Leading to the question: what is more disconcerting—fat women fainting at Obama rallies, or FReepers fainting at the mention of their hero, Vladimir Putin?
This coming from the biggest supporter of Communist China and the Communist Chinese....Ni Hao, Chairman Mao
The EU has failed...and no matter how much taxpayer money or US wealth you throw at it....it still is a failure.
I’d sure be very leery of any nation joining the group that most demonstrates the total failure of Free Trade.
Even scarier, Obama is pushing a US-EU Free Trade pact which would absolutely destroy whats left of the US economy. The Eu is bad for the US, and bad for Ukraine
Feel free (no pun intended) at any time to point to a post where I support Communist China . . . you don't even have to make me the "biggest."
[For newcomers late to this discussion, SeminoleCounty believes I support China because I oppose his efforts to increase your taxes.]
The main reason expanding trade ties with the EU is a bad idea is because its a fading market going forward. None of those countries makes anything anymore. A lot of them have transferred to service economies notoriously vulnerable to recessions and collapses. British banking sector is a good example. Germany does better than the rest in that they still do big manufacturing.
The EU is a lot like us in that they live off their good name, and a population with expensive tastes. If a wind howls hard enough, it’ll blow away like pickup sticks. Where will such an economic hurricane come from? Likely the giant in the West with almost 20 trillion dollars in debt and a Marxist curtain-hanger in the White House.