that justifies your opinion.
The conservative Die Welt writes:
"In this period of competing debt crises, America and Europe are
looking at each other in amazement, with each side understanding less
and less about what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic.
While Europe's chaos is obvious to the Europeans and the rest of the
world, there are few signs of self-doubt or self-awareness in the US.
In the middle of the poker game between the two political parties to
prevent a national default on Aug. 2, polls show that 77 percent of
Americans believe that they live in the world's greatest system of
government. Just as many are convinced that life is only worth living
as an American."
"Democrats and Republicans are so hopelessly embroiled in a religious
war that compromise and pragmatism are just dreams from a far-off era
of reason. … The influence of the Tea Party movement … can not be
overestimated. … The movement sees traditional politics as corrupt and
regards Washington as a den of iniquity. … They see the other side as
their enemy. Negotiations with the Democrats, whether it's about
appointing a judge or the insolvency of the United States, are only
successful if the enemy is defeated. Compromise, they feel, is a sign
of weakness and cowardice."
When you sit in Europe and watch the Americans (The favorit past time
of many Europeans.) you can not help but think that they tick in
another way. For us, USA is the wild man in the desert with the bible
in one hand and a six gun in the other hand. Americans are for
overkill. You do not use a newspaper to kill the fly. You kill the fly
with a 357 Magnum. It does not matter if the wall is no longer there
as long as the fly is dead. Look at the Casey Anthony case. You want
her dead and not just hanging from a tree. You want a stain on the
wall as a sign of justice. When it comes to the debt situation in the
United States you see this as a chance to chrush Obama. When he is
chrushed, the Chinese loose 75 percent of their reserves, meaning that
they can no longer sustain their economy. This means that artificial
societies like the oil countries dependant on Americas momentum are
also unstable. You can take this to any place in the world where the
dollar controls the economy. This crisis started with Bush and Obama
has got to clean it up. Here in Europe you really have to question
the state of mind of a lot of your politicians. This is not like I am
saying that we have it better here. The difference seems to be that
you can take a nut case like Palin and make her president. In France
we would accept that a Strauss Kahn rapes the hotel maid in New York,
writes a book on social conditions of working class in France and then
elect him. What is the difference? Strauss Kahn does not have an army
that can march into Iraq to take over the oil fields, find no threat
or reason for being there, and end up having to pay to get the Iraq
back on it feet at the cost of the French taxpayer. In Germany, the
American Boy Scouts are stronger than the German Army, but we have
medical care for everyone who can drag himself to a hospital.
The one thing that is hard is that America is 110 percent when it
comes to doing something. I mean this in saving the lives of people in
an area devistated by a natural disaster. The Americans are first
there with a bang. You look up in the sky and see the Americans with
30 planes carrying food. Behind them are two German planes carrying
food and one of the planes has motor problems. We can only hope that
America is not 110 percent when it comes to destroying it own
existance.
On Jul 17, 3:48 pm, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> *n That Case, The World Had Better Pay Up: *That was my first (and
> admittedly ill-tempered) reaction to this story
> <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,774666,00.html> from
> Germany.
>
> The mass-circulation Bild writes:
>
> "Playing poker is part of politics, as is theatrical posturing.
> That's fair enough. But what America is currently exhibiting is
> the worst kind of absurd theatrics. And the whole world is being
> held hostage."
>
> "Irrespective of what the correct fiscal and economic policy should
> be for the most powerful country on earth, it's simply not possible
> to stop taking on new debt overnight. Most importantly, the
> Republicans have turned a dispute over a technicality into a
> religious war, which no longer has any relation to a reasonable
> dispute between the elected government and the opposition."
>
> Because there isn't a nation in the world that is capable of mounting a
> hostage rescue mission against the US.
>
> I might not have reacted so sharply to that collection of German
> reactions to our crisis, if it were not for this fact: Not one of the
> selections that /Der Spiegel/ published mentioned President Obama's
> failure to /even present a plan/ to solve our long-term fiscal problems.
> But it is the Republicans these news organizations blame, mostly.
>
> (Here's a description of /Bild/ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild>, if
> you are wondering what kind of newspaper it is.)
> - 12:10 PM, 17 July 2011 [link]
> <http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/July2011_3.html#jrm10082>
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