"Today, following all the Bush-era tax cuts, the US is a deeply divided country in social terms. The gap between rich and poor is almost as great as it was in the days of oil barons and steel magnates in the last century. Five percent of Americans buy almost 40 percent of all consumer goods sold in the country.
The country is at war with itself. It has a Congress where there is perpetual conflict between the right and the left -- and where they don't even want to talk to each other when the threat of a national bankruptcy looms."
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Der Spiegel seems awfully gloating about America's problems. Perhaps this is a way to distract from the economic problems on the Fatherland's doorstep and the fact that even the German economy has shown recent signs of faltering.
One could even imagine that Der Spiegel's love for America is less than sincere.
But it is important to pay attention to critics. Sometimes they see things that friends miss.
Europe, as a whole, is sinking. I for one dont like the spectacle.
The ejection of Gordon Brown and "New Labour" in the UK was the first big defeat to be suffered by the Globalist Movement; the downgrading of the US credit status was the second; the collapse of the Euro will be the next. Both of the latter two events, coupled with the general economic gloom occasioned by a decade of reckless spending, will lead to the toppling of the Obama junta, which will be another massive blow to the Globalists.
Mostly, this battle is being fought around the economy, which is failing in the West because of the combination of handouts due to mass immigration, high levels of economic aid to "allies" like Pakistan and Egypt, low taxes to anesthetise rich people, centralized statist bureaucracies, industrial-scale lying and thought control, climate-change scamming and finally, endless unwinnable wars; ie, the Globalist Program.
It is a matter of shame to us that the defeat of Globalism will by economic reality and not by a popular reaction.
Anon.
The Germans would not be so smug had the Russians remained a credible threat. They are another bunch of fools in their own way.
Ivan
Aren't we all? in our own way.
The ejection of Gordon Brown and "New Labour"
Cameron's Tories are better??
I used to think that our colored underclass was the main drain on public finances until I realized how much money the elderly consume in government services.
When welfare is cut off a lot of our old people will be forced to live with their children, if they ever had children.
~Mark Doane
I agree, Cameron himself started out as a committed globalist. But I suspect, to the extent that he thinks at all, he is starting to have second thoughts.
In the end, the Conservative Party has often done the Right Thing; as with Thatcher and the Trades Union communists. But the problem is, they are not very bright, and cannot readily deal with more than one thing at a time. And they so want to be loved and well thought of, which is of course the Welcome Mat for manipulators.
Of which there is no shortage.
Anon.
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