 posted on 06/07/2018 5:38:45 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: FLT-bird

Italy has many problems. I’m glad to see Italians reject the politicians who have failed.

The migrant issue pushed them over the edge.


28 posted on 06/07/2018 5:48:04 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: GonzoII; All
“In Rome, populists with their anti-euro course seriously endanger the European project,” Der Spiegel announces

German "European Project" #1:

German "European Project" #2:

Maybe it's time to give someone else a chance

29 posted on 06/07/2018 6:30:48 AM PDT by montag813
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To: GonzoII

The Euro and Brussels are indeed a cage for the PIIGS.


30 posted on 06/07/2018 6:54:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: montag813

Why isn’t anyone who witnesses this kind of abuse of women not knocking the crap out of those a**h**es? What if i was your sister, and everyone just stood around?


31 posted on 06/07/2018 6:58:45 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: GonzoII

Italians are “ungrateful moochers” for not working harder in their own country to support the ungrateful foreign moochers that Merkel and her globalists want as a replacement population? As usual with the political left, nothing makes sense.


32 posted on 06/07/2018 7:13:04 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: neverevergiveup

Because the Muslim hordes travel in groups, serfs in Yurp countries are not allowed to carry guns, because the PC media will immediately label you as “far right” and “racist” if you try to make the barbarians act like civilized human beings and because the PC establishment governments will prosecute you instead of the Muslim rapefugees.


33 posted on 06/07/2018 8:50:52 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: I want the USA back

They are pretty stupid. Consider the Italians are mooches but the millions of Mad Mo’s they let in their country are the salt of the earth? I think Germany has a suicide complex like most liberals except it is on a national scale this time around.


34 posted on 06/07/2018 11:48:49 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: mewzilla
Don't let them.

Allow the lira to reach its own level.

35 posted on 06/07/2018 3:37:02 PM PDT by Pietro
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To: GonzoII; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

thanks GonzoII. Meanwhile:

Just Met The New Prime Minister Of Italy. A Really Great Guy. The People Got It Right
POTUS via Twitter | 06/09/18 | Donald J. Trump
Posted on 06/09/2018 1:51:17 PM PDT by Enlightened1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3661880/posts


36 posted on 06/09/2018 8:01:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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