[b said:
Quote[/b] ]and sent to bed without our supper!! (I can take the rest, but please! Not my DINNER!!!)
I'm not sure if I should be worried about this, but I thought the exact same thing about the "without supper" part even before I read that part in the parenthases.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]this just gives my eyes more reason to long for europe...
Because things are AWESOME in Europe! ... *cough* ... I'm German, I love my country very much, and I'm proud of man of my country's accomplishments (and not so much about some of the other ones) and some of the brilliant minds which have come out of the area, but things are screwy in Germany a muchso the same in pretty much all of Europe (at least all I can think of.)
Germany's economy SUCKS because the labour force SUCKS. In the VW commercials we always hear about the excellent German engineers and what not, but the problem isn't lack of skill- it's lack of drive. Many are too used to things being good and being able to be on perpetual vacation. That's no longer the case, but everything is sticky downwards: nobody wants to take a pay cut, nobody wants to pay more for goods, and nobody wants to work more hours like in the past. The governmental situation is a quite interesting one, though, with all of the parties going on.
The point is this: things aren't really too grand anywhere right now.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Get outta debt in a couple hundred years, and hope China doesn't demand the payment of their debt IMMEDIATELY or we are done. THANKS, Georgie. Stupid moron. First you bankrupt your own businesses, then you bankrupt your country. With no regard for anyone who isn't named Bush.
It's OK Bug: you think it would last if a budget surplus existed?
It hurts to think that the last time the deficit was 300Billion, it took the internet craze to help boost the economy out it it. And now the deficit is... um... Ouch.
Disclaimer: Yeah yeah, I know my deficit numers are in nominal dollars. And my analysys of the German economic state of affairs are just conclusions upon which myself and others have come upon, and only one of us is an economist (or rather, very-soon-to-be economist.)