No invading this time.

Well, succeeding is always better than failing, right?

They'll keep the Euro and everyone else gets the Gyro.

I'm pretty sure Austria is already its own continent.

I guess succeed and secede would both work here. Cary on.

This is excellent news for the U.S.

Once all the other countries go in the crapper we can be the best of the worst!

U.S.A.!

U.S.A.!

FTA: Merkel is calling for more unity, not less.

You know who else wanted more unity?

going to be a down day for new world order / one world currency soothsayers.

FTFA: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said the situation had become "unpleasant", and called for eurozone members to accelerate plans for closer political integration. "It is time for a breakthrough to a new Europe," she said. "Because the world is changing so much, we must be prepared to answer the challenges. That will mean more Europe, not less Europe."

So she thinks Europe needs to unify more and have a consistent government. Presumably the government will be less Greecelike and more fiscally careful. Kind of a Greater Germany, if you will.

Letting private banks print money and run nations is a bad idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X35R_3ZN-t8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3sKwwAaCU

KIA: FTA: Merkel is calling for more unity, not less.

You know who else wanted more unity?



"Come on, Angela. I'm just tryin' to unitify our people."

KIA: FTA: Merkel is calling for more unity, not less.

You know who else wanted more unity?

Queen Latifah?

In related news, the United States has chosen to absorb Peru, Honduras, and Venezuela into the newly-formed American Union, arguing that doing so makes as much farking sense as first world Germany making its currency just as valuable as that of Greece.

madgonad: I guess succeed and secede would both work here. Cary on.

madgonad: I guess succeed and secede would both work here. Cary on.

jvl: FTFA: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said the situation had become "unpleasant", and called for eurozone members to accelerate plans for closer political integration. "It is time for a breakthrough to a new Europe," she said. "Because the world is changing so much, we must be prepared to answer the challenges. That will mean more Europe, not less Europe."

So she thinks Europe needs to unify more and have a consistent government. Presumably the government will be less Greecelike and more fiscally careful. Kind of a Greater Germany, if you will.

No, Germany thinks that "remaining" EU members need to become more integrated, the implication being that the EU will contract members.

farking reading comprehension: how does it work?
/Not subby

Whoda thunk it that making it a point of pride amongst citizenry to avoid paying taxes, insist on working less for more pay, and continually increasing government compensation and handouts with a shrinking revenue base would have long term consequences?

grinding_journalist: Whoda thunk it that making it a point of pride amongst citizenry to avoid paying taxes, insist on working less for more pay, and continually increasing government compensation and handouts with a shrinking revenue base would have long term consequences?

But enough about the U.S.

seceed is the word you're looking for, subby.

tricycleracer: They'll keep the Euro and everyone else gets the Gyro.

or Gyros in Greece

Baloo Uriza: seceed is the word you're looking for, subby.

Or he could be attempting to be ironic, but this is the internet so that never happens.

greyw1980: jvl: FTFA: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said the situation had become "unpleasant", and called for eurozone members to accelerate plans for closer political integration. "It is time for a breakthrough to a new Europe," she said. "Because the world is changing so much, we must be prepared to answer the challenges. That will mean more Europe, not less Europe."

So she thinks Europe needs to unify more and have a consistent government. Presumably the government will be less Greecelike and more fiscally careful. Kind of a Greater Germany, if you will.

Reich, you are.

;)

Italy "too big to rescue"?

What ever happened to "too big to fail"?

Space aliens are our only hope.

Came here for a bunch of morons not getting subby's joke, not leaving until Helen Keller secedes from Australia.

Goddamn Confederates.

jvl: FTFA: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said the situation had become "unpleasant", and called for eurozone members to accelerate plans for closer political integration. "It is time for a breakthrough to a new Europe," she said. "Because the world is changing so much, we must be prepared to answer the challenges. That will mean more Europe, not less Europe."

So she thinks Europe needs to unify more and have a consistent government. Presumably the government will be less Greecelike and more fiscally careful. Kind of a Greater Germany, if you will.

Considering the shambles that is the Greek economy that would be no bad thing.
Also Germany has been a successful, industrious, liberal and democractic state for longer then Greece has.
comparing modern Germany with the 3rd Reich is kinda crass and borish.

tricycleracer: grinding_journalist: Whoda thunk it that making it a point of pride amongst citizenry to avoid paying taxes, insist on working less for more pay, and continually increasing government compensation and handouts with a shrinking revenue base would have long term consequences?

