The Euro crisis explained..

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The Euro crisis explained..

Post by Rum » Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:49 pm

..and brilliantly! The BBC do it again. Watch this and be impressed by it (as well as a tad worried!).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13991135

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Post by Seth » Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:37 pm

Why wade through all that bollocks, I can explain it in one word: Socialism
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Re: The Euro crisis explained..

Post by Ian » Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:52 pm

I blame soccer. :coffee:

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Post by Rum » Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:53 pm

Seth wrote:Why wade through all that bollocks, I can explain it in one word: Socialism

No doubt the cause of Americans getting poorer by the day too. :smug:

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Post by Atheist-Lite » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:06 pm

.....And I thought there wasn't enough 'cheap' easily available oil to keep the engine running. It was the numbers game all the time. I see? :smoke:
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Post by Seth » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:40 pm

Rum wrote:
Seth wrote:Why wade through all that bollocks, I can explain it in one word: Socialism

No doubt the cause of Americans getting poorer by the day too. :smug:
Actually, yes, it is. Socialist influences in our country are the direct proximate cause of the current economic crisis and the root of most of the economic distress suffered in this country (and every other).

It was the socialist pretensions of Carter, made manifest in the Community Reinvestment Act and subsequent socialist influences of people like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd that lead quite directly to the housing bubble and eventual melt-down.

Absent the CRA and Frank's abuse of power to coerce banks into making loans that, in a free market, they NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE because the risks were known and too great, neither the housing construction bubble, nor the inevitable melt-down when the fraudulent debtors who got in over their heads by lying about their financial status, would have happened.

Socialism is very much responsible for our economic ills, and has been since about 1912, with the advent of Progressivism under Woodrow Wilson, and the explosion in socialist government programs and spending under FDR that extended the Great Depression by a decade or more.

Tytler said it well when he warned us that "democracy" cannot endure as a permanent form of government because when the dependent class learn they can vote themselves other people's money out of the treasury, they will always vote for the candidate who promises them the greatest taxation of the cash-cows that will pay for the indolent dependent-class lifestyle, and the nation will soon fail on loose fiscal policy, as we are seeing now in Europe and the US both.
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Post by Rum » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:41 pm

Oh fuck off.

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Post by Ian » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:45 pm

Now now...


Rum, surely you realize that anything that infringes upon pure laissez-faire objectivism of the caveat emptor variety is just a socialist cancer inflicted upon the useful people of society by the giant dependent class? It's perfectly obvious.

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:47 pm

It was the communists what done for the Roman Empire too.
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Post by Seth » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:58 pm

Rum wrote:Oh fuck off.
Typical erudite socialist response to criticism of leftist ideology...
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Re: The Euro crisis explained..

Post by Atheist-Lite » Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:00 pm

Seth wrote:
Rum wrote:Oh fuck off.
Typical erudite socialist response to criticism of leftist ideology...
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Post by MrJonno » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:27 pm

The evils of decisions made a century ago, what a fab time is was before then
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Post by Santa_Claus » Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:31 pm

Gordon "retard" Brown is dribbling into his porridge.......again :(

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 33263.html

"Gordon Brown today launches an extraordinary attack on the leaders of America, France and Germany, accusing them of being "wrong" on the big economic decisions and failing to heed his warnings over the EU debt crisis".


As usual his answer is to throw money at the problem :fp: Money that doesn't exist (hence no mention of where this money is to come from :ask: ) - I would have thought that by now even he would have twigged that you can't borrow your way out of debt.......even if you call p#ssing money up against the wall as "investment" :banghead:


and of course (once again) no mention of his role in creating the problem in the first place by borrowing like a Crack Whore and spending the money on Lesbian Tree Huggers etc :banghead:
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Post by Robert_S » Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:21 pm

Fucking socialists!

They got those innocent freedom loving crackers down south addicted to a slave dependent economy which led to a civil war that took the lives of far too many decent upstanding free-market libertarians on both sides! :lay:
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:47 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:It was the communists what done for the Roman Empire too.
Actually, yes it was... you'll remember that a vast mass of the Roman citizenry was idle and leeched off the wealthy who paid them a stipend in exchange for their vote when those things took place.
They spending their times in taverns or at the circus or amphitheater without any incentive to do something creditable, like joining the legions, so eventually Rome relied on mercenaries who were either not as good, or just plain disloyal, and eventually got eaten up by the Germans.
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