Re: [Nolug] Who usually shows up for meetings?

I lost my place in the conversation, but I couldn't resist sending a link to this hilarious "propaganda" poster.

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Brett

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:35:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/08/08 17:48, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> >Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> >
> >>France and Germany were in deep trouble because of high unemployment
> >>and Big Union and Big Government being joined at the hip, even before
> >>last month's financial crisis.
> >
> >More fuel for the fire: http://xrl.us/o2kct
> >
> >According to that, the UK has far more ???external debt??? than Germany and
> >France (Finland is not mentioned).
> >
> >I'm not sure how meaningful the ???Effective Net Worth Per Citizen??? chart
> >is, but it *is* interesting.
>
> A third of the way down the page is this quote:
> So what are the causes of the high debt-to-income ratios in
> Europe? Expensive labor. Expensive exports. Expensive currency.
> Small population. High levels of taxation and large social
> welfare systems. On the international front, European nations
> are having a difficult time competing with an increasingly
> devalued dollar (and consequently the Chinese Yuan and The
> Japanese Yen), and domestically, these nations are taking care
> of their citizens to a point that would make any red-blooded
> Texas Republican cringe. And of course, the wealthy classes in
> these countries are so heavily taxed that money is being pumped
> back into the country???s extensive social programs that, perhaps
> counter-intuitively, can affect the economy negatively.
>
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> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA USA
>
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