"Wilko" wrote in message
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Larry Cable wrote:

Any yet the CIA Fact Book doesn't paint a better picture of the
Netherlands.

Nah, it also used to paint a picture of the Netherlands being run by drug
lords. That "fact" was even carried along by a high ranking general on one
of his tours to try to intimidate the Dutch government. He was ashamed to
find out that those facts were not.

Yeah, let's take a look at those peace loving open armed people, eh?

Muslims kill one guy, and you go on rampages buring down schools, churches.

Seems strange that when 3000 people were killed here that us hateful,
bigotted people didn't go on a rampage to match yours. ummm.



Negative growth in GDP, and a public debt level that approaches the
percentage
of GDP that the US has during a war time economy.

I look forward to seeing the numbers to support that thesis. Do you happen
to have any links that prove your point?

Why are we in deeper trouble that the Netherlands, or any of the other
European
countries that are in the same shape?

Because the U.S. national debt is growing at an ever increasing rate,
because the U.S. has a negative trade deficit, because the U.S. has a
denomination in free fall, because the U.S. government needs to steal from
social security funds to finance its wars, because money being borrowed is
used to lower taxes for the super rich, and waging war. Neither of which
do much to help the economy in the long run, although it may help it look
like it is because for the time being a lot of that money flows into the
coffins of the big companies producing military material.

This gives me a different pov from the one you're describing:

http://www.geographyiq.com/countries...my_summary.htm

and

http://www.geographyiq.com/countries...es_economy.htm

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