No kidding.
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Remember when it came out that the Bundestag was reviewing Ireland’s budget before the Dáil and Seanad even got to review it? What would the people of the US think if a foreign government got to scrutinize the US federal budget even before Congress got a look at it?
Hmmm. Do you REALLY think that the Europe governments DON'T scrutinize, to the penny, our US federal budget?
I think that the Europeans know, to the pennycentime EuroCent exactly what our federal budget is even before we do.
Personal opinion: I don't think Americans CARE what our budget is as long as WE have our domiciles, junk food, televisions-in-every-room and our six cars per every four-person families. "Wah, I GOTTA have a back-up car, ya know!!"
We don't even KNOW what's going on in Congress. I think we stopped caring a LONG time ago. "Just gimme my stuff."
Just an opinion.
I’ve never heard of the Bundestag scrutinizing the federal budget. Then again, the mainstream media is not so free about broadcasting such things if it happens—but on the other hand, the alternative media would have discovered it and let that cat out of the bag.
I also have not heard of any bailout loans coming from the EU and IMF to the US either. Nor are we a member state of the EU, obliged by treaty to keep deficit spending under 3 percent of GDP.
Your indictment of “consumerism” comes out of left field.