[codebreaker]

Unreal.

[The Duke]

Well, if we're going to globalize I guess this is inevitable. I am puzzled, however, why a people would give away a perfectly servicable nation(?)

[ellery]

While I certainly bristle at the idea of the EU "demanding" anything of us, I don't at first blush have a problem with injecting a little competition into the US mail and municipal services. Hey, if it means better and cheaper service than the monopolies currently give us, I say hurrah. Of course, they would have to give us the same access. And the idea that SBA loans would go to foreign companies is just laughable.

[StormEye]

I surprised the EU doesn't demand to run part of federal government. I wonder when they will demand we pay our income taxes to them.

[cake_crumb]

"According to a draft copy of its demands obtained by the Washington Times, Europe also wants access to American markets for municipal water and waste services. It will also call for foriegn companies to be given access to Small Business Administration Loans"

Yeah. Right.

Personally, I'm getting a little sick and tired of EU "demands" upon the US.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Yep, the thought of European socialist countries running our water and postal service really turns me on.

The arrogance of these people is breathtaking. They are demanding access?

[a history buff]

You take this far too seriously. Everyone at those negotiations asks for the politically impossible, so, at the outset, all insist on truly bizarre things, to use as chips in the negotiations. I'm sure some of the things we've said we'd like to have sound equally foreign to foreign ears.

As for SBA loans; if they only help foreign-owned but US-domiciled companies, who pay taxes in the US, why not? Isn't the whole idea to get more taxes?

[dts32041]

Actually if the USPS was ran like the german bundespost, it might actually be an improvemnet.

The DBP was friendly and Great service, only took me 6 months to get a phone

[kaylar]

After 09/11, we were told that our water supply and the postal service could targeted for terrorist attacks. And they expect us to let them, with their much larger Muslim populations, run our postal service and the water services ???? The safety and security issues alone makes this untenable. This and the ICC are GWB's big tests, AFAIC : If he doesn't unsign the ICC and refuse these "demands", it's all over. This is beyond belief.

[keepinitreal]

The real question is who is behind the EU?

[NorseWood]

Oh good! Let's send all our waste water to the EU!!

[Mikey]

Welcome to the NEW WORLD ODER ORDER

[Texaggie79]

Yeah, that makes sense for a guy in Germany to deliver my mail.........

[anniegetyourgun]

Funniest thing I've heard all year! They push it, we threaten to withdraw, they back off. They don't back off, we withdraw. It's laughable because they have zip, zero, nada leverage.

[DoughtyOne]

F the EU. The US Mail is NOT, repeat NOT, the type of service we want to place if foreign hands. The US Mail is a closed shop for a reason. All sorts of private business is conducted through the mail. What we really need is foreign concerns coming in and having the ability to mess with it. Strikes, international relations interruptions and other wonderful things we can't even imagine right now, would be soon to follow. HELL NO!

You know, in the interest of globalization why don't we just turn our wives and children over the foreign intersts? Why don't we just give them our savings accounts to watch for us? That'd have about as much credibility with me.

[Diogenesis]

The UN and EU are unconcerned about antiSemitism in Europe.

The UN and EU are unconcerned about protecting African children from Arab slavers.

The UN and EU are unconcerned about assaults on Jews and Americans in Europe.

The UN and EU are unconcerned about Mad Cow disease which the EU created and is spreading worldwide.

What the EU and UN ARE CONCERNED ABOUT is protecting their source of terrorist spittle
which is becoming an endangered resource in their sick minds.

Proof: They enjoy partaking in Arafat passing his illness (retrovirus,?Mad Cow Disease) to EU officials and Annan
who regard it an honor to drink sputum directly from the mouth of terrorist Arafat.

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Annan: "We, at the Imperial Holy UN, encourage the use of dynamited-wheelchairs to kill Christians, Jews, or Americans.
We also thank Mr. Arafat for his donated crosses and stunning gold artifacts,
which he sent me. Now before you go away,
be sure that you send the reparations, taxes, and tribute which YOU owe me and my wife, Nane, to our New York address."

[moyden]

Maybe some good will come from the EU after all.

[upchuck]

Whadayasay we let the French run the US Postal Service?

Yeah, now THERE'S an idea!

The Hollanders could run our houses of prostitution, the Germans could run all of our engineering and manufacturing facilities. Hey, I'm kinda getting into this!
</sarcasm>

But wait, we can't leave out the British...

[Mamzelle]

Maybe the French want the American franchise for torching synagogues?

[Timesink]

Sounds like the EU is asking for the WTO to collapse. If they keep making demands like this, it will.

[Risky Schemer]

Garlic and olive oil flavored stamp glue. It could happen.