This clever Garrison graphic shamelessly purloined from another Freeper who posted it first.
Posted on 06/27/2016 7:47:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The foreign ministers of Germany and France on Monday called for ambitious steps to strengthen the European Union after Britain’s shock vote to leave the bloc.
“We will… take further steps toward a political union in Europe, and we invite the other European states to join us in this endeavor,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault wrote in a joint position paper.
The top diplomats of the two core EU founding members and biggest economies said that “Germany and France have a responsibility to strengthen solidarity and cohesion within the European Union”.
But they also signaled a willingness to accept a multi-speed union, writing that “we must… acknowledge that there are different degrees of ambition towards further integration among the member states”. …
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Indeed, but things have shown that they are good at placating their “masses” when they have to. Not those two specifically, but the elite in general.
Indeed, but things have shown that they are good at placating their “masses” when they have to. Not those two specifically, but the elite in general.
“France would shrivel up because they’re lazy good for nothings (I will not step foot on an Airbus for example).”
The French are not lazy.
They just don’t like to have their retirement benefits or pay reduced, just like hard-working UAW assembly line workers (and Brian Griffin).
I flew on Airbuses to Europe and back. They are good airplanes.
I would however recommend the purchase of Boeing planes, since they are also good and my lovely lady friend owns Boeing stock.
“the lazy good for nothings in countries like Greexico”
Many Greeks work hard. However, their economic structure isn’t as strong as Germany’s or even Italy’s.
The basic problem with Greece is that the Greek government borrowed too much money, sort of like a country you know well.
Greece was able to borrow too much money because international bankers and EU bureaucrats weren’t keeping track of how much Greece owed its creditors.
A quick and dirty fix was put in under EU auspices, which only made the Greek debt problem worse.
The Greek debt problem was further enhanced by repeated bailouts, which can’t be repaid in Euros (but might be by Greek supplied services and housing to EU retirees).
A political union like the one they had from June 1940 to August 1944.
This clever Garrison graphic shamelessly purloined from another Freeper who posted it first.
No kidding. I remember that creep Herman Achille Count Van Rompuy (brother!) sitting there so smugly when Nigel Farage was speaking against the whole charade years ago. To have a super-national force run by an unelected elite—who even looks like a blasé cartoon villain—is the stuff of nightmares.
The Bundeswehr is now open to recruiting EU citizens. There was a story in Die Welt recently about this; they have been planning to do this since 2011.
Panic mode as they realize that some other countries will be heartened by Britain’s move.
Next move. Europe will be renamed “Germania” and the new capital will be Berlin, where it belongs. Starting the Forth Reich that will rule for 1,000 years! Hail Victory! Tomorrow belongs to Germany! Der Tag has come at last.
A friend of mine taught business courses in France and Germany for Microsoft. He was not amused by the students work ethic in France. These were business professionals.
Came when they wanted. Took long lunches. Left when they felt like it.
The Germans were the polar opposite.
Because they need the export markets. There aren’t enough Germans to buy all the stuff their manufacturers produce. The German economy is very heavily dependent on exports.
(And the little secret about the subsidies to the Southern Europeans is that those subsidies give the people there money to buy German products - all paid for by the German taxpayer, of course.)
I’m reminded of the military axiom to “never reinforce defeat”.
Agree. And it needs to be repeated. The same group of globalists that were, and still are, in Britain are in league with those ruling over very reluctant populaces in France and Germany. And the EU started as France’s idea to benefit from Germans’ hard work when France was unable to outright annex the Saarland after WWII.
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