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Originally posted by daskakik\
"The push for an EU fiscal union"-----I think you're a little confused, the Euro *is* the fiscal union, what they're pushing for is a closer political union with less sovereignty over national budgets.
That is what they called it in the article I posted.
That was the plan from the very beginning
Right which is why I said the threat of starvation was never there.
I'm Guatemalan. You can check my posting history, I have mentioned it a few times. Yes there is a disparity between the rich and the poor but that is true all over the world and we do have a middle class.
Your ignorance is showing. Minimum wage in Guatemala is actually $4100 a year (about 1/4 the US). 96% of children are enrolled in school and adult illiteracy is 24%. 66% of women and 48% of men are overweight. That is the truth, not some MSM piece made to pluck at your heart strings.
Originally posted by 00nunya00
No, you didn't get that---the plan from the beginning---publicly----was to form a political union from the financial one, it's not a conspiracy, it's just what they planned. It doesn't mean anything to saving the Euro or preventing collapse or starvation.
That's great, North Korea has a middle class too. Doesn't mean I want to live there, and last time I checked, your country was featured on Save The Children commercials and has been accused of stealing and selling your nation's children to my country's gullible desperate adoptive parents. Sound like paradise to you? Not to me.
WOW, a whole quarter of the minimum wage of my country, that is unlivable and staggeringly oppressive? What an accomplishment! Your country has contracted Type 2 diabetes? What a wonderful system you have! Truly, you've made your point well. I'm booking my tickets to Guatemala and expatriating immediately.
Originally posted by daskakik
Originally posted by 00nunya00
No, you didn't get that---the plan from the beginning---publicly----was to form a political union from the financial one, it's not a conspiracy, it's just what they planned. It doesn't mean anything to saving the Euro or preventing collapse or starvation.
Never said it was, I was talking about the Greek situation used to bring about the transition with less opposition because everyone believes the world is going to implode.
Yeah a few MSM snippets show what an entire country is really like.
It still doesn't change the fact that it doesn't fit you failed attempt at defining what a third world budget is, but you clearly pointed it out as such, which proves that you have no idea what your talking about.
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Originally posted by daskakik
Please, if I apply the same logic that you are using then I could say that the guy living in the US, under a bridge with balled up newspaper to stave off hypothermia and digging through garbage for food is what life for the average american is like. Then I could say that you are denying reality when you tell me that the average american doesn't live like that.
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Originally posted by daskakik
reply to post by 00nunya00
Now your putting words in my mouth. I never said the third world was paradise. I said it isn't as bad as you believe it to be. I actually stated that if the US was to fall to third world status that it would be "tough times" which is a lot more honest and accurate than your claim of the "end of the world".
And the kicker is that it probably isn't even going to happen.
Originally posted by 00nunya00
Who's putting words in mouths now? *I* never claimed the end of the world, I defended the wording in its figurative sense relative to the level of comfort the first world enjoys, to which you put up an argument based on its literal meaning. And much hilarity ensured.
In my view, the first world nations turning into third world cesspools with third-world budgets for their people is as close to the end of the world as we're ever going to realistically get. Barring the ELE meteor strike or whatnot, this is it.
And the real kicker is that all of your freelance web work will dry right up in the next year or two, and you'll get to find out what a third world budget really is for yourself.
Originally posted by daskakik
Originally posted by 00nunya00
Who's putting words in mouths now? *I* never claimed the end of the world, I defended the wording in its figurative sense relative to the level of comfort the first world enjoys, to which you put up an argument based on its literal meaning. And much hilarity ensured.
Actually you said:
In my view, the first world nations turning into third world cesspools with third-world budgets for their people is as close to the end of the world as we're ever going to realistically get. Barring the ELE meteor strike or whatnot, this is it.
You placed it one step below an ELE. Now your trying to claim it was figurative to save face. No, they are your words, own up to them.
And the real kicker is that all of your freelance web work will dry right up in the next year or two, and you'll get to find out what a third world budget really is for yourself.
Not if the collapse never happens, but I already live on an actual third world budget and not that unreal post you made about illiteracy and scrounging for 1000 calories a day, that you based on some charity's advertisement designed to get you to open up your wallet.
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