Zis ist gut fuhr ze Deustche, ja?

Sounds like a certain superfatty -er- power this side of the Atlantic - hmmm, America?.

Hmm, Germany is doing what the "fiscal conservatives" on this site wanted to do, and they are threatening to bring down all of Europe. Let's just ponder that and see if there's a connection there. Hmm...

Ve have vays of making your economy sehr gefestigt!

Does this mean the Euro is coming in line with the Dollar or are we just as farked?

/Haven't checked recently

Somebody call Mr. Schlieffen. He had a Plan for this sort of contingency....

If DHL is any indication of how well Germany handles business and the economy...

I think we can do without their advice, thank you very much.

Econotards...

Is Germany still paying off restitution from the first world war?


/weak anology

Ich habe eine Idee. Möglicherweise können wir erhalten, I don' t wissen, ein Südenbock, um die Schuld für alle unsere ökonomischen Mühen zu nehmen? Hmmmm, wer könnte wir tadeln? Möglicherweise irgendeine Ethik oder Religionsgruppe?

they'll all be getting it greek style, soon.

JEWS!

mistrmind: Ich habe eine Idee. Möglicherweise können wir erhalten, I don' t wissen, ein Südenbock, um die Schuld für alle unsere ökonomischen Mühen zu nehmen? Hmmmm, wer könnte wir tadeln? Möglicherweise irgendeine Ethik oder Religionsgruppe?

you don't wissen? really? did you just say that?

UncleCal: If DHL is any indication of how well Germany handles business and the economy...

I think we can do without their advice, thank you very much.

Econotards...

For me DHL pulling out of the US was funny and sour grapes. I drove for one of the other big carriers. One day I was delivering a package to a lawyers office and I knocked on the door. He came out all irate saying we should be, "RINGING THE DOORBELL and not KNOCKING! This is why DHL is killing you guys!" Asshole.

soakitincider: they'll all be getting it greek style, soon.

the buttsecks thread was yesterday.

although i suppose we could start another one.

With any luck, the axis powers will get the old band back together. That should be fun.

Europe may crumble because Germany's economy and bad planning is forcing it to take bold action

Not even close.

We aren't taking much of ANY action. It's one of the main reasons Merkel is being criticized in the German press. She's stalling for time because she doesn't have much of a clue what to do with this nonsense. And the idea that our planning was worse than the country who originated bundling fail mortages as securities and shuffling them off to every international buyer imaginable is laughable.


It is, in short, a classic example of the kind of situation in which policy coordination is essential - but you won't get coordination if policymakers in the biggest European economy refuse to go along

Gee, maybe it has to do with the idiotic proposals by other countries, like France in particular, to nationalize farking EVERYTHING.

The problem any bailout over here will pose to us is that we end up footing most of the bill to bail out other countries who farked up of their own accord. You'd be pretty reluctant and pissed off if suddenly U.S. taxpayers were forced to bail out Mexico or Guatemala.

I cannot believe this argument swung back to the U.S. already.

mistrmind: Ich habe eine Idee. Möglicherweise können wir erhalten, I don' t wissen, ein Südenbock, um die Schuld für alle unsere ökonomischen Mühen zu nehmen? Hmmmm, wer könnte wir tadeln? Möglicherweise irgendeine Ethik oder Religionsgruppe?

Ich sehe was du gemacht hast

soakitincider: they'll all be getting it greek style, soon.

In the ass?

German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück - an erstwhile social democrat, no less - is lambasting the "vulgar Keynesianism" of Gordon Brown and other stimulus advocates and thereby doing a considerable amount to block stimulus all across the EU.

Wow, someone has actually learned from history.

UncleCal: If DHL is any indication of how well Germany handles business and the economy...

I think we can do without their advice, thank you very much.

Econotards...

yeah coz BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, VW, Zeiss, Krupp, H&K, Aldi are all so unsuccessful...

that's like saying americans dont understand capitalism coz of enron

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude:
It is, in short, a classic example of the kind of situation in which policy coordination is essential - but you won't get coordination if policymakers in the biggest European economy refuse to go along

Gee, maybe it has to do with the idiotic proposals by other countries, like France in particular, to nationalize farking EVERYTHING.

Uh-oh. We've got a German getting grumpy about France, again...

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: The problem any bailout over here will pose to us is that we end up footing most of the bill to bail out other countries who farked up of their own accord. You'd be pretty reluctant and pissed off if suddenly U.S. taxpayers were forced to bail out Mexico or Guatemala.

Well put, sir, well put.

/applause

Hey Subby,


/hotlinked

oldfarthenry: Sounds like a certain superfatty -er- power this side of the Atlantic - hmmm, America?. I have penis envy

What you really meant to say.

/FYI...US is bad, but Canada has a bunch of fatties too, not that you should let that get in the way of your bigoted rants.

Why don't they ask for a bail-out?

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Gee, maybe it has to do with the idiotic proposals by other countries, like France in particular, to nationalize farking EVERYTHING.

Enjoying the Euro, are we?

mistrmind: Ich habe eine Idee. Möglicherweise können wir erhalten, I don' t wissen, ein Südenbock, um die Schuld für alle unsere ökonomischen Mühen zu nehmen? Hmmmm, wer könnte wir tadeln? Möglicherweise irgendeine Ethik oder Religionsgruppe?

