Europe on the brink of collapse

Scotland Sunday ^ | 10/27/02

[wideawake]

We are capitalizing on it. It's becoming too expensive for Europeans to manufacture things in their countries. They're shifting production more and more to the US (jobs for Americans) and are buying more and more comparatively inexpensive US goods.

However, China is stealing our lunch in this department. We're only helped by the fact that the disease of socialism in our country is not in as advanced a stage as in Europe.

The only thing European companies have an advantage in, compared to the US, is tort law.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I'll wager that we are going to the same place that Europe is going, albeit via a slightly different route.

Different hand-cart - Same warm destination.

[wideawake]

The UK could come out of this smelling like a rose - the perfect financial intermediary between the EU and the US.

[quebecois]

"I was just wondering when they will start talking about us nice again, cause you know they'll come looking for help...they always do"

Boy, isn't that the truth.

Q: What do the europeans call americans who offer them advice about free-market economics?

A: cowboy redneck imperialists.

Q: What do the europeans call americans who are reluctant to bail them out of their latest economic/cultural catastrophe?

A: Evil isolationists

They may hate us, but in their hearts they know that we're right....and that they lack the cahones to emulate us.

[KriegerGeist]

"Month-long vacations, fully paid government health care, unemployment in double digits (no limit on unemployment pay). etc., etc."
"These idiots think they can ignore arithmetic."

And guess what? Oregon thinks the can do the same thing and make it work where everwhere else it has been tried that system has failed.
I heard that businesses and companies are going to flee the state and all the sick and disabled and every other kind of sickness and disease will flock there.
They'll all hold hands and have fun in Oregon until Noah enters the ark...then..

[junta]

mega bump

[quebecois]

"I thought that we'd have to try harder to convince the British public to leave the EU"

Keep those RAF spitfires warmed up. If the UK leaves that sinking ship, there is no telling what the continentals will do (does the UK have an emergency plan to flood the chunnel?)

[gitmo]

Cause & Effect.

[MadIvan]

You're right that we are a significant cash cow for the EU. God give us the courage of Switzerland and Norway, who have stayed out.

Regards, Ivan

[KneelBeforeZod]

can't wait to see the results of the OR elections. In a sick, selfish way, I hope they do pass the freebies, then we can use them as a cautionary tale. Apparently Canda, that thing that borders us all along our northern side, hasn't opened enough eyes.

[A. Pole]

They are doomed ... to a long depression or worse.

They and Americans will be fine on one condition: that they have 2 children plus per family so they will survive. Otherwise Muslims will take their place.

All other things are details.

[Alas Babylon!]

I hope so! I'm an Anglophile!

[Tax-chick]

Bingo! You and I and Pat Buchanan and the people at "quiverfull.com" and Vision Forum know it ... the future belongs to those who are there to see it, and it AIN'T gonna be French, Italians, Spanish, Germans, etc., etc., etc. Only Turks and Albanians, Moroccans and Algerians ... And it won't be anything resembling today's Americans unless they get the message before they reach the mathematical point of no return.

The future is Hispanic, Asian, African, Indian, Moslem, under today's trends. Maybe they'll be Republican?

[Fintan]

Another socialist success story.

[Yardstick]

That's a great stat -- one that could come in handy when bickering with socialist euroboobs and other riff raff. Do you have a source?

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

I'll tell ya... Those people -- the Brits and Europeans in general -- make The Godfather Saga or The Sopranos look like a Saturday morning kiddie cartoon. Those people have some seriously nutty blood in their veins...

"Those people" are us. We live under the uniquely American delusion that we have no connection to the civilization that gave us birth: the West. In reality, we are no different; we just happen to be lucky in a number of respects in regards to our recent history. This isn't going to last. Europe simply has more history than we have; history doesn't move in a straight line. When we have had as many centuries of history as Europe has had, we won't be in any position to point fingers at them. In fact, our recent finger pointings are looking more and more hypocritical.

[Cautor]

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed reading this article. I loathe Europeans--sans the Brits whom I barely tolerate. Seeing their economy tank is music to my eyes. I especially relish the demise of the Kraut and Frency economies--two of our greatest enemies.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

The future is Hispanic, Asian, African, Indian, Moslem, under today's trends. Maybe they'll be Republican?

No, but that's no problem to the usual suspects: they will simply redefine what "Republican" means. These are the same folks venting gas about Third World immigrants having "family values". Yes, in the sense that they outbreed us (and get support for same from our tax dollars), they have "family values". Islamic fundamentalists are very conservative and have "family values"; Latin American narco-terrorists and their Indian peasant supporters have "family values" (spiced with a little "liberation theology"); I doubt either of them are going to either be "Republican" or to otherwise do anything positive towards the survival of the West.

[wideawake]

These are the official EU stats on GDP.

Got my population numbers and US GDP from the CIA World Factbook.

[Yardstick]

Superb. Thanks.