From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:429b6a33$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >The EU will
>> > be composed of lazy fat socialists, so to speak.
>>
>> You don't understand the EU very well.  Sure, the older countries are far
>> more socialistic than ours, and it's hurting them a bit, but there's a
> whole
>> lot of "new" EU countries that are lean, mean, and
hungry -- they'll
> provide
>> the strength in the end and match that with the old countries stability,
> and
>> they will be  formidable competition.
>
> From what I've seen it will be organized in a way to make the lean mean
> newcomers with their small economies more socialist with forced socialist
> labor policies coming on line.  The old countries don't provide stability,
> just drag.
>
> Whether they will be formidable competition, I highly doubt it.  They
> don't
> have the guts for competition.

While I mostly don't give a rat's bottom about these arguments, I just
stumbled on this on a totally unrelated conversation and thought it might
be interesting, especially since you chose to use the word
"competition":
http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Global+Competitiveness+Progr
amme%5CGlobal+Competitiveness+Report .

Wopee for us, for what it's worth .


Antti Kurenniemi

>
> Gary
>
>

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