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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:21 PM
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13. not true: Europe has a HUGE social safety net == to 10 stimulus programs
Americans would call them marxists or socialists, which some states are

they have in place HUGE safety nets

so they're not feeling the recession the way we are

yes, factories have falling orders, etc.....

but there are all sorts of govt programs helping them, that are already in place
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  -Europe doesn't want to do squat about the economy Kurt_and_Hunter  Mar-27-09 08:46 AM   #0 
  - Despite it's "left-wing" reputation the EU is really not that open to true reform.  Odin2005   Mar-27-09 10:12 AM   #1 
  - Yup. Gordon Brown has been inventive and serious but the Eurozone players seem antique  Kurt_and_Hunter   Mar-27-09 12:40 PM   #2 
  - but in bad times doesn't that safety net become more expensive to maintain?  asphalt.jungle   Mar-27-09 12:45 PM   #3 
  - Yes, I was thinking about that  Kurt_and_Hunter   Mar-27-09 05:30 PM   #4 
  - They're already doing what we should have been all along.  baldguy   Mar-27-09 10:16 PM   #5 
  - Maybe they don't want to follow us off a cliff...  Skwmom   Mar-27-09 10:20 PM   #6 
  - The biggest stimulus package(s) were Australian:  denem   Mar-28-09 06:12 AM   #7 
  - Kurt_and_Hunter  Diclotican   Mar-28-09 06:49 AM   #8 
  - France and Germany are opposed to stimulus spending,  denem   Mar-28-09 07:23 AM   #9 
  - Denem  Diclotican   Mar-28-09 08:15 PM   #11 
     - Thank you for a thoughtful response.  denem   Mar-28-09 08:32 PM   #15 
  - The U.S. kicked the Nazis out of Western Europe, and caused their withdrawal from your country.  amandabeech   Mar-29-09 10:46 PM   #17 
  - That was an incredibly ignorant thing to say.  Raineyb   Mar-29-09 11:06 PM   #20 
  - I like being nasty and ignorant.  amandabeech   Mar-29-09 11:59 PM   #24 
  - The US didn't do jack shit until the Japanese attacked  depakid   Mar-29-09 11:26 PM   #23 
  - Yeah, you should have studied reading more, too.  amandabeech   Mar-30-09 12:00 AM   #25 
     - THe US didn't even enter the war in Europe (actually North Africa) until May 1942.  depakid   Mar-30-09 12:27 AM   #26 
  - There was the little matter of Germany declaring war on the US...  Spider Jerusalem   Mar-30-09 01:33 AM   #29 
  - You go on about the safety net, but the simple fact is that the Eurozone economies  Zynx   Mar-29-09 11:12 PM   #21 
  - A couple things you should remember in addition to the point post #9 made  JVS   Mar-28-09 06:22 PM   #10 
  - JVS  Diclotican   Mar-28-09 08:19 PM   #12 
     - I know the reason. And while their currency was the strongest, that does not mean it was the best.  JVS   Mar-28-09 08:29 PM   #14 
        - I think that people in the Bundesbank have the murderous inflation  amandabeech   Mar-29-09 11:05 PM   #19 
  - not true: Europe has a HUGE social safety net == to 10 stimulus programs  amborin   Mar-28-09 08:21 PM   #13 
  - amborin  Diclotican   Mar-29-09 10:26 PM   #16 
  - We caused the mess didn't we? n/t  doc03   Mar-29-09 11:04 PM   #18 
  - Chart of Economic Policy Coolness  depakid   Mar-29-09 11:23 PM   #22 
  - Bam. There it is.  Political Heretic   Mar-30-09 12:56 AM   #28 
  - Um... what the hell are you talking about.  Political Heretic   Mar-30-09 12:55 AM   #27 
 

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