Roger, Roger…
Clarke & Dawe
Friday, December 3, 2010
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I saw this not too long ago, and thought it was great then....
ReplyDeleteIf you Google for europe's largest companies, you'll find several familiar names; similarly, some of the US' largest businesses are big in Europe.
That's a prelude to my next comment: I wan the Euro to fail. Not Europe; I want Europe to succeed, but, with liras and francs and deutchmarks...the idea that the EU must band together to compete w/the US is pretty thin; it creates a paper market, that means nothing good for the people of Europe. And obviously, US & European companies are not beholden to national boundaries (see above).
One of the problems the US has is the dual-layer governments of State & Federal; it's not that one is subset of the other, the way cities and counties are subsets of state governments. They are independant, and often conflicting layers of governmental "involvement." The advantage that european nations have had was they each had a more integrated political system; now their superimposing a new and conflicting political layer across all of europe. What Napoleon couldn't do, a bureaucrat did.
It's not because I want America on top, but because I love Europe that I hope the EU crumbles under it's own ludicrous weight....
$0.02 worth now entered.
TTFN,
~Dan