EU just won't take "No" for an answer

[BUG_EAF322]

yep its my revenche to those money grabbing politicians.

their salary went up for 30%

while they tell us not to increase more than 1,5%

fk em

Most dutch are tired of it just like me .
And the netherlands are going to say no.

Things not getting expensive??
open ur eyes

a simple fried firites costed me way back about 1.75 guilder now its about 2 euro.

Stupidly we all swallow the euroshiat

In Spain, prices of most everyday stuff have doubled since the introduction of the Euro.

yep u guys upraded looks like u got more euros for pesetas than we got for our guilder.

[storch]

europe has, is and always will be a socialist quagmire.  europe and things european should be avoided as much as is possible by all Americans.  the only satisfactory solution for us is that when the euros won't play nice with each other again ( hmmm any time now given precedent) and after we go in and make things right again (for the fourth time) we should just make the whole place an amusement park for Americans so we can enjoy the colorful costumes and the funny shoes.  in fairness some of the beer ain't bad but that's about it.

[BUG_EAF322]

Better than german wanna be yankees.

Those are the kind really to evade.

[Staga]

Bug the Euro didn't change how much does your fries cost to you but your stores and hamburger joints.
You have brains; try to use them at least sometimes.

Let's make it easier for you: Did the price of your fries jump to 2,5x what it was in one night in 1999?
I don't think so.
What happened was that your shopkeepers found out that people (= You) don't know how to calculate prices in Euros and they found out easy way to increase their incoming.
In here shops had to put price in both currencies available; in FiMs and in Euros.
That way we could see immediately if the seller was trying to screw us with prices.

I'd say it's You who should open Your eyes and come back to reality.

[Gh0stFT]

BUG, you dream of an isolated country with stabile prices ?
lol welcome to the 21. Century! How long could you enjoy it
to not be a global player? it would function only for short
time and then it would be to late to enter the EU because
it would cost you much much more then.

[BUG_EAF322]

So im the only one here complaining i guess not.

This is not finland btw. oh and i could imagine the alcohol is cheaper as in finland so yes u where happy when u visited holland.

What about denmark and The UK they fare well still don't they.

screw the euro

screw europe

holland uber alles

[Lye-El]

I got as far as nanny state then lost interest due to political bias...........

[storch]

Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
So im the only one here complaining i guess not.

This is not finland btw.

What about denmark and The UK they fare well still don't they.

screw the euro

screw europe

holland uber alles

good for you!  now what about the funny shoes?

[BUG_EAF322]

yeah ban all nikes acsics tigers converse shoes buy adidas .

[csThor]

Bug - be happy that you actually can vote. We germans weren't even asked.

The main problem lies IMO elsewhere. It's not the Euro or the bureaucrats in Brussels - it's the speed of the changes within the EU. I mean sixty years ago we Euros (and half of the world) were beating up each other and finding new ways of killing the other. Then we went into Cold War for 40 years which did not help friendship between countries and especially people, either.

And now these fat-prettythanged Eurocrats expect us to cheer for Europe, give up national sovereignty for a dubious parliament and let us be ruled by folks we don't know and we can't control?

I think the voting in France - as well as the coming one in the Netherlands - will show one thing:

The idea of Europe is not dead, but you can't push it through in just two decades. It will take time - maybe a generation or two.

[BUG_EAF322]

The new europe

[Krusher]

Originally posted by Momus--
Wow, yet another factually flawed piece from one of the tame journos belonging to corrupt far-right anti-EU press baron and team Bush cheerleader Conrad Black.

Who would have thought it?

WTG !
Attack the substance/writer and the source,   then for good measure tie them to Bush..

[Momus--]

Originally posted by Krusher
WTG !
Attack the substance/writer and the source,   then for good measure tie them to Bush..

Whatever. Conrad Black owns the Chicago Sun-Times. He is a corrupt press baron currently facing charges from your own SEC over his fraudulent activities. He is an avowed anti-european pro-Israel/US right wing activist and has no shame in interfering editorially when it suits him, and I quote:

"If editors disagree with us they should disagree with us when they're no longer in our employ...The buck stops with ownership. I am responsible for meeting the payroll; therefore I will ultimately determine what the papers say and how they're going to be run."

Mark Steyn is a Conrad Black hack through and through. I am familiar enough with his UK output to know before reading the article cited that it will be long on exageration and short on fact. A reading of the article confirms this; in between the bouts of hyperbolic masturbation Steyn tries to address at least one factual issue and fails miserably since he can't even get Jean-Claude Juncker's role right. Furthermore while Will Hutton might indeed be a crashing bore, he is an order of magnitude more erudite than Mark Steyn.

But after all, this is just an Op-Ed piece that doesn't even try to masquerade as a factual article (as is typical for Steyns output) so I am quite within my rights to attack the source since it has the utmost relevance to the credibility of the article.

[Monk]

Hmmm......Bug you sound like one of them real Euro's that I talk to on the street.

[mora]

Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
This is not finland btw. oh and i could imagine the alcohol is cheaper as in finland so yes u where happy when u visited holland.

Well... At least the drugs cost the same as before so it's not all that bad.