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Lisabtrucking Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:25 PM
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Protests in Germany, They don't want no cowboy.
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 04:07 PM by Lisabtrucking
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:27 PM
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:32 PM
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2. Huh?
People are protesting the unnecessary loss of life and you bring up some issue regarding the unemployment rate? Are you saying Germany should have gone to war so that there would be less unemployment? I'm trying to find some logical thought process in your remark.
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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:32 PM
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3. With all that unemployment apparently they have enough time to
protest. Americans, apparently, are too busy slaving away for minimum wage. What's your point? I'd rather be unemployed than working at Walmart.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:35 PM
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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:37 PM
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6. What's wrong with protesting?
Thousands enjoy doing that.
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icehenge Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:42 PM
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How is your job there?
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:42 PM
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13. Wal-Mart pays its workers so little
that we the taxpayer end up paying them a supplement in the form of food stamps and by having higher insurance premiums because they can't pay medical bills when they get sick. (Wal-Mart does not offer health insurance to its workers)
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:39 PM
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:43 PM
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14. Touche!
A freeper is always more worried about unemployment and social program costs overseas rather than at home.
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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:48 PM
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16. Anyone who has to ask "what's wrong with walmart?"
has no intention of a 'thought process' to begin with. I agree with your citing the town hall meeting as a good example. There are many in this country who are still fascinated with quantity and have no concept of quality. "Three jobs! Wow, that's great. What a prosperous country we live in when a person cannot only have one job, but three!"
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:35 PM
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5. Germany is protesting * telling them what to do.
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 03:36 PM by CottonBear
The Germans are very happy with the current situation in Germany. They have universal health care and education, excellent transportation, world class scientists and research institutions and an a diverse culture.

I would suggest that * and the Republicans spend their time doing something about American jobs and social programs other than destroying them.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:37 PM
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:37 PM
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8. Actually the European community has not tried to 'hide' the depression
from their people by going to war. A lack of jobs will be an American thing in a few years. When Bush's War ends and America actually has to do what the entire Western world will be doing: maturing gracefully. The whole BRIC thing: Brazil, RUSSIA, India & China (and now perhaps Iran because of the wonderful Bush policies) will run jobs away from the traditional Western powers.

Europeans are actually taking their 'medicine' in a timely fashion and thus avoiding an even bigger depression. The USA has 'skipped' over its depression by going to war. And when the bills come due..they will have to be paid 5 times over.

So be a snob and laugh at the EU. They are getting over themselves and will be ready and lean to fight and succeed and be respected in the New World order while.. if freepers have their way ... America will be in a huge recession but happily opiated not by Afghanistan, but by Patriotism. Making sure that America does not 'deal with reality' for another decade... and knowing full well that cost will be paid by the workers & the poor, George Bush goes to Europe and LECTURES THEM on how to keep their house in order.

What a fool!
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:38 PM
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10. And yet they choose to protest a lying warmonger instead.
Where are their priorities! To be concerned about the well being and lives of someone other than themselves. The shame of it! :eyes:
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:41 PM
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12. They calculate unemployment differently than we do
apples and oranges

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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:46 PM
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15. Correct
I understand that if the US measured unemployment the same way Germany did, the US rate would be about 18%
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:38 PM
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9. Luckily for them, they aren't getting a cowboy
They are getting a East Coast elitist who is afraid of horses.
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Lisabtrucking Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:49 PM
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17. Just found another article with pictures.
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 03:50 PM by Lisabtrucking
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:52 PM
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18. well more than 1/2 in the u.s.a. don't want a cowboy! n/t
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Lisabtrucking Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 03:55 PM
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19. This site is great, it has picture's of bush protest from all over the
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