[MuttTheHoople]

Something fishy about this. Aside from Ireland, who's cut taxes and has massive incentives for businesses to re-locate, European countries have 10-12% unemployment. Here in America, we only have 5.5%.

I think all the "economy is falling" is just the Lamestream Media helping the Democrats get more seats in Congress.

[SolidWood]

I’ll gladly have all US liberals go over the pond and stay in Europe. We might take in the few remaining productive and freedom loving Euros in return.

[americanbychoice3]

what booming european economy? what a crock.
The biggest culture shock will be the “net income” and the high prices in that socialist wonderland.

[kabar]

Afroyim vs. Rusk decision

Beys Afroyim (1893-1984) was a Jewish artist born as Ephraim Bernstein in Ryki, Poland. In 1912 he immigrated to the United States. In 1926 he became naturalized as a U.S. citizen. In 1950 he moved to Israel. He voted in an Israeli election in 1951. In 1960, Afroyim tried to renew his U.S. passport, but the State Department refused on the ground that he had lost his citizenship by voting in a foreign election. Afroyim sued Dean Rusk in his official capacity as Secretary of State and head of the State Department, which is responsible both for issuing passports and for dealing with loss of citizenship.

[magooey]

5.5 percent unemployment is debatable. There are multiple Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment indices, and comparing across countries is comparing apples to oranges. While BLS picks one of the low indices as the officially released unemployment rate, U-6 may be more comparable internationally. Check http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm where the May 2008 unemployment rate for the USA is 9.4%.

[mdwakeup]

Well, unemployment on average is higher in EU countries than in the US, but it's nowhere near 10-12%; for all member states, the average is 6.7%. In fact, no EU country has a rate as high as 10%; the highest is Slovakia with 9.8%. Ireland, btw, has a higher unemployment rate than the US, at 5.6%. The lowest unemployment rate in the EU is the Netherlands at 2.6%. Other EU countries with unemployment rates lower than the US are the UK, Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Cyprus.