Ich glaube dass Sie ein "Godwin" gemacht haben. Möglicherweise?

Arnold T Pants: German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück - an erstwhile social democrat, no less - is lambasting the "vulgar Keynesianism" of Gordon Brown and other stimulus advocates and thereby doing a considerable amount to block stimulus all across the EU.

Wow, someone has actually learned from history.

Yeah. That's whats going on.

DamnYankees: Enjoying the Euro, are we?

Me personally, very much so. I had to transfer a lot of US accounts to German accounts recently when it was around .80 Euro for every dollar (highest it's been in a long time), so I actually got a pretty damn good deal.

ObscureNameHere: Uh-oh. We've got a German getting grumpy about France, again...

The absolute LAST thing any typical German wants is to be responsible for France.

/but funny joke nonetheless

You know who else tried to fix Germany's economy?

/sorry...couldn't resist

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: The problem any bailout over here will pose to us is that we end up footing most of the bill to bail out other countries who farked up of their own accord. You'd be pretty reluctant and pissed off if suddenly U.S. taxpayers were forced to bail out Mexico or Guatemala.

I don't know about Germany's banking regulation but countries that had taken steps to protect their banks from unregulated financial capital flows are relatively unaffected by this crisis. Turkey, for example. I'm fairly sure that the European banks reaping record profits off of this credit fault swap system weren't complaining throughout the nineties and 2000's.

Another rather amusing thing that none of these blurbs seem to mention is how Merkel just keeps stalling for time.

The media coverage is growing more and more impatient with her "wait and see" attitude. Last week she said they might not do anything until March/April.

She's shooting herself in the foot in terms of re-election.

coco ebert: mistrmind: Ich habe eine Idee. Möglicherweise können wir erhalten, I don' t wissen, ein Südenbock, um die Schuld für alle unsere ökonomischen Mühen zu nehmen? Hmmmm, wer könnte wir tadeln? Möglicherweise irgendeine Ethik oder Religionsgruppe?

Ich glaube dass Sie ein "Godwin" gemacht haben. Möglicherweise?

kann man ein godwin ueberhaupt "machen"?

oder kann man "godwinnen"?

Ich godwinne
Du godwinnst
er sie es godwinnt... das thread wurde gegodwinnt

eine wichtigere Frage waer...kann man sich godwinnen?

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude:

Ich sehe was du gemacht hast

applause

Father_Jack: kann man sich godwinnen

Nur wenn mann Hitler ist.

Does anyone else think typing in German on an American website is slightly rude?

C'mon guys. I can't read German. Do you want me to type in Russian?

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Father_Jack: kann man sich godwinnen

Nur wenn mann Hitler ist.

woher kommste Schaden?

squirrelinator: Does anyone else think typing in German on an American website is slightly rude?

no.

C'mon guys. I can't read German. Do you want me to type in Russian?

if you can find other russian speakers in the thread to have a convo with, have at you.

zis is a german-themed thread, ja? ve type in german if ve feel like it. nau.

Father_Jack: coco ebert: mistrmind: Ich habe eine Idee. Möglicherweise können wir erhalten, I don' t wissen, ein Südenbock, um die Schuld für alle unsere ökonomischen Mühen zu nehmen? Hmmmm, wer könnte wir tadeln? Möglicherweise irgendeine Ethik oder Religionsgruppe?

Ich glaube dass Sie ein "Godwin" gemacht haben. Möglicherweise?

kann man ein godwin ueberhaupt "machen"?

oder kann man "godwinnen"?

Ich godwinne
Du godwinnst
er sie es godwinnt... das thread wurde gegodwinnt

eine wichtigere Frage waer...kann man sich godwinnen?

Ummm... well all I have to say to this is... uhm...
Hast Du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst Du vielleicht grad' an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass sowas von sowas kommt

Break it down

squirrelinator: Does anyone else think typing in German on an American website is slightly rude?

C'mon guys. I can't read German. Do you want me to type in Russian?

You vill report to zee work camp IMMEDIATELY

Meh, just give them some breathing room, I'm sure it'll all work out... I think the Czech Republic is still available if they are interested...

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

Father_Jack: UncleCal: If DHL is any indication of how well Germany handles business and the economy...

I think we can do without their advice, thank you very much.

Econotards...

yeah coz BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, VW, Zeiss, Krupp, H&K, Aldi are all so unsuccessful...

that's like saying americans dont understand capitalism coz of enron

Perhaps BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, VW, Zeiss, Krupp, H&K, Aldi didn't buy out a company in another country and give golden parachutes to the executives who KNEW how to run the business (when they bought Airborne Express) and they didn't know how to run a business in America. And they didn't know how to do squat outside of their international operation.

They took a perfectly viable company and drove it into the ground, and it will cost over 10,000 jobs in DHL and ABX Air. Plus all the other businesses that will suffer as a result. A good section of Ohio will suffer from their stupidity.

DHL kept borrowing money and getting bailout money from their parent company Deuche Post and STILL couldn't make a profit. Last year they lost a billion, this year they lost a billion and a half.

Do your research before you attack someone who knows what is happening, dumb ass.

Enron was run by incompetent farkers. And Ken Lay should have been stoned.

Don't mention the war. I did once, but I think I got away with it.

I propose a bailout.

Whoa, I'm having flashbacks to '32.