“No taxation without representation”. The cry is familiar, except in this case it is s the Redcoats that are saying it as Germany sends the taxman to collect money from Britain to bail out the EU.
“No taxation without representation”. The cry is familiar, except in this case it is s the Redcoats that are saying it as Germany sends the taxman to collect money from Britain to bail out the EU.
Payback’s a b!tch, ain’t it?
Either pay up or we will turn left and march into Poland or bomb oil fields/pipelines in Canada..
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We shall fight them on the beaches,
in the bushes, Uhhhh..
Pierre Trudeau
Just as long as the Euro-wienies don’t expect us to save the socialist/eco-tard butts this time! fawke them all. You lay down with diseased dogs,the payback beyotch gets ya(sorry about mixed metaphors,need more coffee :):) )
Maybe it is time for a Tea Party.
Jack’s Newswatch picked this up.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062015/Eurozone-crisis-Merkel-ally-says-UK-fall-line-oppose-Tobin-tax.html
China saved/slaved us,
Maybe Bambi can shuck, jive,
and bow to get Europe a 10 trillion dollar/uhhh! Euro bailout..
We shall fight them on the beaches,
in the bushes, Uhhhh..
Pierre Trudeau
Posted by: Fearless Leader at November 16, 2011 8:47 AM
Olease, allow me to finish that for you, FL:
We shall fight them on the beaches,
ugh, I mean,
We shall fight them in the bushes,
errr…how about,
They shall find me in the bushes
Pierre Trudeau
I love how that works. The bums are saying ‘It’s all up to Britain to make the EU a success now…’. Good gravy – now Britain is going to be the bad guy? Dontchya think the PIIGS bear some responsibility for what is going to happen regardless of the bailouts?
Let me see if I have the Churchill script right. This is the point where Cameron hops up on the soap box waving a useless piece of paper signed by the Germans and proclaims “We shall have financial responsibility in our time!”
When Germany flips out and lights the fuse on WW3…can we let them keep France this time? It would serve them right if we stuck them with Quebec too.
Sometimes I should be serious..
I remember a time not long ago when the European leaders demanded their own currency.
Not so much for the *united* currency and *united* European states,
but as a backlash against the almighty dollar.
When I traveled we were told that someday we would need to replace our dollars with the Euro,
coins and all..
I especially remember a smart@ss lecture from a flight steward in Greece..
All I can say is “welcome to the real world of financial reality”..
Not that we in the US of A couldn’t still use a good financial lecture,
but still I think we can make a long comeback..
Hilarious-
but also concerning.
Hell, I wonder if she even bothered to ask her own people if THEY like bailing out everybody. Why should ordinary industrious Germans pay for slovenly, entitled Greeks and Italians? I guess even she never learned this important tidbit from history – don’t pi** off the Germans…it never ends well…even if its your own people
and Britain should say HELL NO.
Justthinkin, of course we’re going to pay. IMF has a large role in this, and there will likely be a call on the members.
Canada is a member.
Reality is going to overcome Fairy God Mother Merkel in the form of an election. Maybe she can pass an Enabling Act to stay in power because of the economic emergency.
Sorry for the Off Post-
But we are talking about dumb ass financial decisions..
The State Department on Tuesday denied the delay in the Trans-Canadian Keystone oil pipeline is designed to appease environmentalists — a core constituency of the Obama administration, and refused to budge on a new environmental review of the project now not slated for completion until 2013, after the presidential election.
Our shuck and jiving Clown act is back..
As Mark Steyn observes in his book After America, The Euro socialists have run out of other people’s money to burn and they are running out of people to tax because they aren’t having babies. So they have to tax things. First it was cow farts and now it is financial transactions. There is no end to the desperate ingenuity of tax collectors charged with keeping government spendaholics (and themselves) in business.
Kate, You are on a roll today.
What a joke. Order your own meal, ask for a separate check and still be charged extra…….just ’cause you sat at the same table? This will not fly.
The EU is to England as Quebec is to Canada.
Let the leeches prove they can survive on their own.
Good for Cameron for calling them out on this.
Good for Flaherty for diplomatically telling the IMF to go to hell.
Bankers crisis 1905 – led to WWI
Banking crisis 1929-1933 led to WWII
Banking crisis 2008 – 2011 leads to ???
And now for todays reading Luke 19:11-28
12 He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive a kingdom and then return. 13 Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, `Trade with these till I come.’ 14 But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, `We do not want this man to reign over us.’ 15 When he returned, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading. 16 The first came before him, saying, `Lord, your pound has made ten pounds more.’ 17 And he said to him, `Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ 18 And the second came, saying, `Lord, your pound has made five pounds.’ 19 And he said to him, `And you are to be over five cities.’ 20 Then another came, saying, `Lord, here is your pound, which I kept laid away in a napkin; 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 He said to him, `I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Why then did you not put my money into the bank, and at my coming I should have collected it with interest?’ 24 And he said to those who stood by, `Take the pound from him, and give it to him who has the ten pounds.’ 25 (And they said to him, `Lord, he has ten pounds!’) 26 `I tell you, that to every one who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 27 But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'”
It appears the UK and EU will be having a ‘spirited debate.’
