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Marine Le Pen: Brexit is a ‘Terrifying Failure’ For the European Union
Breitbart.com ^ | 2/3/2020 | Kurt Zindulka

Posted on 02/03/2020 8:18:59 AM PST by rktman

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To: Jeff Chandler

I always find it hilarious when people who have sunk so low morally and ethically that the concept of ending an invasion of Muslim Murderers and rapists doesn’t enter into their minds as a driving factor in politics are also irrecoverably stupid that they try to lecture other people and explain that comparative national economics is the important factor.


21 posted on 02/03/2020 9:10:46 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: FLT-bird


Leave the EU and they could reassert control over their borders and put their own people back to work.”

A very good summation of the situation. The PIGS are teenage girls with a credit card they are abusing that is paid by dad. Every time he threatens to cut up the card, they stomp their feet, and tell dad they will move out if he does. Dad is an idiot and continues to pay the bills.


22 posted on 02/03/2020 9:21:51 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: rktman
The idea that Europe needed a nanny mechanism to change the cultures of once proud nations was idiotic from the start. A monetary union and free trading block is one thing, a nanny state trying to homogenize once proud cultures is totalitarianism run rampant.

Of curse the EU fanatics are cast in the same mold as the "never Trumpers," here.

Surrender By Subterfuge

What Drives The Trump Haters

23 posted on 02/03/2020 9:22:41 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: rktman

You preempted part of my question:

What 3 counties will become #2, #3, #4 to leave the quagmire, the EU!


24 posted on 02/03/2020 9:24:59 AM PST by Grampa Dave (So called Cures for most viruses are imaginary. ItÂ’s always been best, ride it out, survive or die.)
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To: Ohioan

What’s interesting is some of the original ideas about a European union came from this guy.

https://www.oswaldmosley.com/


25 posted on 02/03/2020 9:26:57 AM PST by Reily
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To: Jeff Chandler

Thanks for posting this. Easy to remember: PIGS!

“England is a productive nation. Italy is one of the PIGS — Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. The PIGS are welfare states relying on the productive northern European states for their support.”


26 posted on 02/03/2020 9:30:09 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Most so called Cures for most viruses are imaginary. It has been ride it out, to survive or die.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

>>England is a productive nation. Italy is one of the PIGS — Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. The PIGS are welfare states relying on the productive northern European states for their support.

Keep in mind that those countries, the entirety of Latin America, the Philippines have their cultural roots in the Spanish Empire of the conquistadores. A deeper investigation will conclude that Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy were all dominated for centuries by Islam, their cultural ethics and value system are basically Muslim. This is why they are chronically corrupt and underperforming. The same could be said for remnants of the Western aristocracy and the industrial oligarchy. This is the mindset of SCARCITY.


27 posted on 02/03/2020 9:31:37 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: Ohioan
The entire eu thing always had me at "wtf"? Seems like a lot of individualism/nationalism was tossed in the wheely bin.😳. By-----elitists who would profit bigly.
28 posted on 02/03/2020 9:39:31 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

I trust the European Union eventually breaks up.

JoMa


29 posted on 02/03/2020 9:40:32 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: rktman

The profit that some make by betraying their neighbors & their heritage is one of the sad aspects of these efforts to homogenize mankind. But in my opinion, the enabling factor in the surrender of centuries of achievement, is the politically “correct” insanity that pollutes & corrupts “higher education” in the Western world.


30 posted on 02/03/2020 10:14:01 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: Jeff Chandler

PIIGS

you forgot the Emerald Isle.


31 posted on 02/03/2020 10:16:10 AM PST by Gasshog
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Northern 1/2 of Italy are great innovators and manufacturers. Yes they would do well if not for the Southern burden.

True. Northern Italy has a large number of small to medium size manufacturing businesses, many of which are multi-generational family concerns. There's a lot of "Off the Books" economic activity in Italy so their GDP numbers may not be exactly kosher.

32 posted on 02/03/2020 10:42:36 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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this is a terrifying failure for the EU

That's because the EU was a stupid idea to begin with.

33 posted on 02/03/2020 10:42:51 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: Bayard

Here’s maybe one angle on their perspective:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-16/poland-shines-light-on-why-it-s-not-more-grateful-for-eu-aid


34 posted on 02/03/2020 10:57:51 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

paywall, no thanks. I’ll take your word for it though.


35 posted on 02/03/2020 11:07:01 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Yollopoliuhqui
This is the mindset of SCARCITY.

Very astute.

36 posted on 02/03/2020 1:45:55 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Timocrat

Ha ha. Off the books work in Italy is almost mandatory to stay open as a business.


37 posted on 02/03/2020 1:57:16 PM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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Would Italy be able to support themselves?

If they had their own currency, they cold inflate the beJesus out of it, like in the old days.

38 posted on 02/03/2020 4:02:37 PM PST by Oatka
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Nah, there have been lots of failures of the EU project that they’ve had to acknowledge - some of these being
> the partial failure of the euro - it works well enough for the Benelux + Germany countries but adding Greece and Portugal when they fudged their numbers was correct. This was apparent in 2014.

> the failure of forcing Hungary to follow French standards

> the failure of trying to get Poland to not let parliament appoint judges.


39 posted on 02/05/2020 1:14:44 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Texas Fossil

What you quoted is John Campbell’s opinion of what she thought.

Maggie didn’t say that - it’s in his own opinion stringing together pieces.

She may have believed it or not - we have no indication. We have Campbell’s statement of what he thought she believed with no further proof.


40 posted on 02/05/2020 1:17:11 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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