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"…The results can be seen in the numbers.* Europe’s economy is growing at an anemic 0.8% compared to the United States’ 3.8%.* American unemployment hovers around 5%, while Germany has its highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression (13%).* All these numbers indicate that Europe will remain an also ran in the world economy after the United States, Japan, China, and India.
While the EU is working diligently on improving its economic competitiveness, frequently it is American companies that are stepping in to revive the lagging European economies.*
For example, the 2000 Lisbon Agenda, which in 5 years has failed to improve business efficiency in Europe is now revitalized due to Microsoft Corporation’s involvement, and Europe’s flailing retail sector is waiting in breathless anticipation for Wal-Mart to fulfill its pledge to open stores in every country in the EU.* This is good news for the European economy.* They will get jobs, capital investment, and new models of efficiency and profitability, but for Euro-businessmen, it is a disaster.* Think about the business practices of Wal-Mart and Microsoft. European businesses are toast.
The end result is Europeans must seek out new secondary markets for their goods and services where they are better able to compete against the American business juggernaut. In the modern world economy, this means that they are increasingly forced to deal with those nations where American companies are barred or limited by American legislation from entering; a.k.a. The Axis of Evil.*
Despite their claims of sophistication and peacefulness, Europe’s governments are doing what governments have done for centuries, protecting their economic interests.* While the United Nations is filled with wild accusations that the United States is going to war for oil in Iraq, it is actually the Europeans who were obstructing the United States in an attempt to prop up the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein and maintain a “no American oil company zone” in Iraq in order to protect their own oil interests.* The hypocrisy extends further as the EU claims to be trying to work for peace in the Middle East while they are simply begging the Iranians to keep its markets open to their products.* And if the Iranians happen to use the time they buy in making a treaty they intend to violate to actually develop nuclear weapons, then so be it.* The Europeans are hoping that the Iranians will only incinerate Tel Aviv and not Rome.* But at least this way they will not have to look at changing their failed Socialist welfare state policies which are the root of their problem anyway.*
michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7138.shtml
While the EU is working diligently on improving its economic competitiveness, frequently it is American companies that are stepping in to revive the lagging European economies.*
For example, the 2000 Lisbon Agenda, which in 5 years has failed to improve business efficiency in Europe is now revitalized due to Microsoft Corporation’s involvement, and Europe’s flailing retail sector is waiting in breathless anticipation for Wal-Mart to fulfill its pledge to open stores in every country in the EU.* This is good news for the European economy.* They will get jobs, capital investment, and new models of efficiency and profitability, but for Euro-businessmen, it is a disaster.* Think about the business practices of Wal-Mart and Microsoft. European businesses are toast.
The end result is Europeans must seek out new secondary markets for their goods and services where they are better able to compete against the American business juggernaut. In the modern world economy, this means that they are increasingly forced to deal with those nations where American companies are barred or limited by American legislation from entering; a.k.a. The Axis of Evil.*
Despite their claims of sophistication and peacefulness, Europe’s governments are doing what governments have done for centuries, protecting their economic interests.* While the United Nations is filled with wild accusations that the United States is going to war for oil in Iraq, it is actually the Europeans who were obstructing the United States in an attempt to prop up the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein and maintain a “no American oil company zone” in Iraq in order to protect their own oil interests.* The hypocrisy extends further as the EU claims to be trying to work for peace in the Middle East while they are simply begging the Iranians to keep its markets open to their products.* And if the Iranians happen to use the time they buy in making a treaty they intend to violate to actually develop nuclear weapons, then so be it.* The Europeans are hoping that the Iranians will only incinerate Tel Aviv and not Rome.* But at least this way they will not have to look at changing their failed Socialist welfare state policies which are the root of their problem anyway.*
michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7138.shtml