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
This is off topic, but it just hit me coming to this site today. The UI here is really starting to feel dated. I gather that there’s likely some kind of stubborn KISS mantra behind it all, but seriously, upgrades are necessary or traffic will eventually begin to slow.
Here are a couple of suggestions for remaining relevant:
– Incorporate “like”s “+1″s and other redistribution linkers that allow readers to share the article on social media sites.
– The comments section is kind of archaic as well. While you may decry anything CBC, take a look at the format for article feedback on their site. The ability to like/dislike comments and reply is a nice step and makes the place more engaging for readers.
– Incorporate a plugin within your blogging software to serve up the page in a mobile friendly format when looked at on smartphones.
That is all for now.
I’m not worried about another war in Europe. The current Leaders haven’t the balls to actually fight over anything,and they’d probably have a civil war in each Country if they tried to invoke a draft.
No,I expect soon they’ll look to us and China for bailouts,and we’ll have to see if our own leaders have the sense to stay out of Europe’s problems,finally.
Idea: why doesn’t the EU approach Saudi Arabia for a bailout? They’re reasonable people and they already own half of Britain.
There is something curious about this.
The Germans are self disciplined and industrious and the engine that runs Europe without diktat.
Now, they have this European Union that started as a common market. It is turning into a diktat of the socialist/fascist aristocrats of Europe. Understand that the socialists/fascists/communists are the aristocrats of today, though the communists are sitting on the sidelines, enjoying the goings on.
Britain got into the market as a partner, knowing that it’s not going to be without severe costs in treasure. While they should hold their own, other countries will pull another direction. As it is everyone wants their cake and eat it too.
Germans, it seems have no way out of this, whatsoever they do there is no win for them.
If they decide to go their own way and abandon the bankrupt countries, they of course will be the villain.
If they decide, they paid enough and will pay no more, they will be the villain.
If they by Jove tell the losers to carry their bags and get to work, they will be the villain.
It used to be that that United States was blamed for just about everything that went wrong with the world, at one time.
As it is the times are changing and the blame is shifted to another group.
Hanford HERE’S YOUR FEED BACK. If you don’t like it here go away.
The underlying problem (other than the Southern Nations sloth, debt, and the unsustainable welfare-nanny states) is the common currency. Germany has a captive market for exports tied to a currency their customers can no longer afford. The PIIGS should have retained their own currencies which they could devalue as required by their relative sloth as compared to Germany and the rest of the world. Greece could boost tourism for example with a cheap enough Drachma. Here, the Brits got it right.
The Euro will likely have to be abandoned or devalued by the printing presses, not something the Germans will go along with peacefully.
What a@c said!
Seems to me that the Brits opted to keep the pound sterling and stay out of the Euro. That would be a rather good reason to tell those that opted for the Euro to go and pound (not sterling) salt.
Soccer is all the war they need nowadays.
I figure Ronaldo and Rooney could probably bail out Greece in their spare time.
By the way, Hanford, -100 to you.
I would prefer to do my own thinking and not check the state broadcaster’s herd of trained seals to find out what I should be thinking. Although it works almost perfectly the other way round.
Management speak has been about win-wins for the last decade or more.
What we have here is a Ponzi scheme unravelling, we get to see what a lose-lose is like, because we are all going to lose.
The socialists had their way promising “free” healthcare, “free” babysitting, “equal rights”, “the cost of this programme is only pennies per day”-now the bills are coming due. Euro, US, Canadian politicians cannot resolve this without creating money, since there is no real growth in any of their economies, you are gonna see inflation. Goodbye savings, goodbye pensions.
The only change you will not see is in the programmes that created these problems. The socialists will cling to them bitterly. You get to pay for $5-a-day babysitting in Quebec forever.
EU economic solutions are simply clones of a couple of old mobster rackets – loan sharking and counterfeiting. The central banks are offering to militarize debt (printing worthless fait money) and the IMF is offering bailouts with ruinous lending conditions. I guess the nations involved think robbery is a better option and the UK seems like a docile subjugated victim.
I’d hate to be a trader in Europe these days with all the junk national bonds flooding markets these days.
This is the result of transnational socialism and collectivist economics people. There’s a reason bankers love socialists – because they’re always broke and borrowing.
This attempt by the euro countries to get a non-euro country to help them out reminds me of this blazing saddle scene:
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=39&ved=0CEIQtwIwCDge&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZ_JOGmXpe5I&ei=yn_ETpjGA4jmiAKLwZ3FBQ&usg=AFQjCNFgw5aE_IoXpyXVTC8ftjWGQL2TSg
This story from several sources”
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/the-truth-will-out-on-labors-carbon-scam/story-e6frezz0-1226197176697
Aussies are being told it will be illegal to blame price rises on the new carbon tax. What will be put on invoices and receipts?
This is not a tax.
Climate donation
Blue Parrot Fund
The tax that dare not be named
Price enhancement
Julia’s Hair Stylist Fee
Imagine the signs that could be displayed in stores:
Dear customer, the current price rise has nothing whatsoever to do with JULIA’S NEW TAX.
The possibilities are endless.