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redneck pub? ..would that not also be "silly/ idiotic / ignorant generalization"? Rednecks are not Southerners with odd/ignorant culture. Rednecks were people from Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, who wore a red scarf to protect/identify themselves from anti-union coal company mercenaries trying to evict or kill them. Rednecks were a symbol of defiance from Corporate greed.
Anyway, for years on this board Europeans (some Canadians) started endless threads negatively commenting on our economics, politics, culture, and how America will fail and all hail the EU. So no, I'm not going to leave this "rhetorics" for the pub.
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It's all about the mutual ignorance
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This is how Americans truly feel about Europeans or the EU. We helped you build your economy/countries after 2 world wars and protected you for 6 decades so you don't speak Russian. During this time you built a great economic structure with great social services and a high standard of living. Currently you barely acknowledge the umbrella of security the American people paid/provided you for decades. Then you insult us with your supremacist attitude saying we are fat stupid and can't even provide health care for our citizens etc.
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I'm not questioning the importance of the Marshall's plan for example, but the involvement of US in the world war II was much more important from the economical point than from the military point.
While US troops failed miserably in Italy and successfully took over the Pacific ocean, massively devastating an opponent that was not able to support their own army on such a vast and inconvenient pacific ocean territory, they were able to put together a great deal, there's no country that would earn on the WW II more than US - but please, before you will throw a hay fork at me, what's wrong with that?
US was the smartest country during the WW II, that's what I love about the country - the ultimate pragmatism.
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Now you come to us with your hat in your hand saying we are having a global meltdown and we need your help/money to feed the new Global economic market or we will all suffer. No we won't. There has always been a Global economic market and before the EU/Euro the world currency was the dollar. In short, we are global competitors and if the EU fails guess what? The dollar will be the global currency again.
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You realize that you're only arguing with yourself, do you?
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To prove this we scammed you with toxic loans insured by a private company (AIG) that is now broke and regulated by the Feds. We took your money and built millions of new homes and your holding worthless paper. Not knowing the paper was worthless you loaned against yourselves and built Eastern Europe up. They defaulted we defaulted and the EU is fucked. Sadly, we American are too fat and stupid to understand this, but hell we do have lot's of new houses, cheap gas and food, cars, and huge TV's.  |
Interesting take