But enough about the U.S American upper class.

So when the Euro fails, dollars are good and international travel gets cheap again?

G2V: Baloo Uriza: seceed is the word you're looking for, subby.

Or he could be attempting to be ironic, but this is the internet so that never happens.

Considering that you actually used 'ironic' correctly, yeah.

FerneJohn: tricycleracer: grinding_journalist: Whoda thunk it that making it a point of pride amongst citizenry to avoid paying taxes, insist on working less for more pay, and continually increasing government compensation and handouts with a shrinking revenue base would have long term consequences?

But enough about the U.S American upper class.

That's class warfare, zomg!

Guelph35: So when the Euro fails, dollars are good and international travel gets cheap again?

Nah, it will be like Mad Max. Except with yugos and lederhosen.

G2V: Guelph35: So when the Euro fails, dollars are good and international travel gets cheap again?

Nah, it will be like Mad Max. Except with yugos and lederhosen.

wow, and I thought it was homoerotic before...

Why didn't we just keep all that stuff we've been fighting for in the Middle East? That would probably help the economy.

It should be noted that financial concerns were the primary impetus for the fledgling United States to move from their 'at arms length' unification under The Articles of Confederation...To a much stronger, centralized government under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Yes, the Constitution was our 2nd attempt at self-government. The first read like a States' Rights wet-dream(separate money for each state, etc etc etc) and was a dismal failure.

Unity, in this case is the best path for the EU, but I doubt these nations have the fortitude to set aside centuries of history in order to unite into something greater.

So much for €


Do we get to keep Oktoberfest?

CAADbury: [parasolcreations.net image 640x347]

I LOLd

KrispyKritter: going to be a down day for new world order / one world currency soothsayers.

Bu...bu....but what about the Antichrist, and all that other apocalypty stuff?

Foreclose on the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain)

I hope Finland and Holland have enough sense to stay out of this new Euro Zone

trifoldhat: KrispyKritter: going to be a down day for new world order / one world currency soothsayers.

Bu...bu....but what about the Antichrist, and all that other apocalypty stuff?

don't worry, Obama still has until December 2012 to get all that done.

Sticky Hands: G2V: Guelph35: So when the Euro fails, dollars are good and international travel gets cheap again?

Nah, it will be like Mad Max. Except with yugos and lederhosen.

wow, and I thought it was homoerotic before...

I would prefer Mad Men with
liederhosen and Yugos.

Infernalist: It should be noted that financial concerns were the primary impetus for the fledgling United States to move from their 'at arms length' unification under The Articles of Confederation...To a much stronger, centralized government under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Yes, the Constitution was our 2nd attempt at self-government. The first read like a States' Rights wet-dream(separate money for each state, etc etc etc) and was a dismal failure.

Anybody who ever sat through a US History 101 class in junior college knows that.

blackmtnmantheonly: So much for €

That's okay. I still have some deutchmarks.

greyw1980: jvl: Presumably the government will be less Greecelike and more fiscally careful. Kind of a Greater Germany, if you will.

Reich, you are.

4th Reich?

GIS for "hot lederhosen"...
some good some bad some WTF!!!


//some NSFW

Infernalist: The first read like a States' Rights wet-dream(separate money for each state, etc etc etc) and was a dismal failure.

From about 1836 to the end of the Civil War, the US went back to the state standard in which banks via State charter were printing their own money. You can still find plenty of bills that say something like "First National Bank of Maryland 5 dollar note" that doesn't look anything like the "First National Bank of Delaware 5 dollar note". Counterfeit bills were rampant, and Lincoln nipped that in the bud toards the end of the war, even though the practice long predated it.

Kar98: Infernalist: It should be noted that financial concerns were the primary impetus for the fledgling United States to move from their 'at arms length' unification under The Articles of Confederation...To a much stronger, centralized government under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Yes, the Constitution was our 2nd attempt at self-government. The first read like a States' Rights wet-dream(separate money for each state, etc etc etc) and was a dismal failure.

Anybody who ever sat through a US History 101 class in junior college knows that.

Presumably this is incorrect, since there are some very college-educated people arguing for the very dismal failure that was the Articles of Confederation.