Euro-merge Marks End of Era [ Euro Madness Experiment will Fail ]

Sacramento Bee ^ | 12/30/2001 | George F. Wlll

[ex-Texan]

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

WASHINGTON -- To see the banknotes of Europe's new common currency is to see Europe's future. They are not pretty.

[ex-Texan]

IMHO the Euro currency will fail. Already it is trading at .87 to the dollar. It will soon be fluctuating wildly between European nations and inflation will drive it down even lower. This currency is a vast experiment gone crazy and may drive Europe into a severe recession.

[hoot2]

has kellogg's started puttin' "euro's" into cereal boxes yet?

[Tacis]

How could tribes that have been waring with one anaother for 2,000 years give up the primary symbol of their culture, their unit of currency? The Greeks surrender the Drachma, the Dutch, the Guilder, and the Frensch, the Franc? How could this happen? This is the first step in the establishment of the Fifth Reich! In 5 to 10 years, several of these former nations will have become so weak that they will have to "incorporate" into another nation, unitl all but Germany are gone. The tribes of Europe will merge and the old cultures disappear into the facist culture of the Hun.

[PatrickHenry]

If the Euro fails, they'll just keep on using dollars. US money is the world's default currency anyway.

[Khepera]

This IS great news. You're a Peon Union fails and all their slaves are belong to us!!

[KirklandJunction]

My bartender friend in Ireland says "Pound, Punt, Euro, Dollar, ach, tell me what you've got in your wallet and I'll show ya' how much I'll pour!"

[ambrose]

Hitler's dream of a Europe united under Germany's domination is being realized.

[lmr]

I was conveying this exact sentiment to my wife weeks ago. "Fortress Europe" is exactly what Hitler wanted, and the Germans have reached that reality. Hitler was socialistic and so is the European Union, the only difference is that the EU did not take it by force. It is truly grievous that these nations would willingly give up their sovereignty. Their "Utopia" is a pipe dream and what they will end up with is actually far worse.

[hsszionist]

Next stop, the Union of European Socialists Republics. Ain't it grand.

[dennybabyboy-fitzy]

Yep, thats why the British public are trying to resist the Euro and belonging to Europe, because of German economic domination and conquest, and French pig-headedness. I'm British of Irish descent (contradiction in terms, I hear you say), and I most certainly do not consider myself a European, Hell, us Brits have been fighting the French since long before Columbus landed in America in 1462.

[dennybabyboy-fitzy]

The corruption in the European Commission beggars belief, all the backhanders and double dealing, and worse still cases of commissioners taking out of the pockets of charities. Then they put in place a champion for corruption, is this champion for or against corruption, who knows in Euroland, its a guessing game, my guess hes put there to cover tracks so the incompetent commissioners don't get caught next time. These same commissioners cut duty free shopping at airports throughout Europe including the UK, but kept there own duty free shopping priveliges, but the thing that gets my goat is the fact that they are an unelected commission. The elected members of European parliament (the MEPs), get ridden roughshod over , and are made to pander to the all-powerfull commissioners. As you can see I'm not a fan of either Europe or the Euro.

I'm a soldier in the British army and I completely condemn the EUs plans for a Euro army. Having been seconded to the US army, there is closer ties between the armies of Britain and the US, and I would prefer to fight alongside the soldiers of the US than those of France, Germany or Italy anytime.

[ambrose]

But it seems that Britain's ruling elites are united in forcing the Euro down the public's throat.

[Draco]

I always got the impression that, put to a vote, most citizens in the countries which will make up this "super state" would not join. Isn't the Euro really the DM in sheep's clothing?

[dennybabyboy-fitzy]

Your right, they are, but the fact remains that about 76% of the people in the UK oppose Europe and the Euro, and if the govt. is to be believed, the UK will not enter the Euro unless the vast majority vote in favour of, and that does not look likely in the by 2003, when the govt. will hold the referendum. The British public were forced into Europe when it was known only as the European common market, they were given a yes/no vote the question being "would you like closer ties with a European common market?", next minute we were being railroaded into a European superstate, to the detriment of the commonwealth nations i.e Australia, New zealand.

[dennybabyboy-fitzy]

Yea, but even the German people were quite against the Euro. They saw the DM as the symbol of there economic fightback since WW2

[dr_who]

Maybe. Just the same, let's hope it doesn't. I don't think the failure of the Euro would benefit any country, really. And don't be too depressed if it actually does work out for them, despite everything.

[Voltage]

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of the 'k'. This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replased with the 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double leters which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl will be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to oza kombinations of letas.

After ziz fifz yer ve vil have a rali sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu anderstand ech oza.

Ze drem of an united urop vil finali kum tru!

[ambrose]

Your right, they are, but the fact remains that about 76% of the people in the UK oppose Europe and the Euro, and if the govt. is to be believed, the UK will not enter the Euro unless the vast majority vote in favour of, and that does not look likely in the by 2003, when the govt. will hold the referendum. The British public were forced into Europe when it was known only as the European common market, they were given a yes/no vote the question being "would you like closer ties with a European common market?", next minute we were being railroaded into a European superstate, to the detriment of the commonwealth nations i.e Australia, New zealand.

Where's Winston Churchill when we need him?

[nopardons]

You could say, since 1066 ; but I think that it's actually earlier than that. LOL

[nopardons]

You could say, since 1066 ; but I think that it's actually earlier than that. LOL