> On Mon, March 2, 2009 6:25 pm, Philip Pilkington wrote:
>
> > The EU
> > always was, and still is, a bunch of antagonistic powers with no set
> > agenda
>
> Yeah, but y'all have something to work with: 2,500 pages of the acquis
> communautaire, the European Parliament, powerful trade unions, powerful
> public mass media, the EU social charter, and the European Investment
> Bank.
>
> Here in the US, we have a nightmarish imperial state which excels at only
> two things -- spending 55% of tax revenues on genocidal neocolonial wars,
> and jailing millions of adults in the world's biggest gulag.
>
> -- DRR
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As I said, I love the setup over here... try China though.
I posted something about them a while ago and I often wonder what a "Great Leap Forward" with a massive pool of resources would look like. A "Five Year Plan" on speed, as far as I can see...
I'm perhaps over exaggerating... but who knows what the future holds...