Vive la France!!!! Just say non!

ipaintminis

Active member
Originally posted by marineboy
Hmmm....

Unthinking voters are the root of all problems in national and international politics...

My final paper in American Gov\'t was titled \"Americans Are Too Stupid to Vote\" It was all about how Jefferson stated that once americans (or any country for that matter) stoped paying attention to politics and their own govt that eventually that govt will collaspe, if not physically, ethically. i aced the paper, but i think the prof just liked the title. :flip:
 

supervike

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Originally posted by Lurch
But dont worry, the US\'s turn is right around the corner as we try and pass NAFTA\'s little brother CAFTA

Where is Ross Perot and his \'giant sucking sound\' quote when we need him??
 

dauber22

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Originally posted by ipaintminis
My final paper in American Gov\'t was titled \"Americans Are Too Stupid to Vote\" It was all about how Jefferson stated that once americans (or any country for that matter) stoped paying attention to politics and their own govt that eventually that govt will collaspe, if not physically, ethically. i aced the paper, but i think the prof just liked the title. :flip:

Nah. It has been my experience that almost all Poli Sci Proffessors in this country don\'t really believe in democracy :D They actually believe that only themselves and a few other proffessors are smart enough to actually be trusted to vote. :D Therefore, you (wisely) played right in to thier hands! Good Going on acing the paper.
 

Evil Dave

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Originally posted by green stuff
Message original : finn17
Politicians and beaurocrats I am prepared to insult directly, be they English, German, French or Klingon.:D
I resent that !!! Talking about my country-men next to the Klingons, how revolting :p ;)!

Yeah, Klingons can fight. :D:D:D:p:p
 

frenchkid

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I definetly think there is a european cultur. I mean imagine you were to be droped anywere in the world without knowing were you landed, you\'d reconizeimediatly were you to be in europe, people basically have the same culture, of course their are differences. But are you going to tell me all the 51 US states get along, and I\'m pretty sure hawaii dosn\'t have the same cultur as new-york. And from experience I can say people don\'t have the same culture in NYC then texas. So claiming that because of small diferences we can\'t be united seems a bit unfounded to me. I mean really if you want to get down to it like that, my county as different cultur then the north of the country. dosn\'t stop us from beeing all french :p


Becca: You should read toqueville ;)
 

Etherion

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Here\'s a strange thing to get you thinking...

The country I live in shares borders with France, Germany, Austria and Italy. We speak French, German and Italian. But We are not part of the EU...

As far as I know my country has more ties (esp. financially) to the US than to Europe.

But It is right smack in the middle of it.

Btw if you look at a Euro-bill theres a small map of europe - the Hole in its center would be the country I live in.

This is weird...

???
 

frenchkid

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eh eh, swiss exeption :p
I do find it funny that I live right next to swiss but never ever hear about it in the news. But they do have nice ski stations though :duh:
 

Etherion

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@FK On the other Hand our media covers much of the things happening around us.

Todays Headline: \"Chirac a sad example of a President\"

Seriously and no offense to any who like the good ol nuketester lol
 

Legacy Account

Active member
He\'s bent as a nine-bob note...

:D

I see he\'s palming it off on the country not wanting an \'Anglo-Saxon\' influenced economy....

Stupid old twat. He\'s too scared to quit cos he\'ll be up on charges of corruption...:D
 

MarkusTay

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Originally posted by Lurch
Actually, this is a good time for us Americans to make our Rackham and other overseas purchases.Last month the exhange rate was 1 EUR = 1.76 USD

today:
1 EUR = 1.23377 USD

In fact, after the Netherlands vote \"NEE\"
I predict another drop in the exchange rates.
Rackham.. here I come :p
Oh my God! This is great lol

If this isn\'t the definition of all things \'American\'...

\"They seem to be having a spot of trouble overseas, maybe we can turn this to our financial advantage?\"

Thank you Lurch for proving the stereotype, that was the best chuckle I\'ve had today. :D

On a serious note, someone mentioned that \'cheap foreign labor\' will destroy your economies. We were fed this same bowl of horsesh_t when they were trying to pass NAFTA. Let me tell you a little story...

A long time ago I was a laborer in the construction trade. As time went on and I started getting my own work I needed help. Most of the American labor was too expensive (and lazy) for me to make any money, so I would do what every other guy was doing. I would pick-up a few El Salvadoran day-laborers to work for me. I paid them well, bought them lunch, and only made them work a normal eight hour day. In return, they worked their asses off, made me money, and made more money for themselves IN ONE DAY then they would make in a week back home. People complain that they take our jobs, but that simply isn\'t so. By moving here in droves (millions) and doing jobs no one else wants they fill a need and in return create a further market for more goods and services in the areas they occupy. Instead of hurting the Long Island economy they have boosted it. Although this may be a terrible thing to say, the truth is in order for a person to MOVE UP the socio-economic ladder there must be someone else willing to move into the bottom. More Americans have moved into positions of skilled labor because the lower jobs were filled, and the people who filled them have JUST AS MUCH a chance to move up when the next wave hits. I\'m not trying to sound like some sort of elitist jerk, but this is simply how the world works. Take a long hard look at America before you start complaining about immigrants \'raining\' on your parade. Immigration and more importantly Intergration is the future, it\'s what keeps our capitalist juggernaught rumbling ever FORWARD.

or I could be totally wrong... who the hell knows? lol

:D;)
 

frenchkid

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Originally posted by Spacemunkie
He\'s bent as a nine-bob note...

:D

I see he\'s palming it off on the country not wanting an \'Anglo-Saxon\' influenced economy....

Stupid old twat. He\'s too scared to quit cos he\'ll be up on charges of corruption...:D

actually that was meant as an attack at sarkozy wich as been campaining for an anglo-saxon model. But don\'t worry zarko is the next president so we\'ll get the american model :p
And damn right about chirac he\'s getting way to old, don\'t even know how he though he could run for a third term :eek::|~
 

green stuff

Active member
Message original : minimaker
Origineel geplaatst door Evil DaveYeah, Klingons can fight. :D:D:D:p:p
On the other hand, they can\'t cook. ;)
LMAO lol.

Just to get things straight, we can fight, but we prefer to do it when it\'s justified (and I\'m not trying to argu on the old \"the end justifies the means\" thing, just trying to explain why we reacted that way ;)).

@FK : I have doubts that the right wing will keep the power with what happened ... then again, the left wing wound need to get its show tidied up ;) ... hum your forecast for a sixth republic might be right after all :p.
 

Dr Sanch

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Got to agree with what MarkusTay is saying about immigration. The UK is built and kept running by immigrants form all over the world, traditionally people from the commonwealth and now from eastern europe. I work with a few Polish lads and they work a lot harder than the english lads who were doing the job before them. They see it as perhaps beneath them or not worth there time where as the Polish lads work hard all day and tell me it\'s a very good job and that the hours are excellent.

Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation mainly by the tabloids that tell us all immigrants are looking for free money healthcare and are all involved in organised crime. Of course there will be some like this but the majority come here to work and fill the jobs that others won\'t do.

I think our current level of involvement with Europe is just about right, any more and it will all go tits up.
 

Astorderire

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@ Finn17: In fact I don\'t know what I meant when I wrote that silly thing. The better part of my brain ended in a handkerchief in the night before and today I\'m sneezing myself into a very european sate: brainless.
Maybe my intend was to write that before trying to unite people under the same constitution, it seems wise to wait that they want to be united.
I think one can feel Klingon and European at the same time, but we still have to define what is \" being European\".
So you are not afraid of defying Klingon politicians but would your courage extand to Romulan ones?
 
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