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Originally Posted by Allformyspace
I see the EEC very united and as one i see them very influent.
Sarkozy and Brown arent the best of friends, but they never get to back stab each other, like unfortunatlly happens way to often in the US congress between Democrats and Republicans.
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Well, let's talk about the other countries - extreme disorder and chaos, clutching the straws to play on the national populist note, there are far too many examples to mention.
About the backstabbing - believe me I guess the amount of back stabbing and lobbying is more or less the same.
For example the EU country where I reside at the moment - I would say 95 pct. of government investitions over say 100k USD are manipulated.
They don't even try to hide it much, it's a buzz in media for a month, then it's moved to the court, where the case will be for another 5 or 8 years (most un effective legal system I know), before they close it down for "not enough evidence", and here we go again.
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Originally Posted by Allformyspace
I see that the Euro didn't fail like US economists said it would have, it has taken over many monetary markets in the middle east and asia and most probably will take over the dollar as the world wide currency in a few decades.
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There's always a lot of bluffing and lot of speculation in what economists say, and lot of that is intentional.
If they would publish real analyses publically, the stock market would crash.
It's mainly just a game, like a billion dollar poker, and you have to compare all kinds of sources to get somewhat an idea I would say.
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Originally Posted by Allformyspace
I respect what you have to say, but i don't see all that hate for Americans or their policy in the EEC. Obama is very popular and respected among the people and their political representatives. My father remembers still when the Americans liberated Italy from the Nazi's in 45 and has great respect for the American people, like millions of others.
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Barack Obama is most likely the most popular American president in Europe since John F. Kennedy, so if nothing, at least he's extremely representative.
His speech in Prague was great, I was fascinated.
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Originally Posted by Allformyspace
I dont say the Europeans hate the americans, but they did hate George W. Bush, but hes gone :P
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Unfortunately, he and his administration did probably more harm to US abroad then anyone else in history.
FIRST day he got elected I remember 8 page articles about his "lower level" education and they practically made a complete idiot out of him, unfortunately, it was not even that hard.
That's of course not good, and every idiot with a hay in his mouth then feels superior and it throws a bad shade on US in general.