It's Probably Nothing

The money quote . . .

""Poverty is returning to Europe," Jan Zijderveld, Unilever's top manager in Europe, told the Financial Times Deutschland on Monday. As a result, the company has begun offering smaller, less expensive packages so as not to put too great a strain on increasingly limited budgets. It is, Zijderveld noted to the paper, a strategy the company learned by doing business in the developing countries of Asia."

Ahhhhhh yes, poverty.

How progressive of them. Because they are smarter than us.

The fruit of socialism.

WE should get out of NATO ... Before the Europeons welcome the Soviets in.

I bet Spurwing Plover would have something to say about this...SQUAWK...

When a company like Unilever only sees a future of third world like poverty, alarm bells should be going off all over Europe.

This economic future isn't written in stone. It's written in endless short term deficits and long term debt.

Europeans to figure out a solvency plan, and then stick to it.

A friend of mine recently took a trip through southern europe. It was a tour of the new third world he told me.

And the Europeans still don't get it.

I don't know whether the Europeans get it or not. Most of them probably have a glimmer. But their new ruling elite is a remarkably insensitive lot,
occupied with their great dreams, in a way which would have startled the aristos of the 18th Century.

Sell smaller packages through the small openings in barred kiosks and guarded
barred window supermarkets could be one answer to Greece's problems.

Putting all the government employed crooks in jail and freeing up a sclerotic, semi
marxist, over taxed, over regulated, very corrupt society would be another.
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A combination of things put Europe in a state of ruin. What I got from the article is how to make money off of their now-poor backs.

I look forward to affordable Mediterranean villas.

Forget Europe and the Euro-Weenies who have looked down their noses at North America for at least the last 50 years.They deserve what ever they get,a more elitist bunch of A$$ holes would be hard to find on the Planet Earth.What ever happens to Europe is something they brought upon themselves,they need to get out of our lives here in North Amareica and concentrate on their own Euro-weenie lives back in what ever Sh!thole country they call home!

Most Europeans have always lived in poverty. That's why there are so many living here. Italy, Spain, Portugal Greece, and to a lessor extent France were populated by dirt poor peasants. The Northern European countries only slightly less so. They were richer because of industrialization and trade. In Britain, the days of industry and trade are over, and in Germany they are ending as a result of energy policy. The whole continent will be one of peasants again. That is the highest standard of living that subsistence agricultural on rented land will afford. Of course there will have to be the bloody ethnic cleansing to even get them back to that level since all the agricultural labour is now performed by Africans.

When Alberta's oil boom is done we'll get a touch of it here too. So be prepared, or our kids should be.

I remember doing business in the UK in the late 80's. The locals referred to the UK as a 2nd world country (those were days of less pc.).

We all know what was happening at the time as Maggie and Ron went about changing the world in ways that never happened in Europe.

Eutopia needs to have a good injection of fiscal conservatism and things can turn around.

I remember doing business in the UK in the late 80's. The locals referred to the UK as a 2nd world country (those were days of less pc.).

We all know what was happening at the time as Maggie and Ron went about changing the world in ways that never happened in Europe.

Eutopia needs to have a good injection of fiscal conservatism and things can turn around.