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[QUOTE BY= Marcarc]If Ireland has full employment.[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Ireland is an anomaly, it's 4.3 percent unemployment is due to the regentrification of the North. Northern Ireland was economically depressed for decades thanks to the IRA bombings.<br /> <br /> You want work? Do war. War always generates prosperity afterwards because people have to open their wallets to build things.<br /> <br /> Nothing new there.<br /> <br /> France has 11+ percent unemployment.<br /> <br /> Germany is 10.5<br /> <br /> Italy is 11.5<br /> <br /> Scotland 11.9<br /> <br /> Norway is 4.3<br /> <br /> France/Germany/Italy are part of the G8, so their numbers matter the most.<br /> <br /> You figure out the rest buddy. Europe is in the crapper.<br /> <br />

[Marcarc]

Well, perhaps people would be far more amenable to your opinions if you actually knew that Northern Ireland ISN"T PART OF THE REPUBLIC OF CANADA.<br /> <br /> So by your own admittance Norway is FAR from being in the crapper, its better than Canada and the states. So why not look at policies of that country? You can try to blend them in with Europe to back up a pointless view, that's your business, for actually dealing with policy though, its helpful to look at the specifics of each country. <br /> <br /> Switzerland: 4.1<br /> Sweden:5.5<br /> Denmark: 6<br /> Holland: 6<br /> <br /> So those are very in the ballpark for comparisons with Canada. Many of the countries experience high unemployment because of the vast numbers of immigrants coming from the near middle east. Canada has always been VERY fussy on immigration, while the states take as many illegals as will fill their orange groves.<br /> <br /> However, those arguments are pointless unless attached to a specific policy platform. There are as many 'good ideas' available in Europe as there are from the US, there is certainly no reason to discard an employment area because of its originating location.

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France, Germany and Italy are part of the G8. <br /> <br /> Those three countries are basically the 'engine' of the EU.<br /> <br /> The rest are *passengers*<br /> <br /> even a child could see that.<br /> <br /> Britain isn't part of the European Union, so I don't count them in. They were wise to keep the Pound and not go Euro.<br /> <br /> It's all about the Euro, and how low will that dollar eventually go when all HELL breaks loose.<br /> <br /> [QUOTE BY= Marcarc] Well, perhaps people would be far more amenable to your opinions if you actually knew that Northern Ireland ISN"T PART OF THE REPUBLIC OF CANADA.<br /> <br /> So by your own admittance Norway is FAR from being in the crapper, its better than Canada and the states. So why not look at policies of that country? You can try to blend them in with Europe to back up a pointless view, that's your business, for actually dealing with policy though, its helpful to look at the specifics of each country. <br /> <br /> Switzerland: 4.1<br /> Sweden:5.5<br /> Denmark: 6<br /> Holland: 6<br /> <br /> So those are very in the ballpark for comparisons with Canada. Many of the countries experience high unemployment because of the vast numbers of immigrants coming from the near middle east. Canada has always been VERY fussy on immigration, while the states take as many illegals as will fill their orange groves.<br /> <br /> However, those arguments are pointless unless attached to a specific policy platform. There are as many 'good ideas' available in Europe as there are from the US, there is certainly no reason to discard an employment area because of its originating location.[/QUOTE]

[Brent Swain]

You want war? Then why haven't you signed up as a mecenary in Iraq? .It pays extemely well. Why would anyone with such beliefs work for less? Because you,like all macho right wingers who support killing innocents as a profitble and thus morally justified <br /> industry are total cowards when it come to putting their body where their oversized mouths are.Its something called the bravery of being out of range. Like many Bush supporters, who'd run like hell if they ever faced the prospect of going to the wars they so bravely advocate, you haven't the huevos.<br /> Being a hit man , killing innocent people for profit is a job that is available in cities too. Is that what you do for a living? Would you accept and condone anyone making a living killing your family members or friends (assuming you have any) as a good idea , justfied by the payoff?<br /> This is what is commonly known as a phsychotic, totally incapable of empathy.That part of the brain never developed.<br /> Brent Swain

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[QUOTE BY= Brent Swain] You want war? Then why haven't you signed up as a mecenary in Iraq? .It pays extemely well. Why would anyone with such beliefs work for less? Because you,like all macho right wingers who support killing innocents Brent Swain[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Are you implying that coalition troops are given marching orders to 'killing innocents'?<br /> <br /> If you see a man raping a woman what would you do? Would you try and stop it, or would you stand there and 'criticize' the situation?<br /> <br /> Listen, if you seriously believe that Coalition troops are 'killing innocents', then why don't you join AL-QAEDA and do Bin Laden's bidding...because right now, Bin Laden is the only douche-bag that would be agreeing with your hate-filled b.s.

[Brent Swain]

Instructions to bomb from a B52 are instructions to kill innocents. The mind of a phsychopath tends to see things in black and white, and either-or, and be incapable of seeing things in the varying shades of gray that is reality.<br /> Bin Ladin is a nutbar and had nothing to do with Iraq before the US invasion wiped out his main opponent.Two wrongs don't make a right, exchangeing one phsychopath for another doesn't solve anything.<br /> Dumping ten times the resources in Iraq as in Afghanistan ,instead of tracking Bin Ladin down in Afghanistan is what allowed him to escape and is why he still hasn't been captured.<br /> If you see one mass murderer attacking another, do you take sides, and support one? Duhhhh!<br /> Brent