Research Q's for Europeans(or anyone who might know)

[MeDeFe]

Why are we so concerned with what some jealous Europeans think? I don't care much for the uninformed opinions of those who believe the most successful country in the world is populated by fat, lazy idiots...

Wales is the most successful country in the world?

The Socialist Republic of Wales is awesome. It's not always raining!

[thegreekdog]

Let's just say I agree that million dollar bonuses are ridiculous when the company that gives them out also gets bailed out by the government... and then gives out million dollar bonuses.

well at least we can agree on that then

speaking of which: some people want their government to keep their hands off anything labelled 'economy", but when thousands face losing their jobs because those companies which cannot fail screw up, the government has to step in anyway... like "why doesn't the government do more to battle the crisis and minimise the job loss? that Obama is good for nothing" being said by people who don't want any government interference in the economy to start out with if you go with a certain system and claim it's the best in the world and all other models are inferior, don't be a hypocrit and go to the government crying that you lost your minimum wage job

I don't have a mininum wage job, so I'm not sure the above applies to me. In any event, it's debatable whether a hands-off approach is what screwed up the economy (I think it had something to do with it, but my opinion means next to nothing in economic discourse) or whether a hands-on approach screwed up the economy (see previous paranthetical). Further, I'm not one of those people who would cry to the government about losing my job, and I don't think most fiscally conservative people are those types of people either. Perhaps what you're trying to say is that people who are unemployed are angry at the president; perhaps this is true, but are they angry because they think the president isn't getting them a new job, or are they angry because the president isn't dolling out dollars, or are they angry because the president is spending money like water on programs that they don't think we need.

[jonesthecurl]

Why are we so concerned with what some jealous Europeans think? I don't care much for the uninformed opinions of those who believe the most successful country in the world is populated by fat, lazy idiots...

Wales is the most successful country in the world?

The Socialist Republic of Wales is awesome. It's not always raining!

When I was in Neath at Thanksgiving, I heard a rumour that there had been a day back in 1836 that it didn't rain locally.
But you know how good we Celts are at making up legends.