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2008-02-06 Europe

The Grinding Poverty Hidden Throughout Europe

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 On a not necess unrelated note, TOPIX > BRITAIN RUNS OUT OF MACHINE GUNS, for the ME.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-06 01:08|| 2008-02-06 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 We should let Edwards know about this ASAP.

Posted by Clem Sheck9754 2008-02-06 01:32|| 2008-02-06 01:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Excellent, excellent read, the very obvious results of unchecked immigration coupled with socialism and run-away taxation. Two issues seldom discussed by any politician on this side, or in the States. Yesterday was the German "Fasching" Holiday. It's similar to Mardi Gras or a Carnival, but with a two week lead-in binge. I didn't see much hee to celebrate, but if dressing up like clowns and devils or middle-ages garb makes one feel better, have at it.

A litre of deisel is about 1.30 anywhere in Rhineland-Patinate, Bavaria or Saarland. Thats roughly 5.20 to the gallon or $ 7.69 U.S. Dollars per gallon, at today's exchange rate of $1.46 A modest dinner for two will run 35. without alcohol (add another 25 to that for a meal in Paris). An average pair of men's shoes, not of J&M or Italian quality... 165. Nineteen percent of this is the Value Added Tax or VAT.

Most Germans over the age of 55 know the deal and hate it. They dispise the Euro, the influx of Turks and Russians, and have no use for Brussel dictates. I'll take the States any day and could care less what entrapped and envious Europeans think about America. If they want to endure the communist experiment, so be it.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-06 03:59|| 2008-02-06 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 When you combine post-modernism with collectivism and cultural marxism, this is what you get. A society that is doomed to demographic extinction, and is no better economically than any other industrialized society (and demonstrably worse in many ways), which nonetheless must be constantly preening itself and braying about its excellence in order to maintain the self-illusion of its narrative.

Always remember that Democrat party has as its unstated but very obvious goal to convert the U.S. into a society exactly like this Europe. Let that govern your voting habits.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-02-06 06:37|| 2008-02-06 06:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Exactly No Mo Uro.

The Democratic party was once for the 'little guy'. Now it is all about keeping the 'little guy' as small as possible. They are openly saying that our economy must be slowed with higher gas prices, etc.. A feudal economy like the dark ages. Hillary Beast is the worst at wanting to see this. The Islamists, who Obama wants to talk and council with, want to control that feudalism.

Posted by www 2008-02-06 11:01|| 2008-02-06 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Any military personnel who've been stationed in Europe for the last forty years and had to 'live on the economy' knows the gauge of living standards up front and personal for all strata of the Euro society.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-06 16:05|| 2008-02-06 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 So there's, like, "Two Europes"?
I thought that was just us?

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-06 16:15|| 2008-02-06 16:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I remember driving through Watts on my first trip to the USA in the early 1970s, at the time a notorious ghetto.

I was astonished. Big houses, big cars, big well fed people, nothing like the European style poverty I had experienced previously - badly fed, badly clothed people in rundown over-crowded tennements and not a car in sight.

Posted by phil_b 2008-02-06 22:24|| 2008-02-06 22:24|| Front Page Top

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