From: "Mark" 

"They are tired of the uncontrolled immigration of low skilled workers
and high taxes of the socialists."

Well, they're sure picking a bad time to come to the USA then!

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
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>I was just reading an article yesterday that indicated 17% unemployment in
>Germany and more and more of the most well educated and productive (ie job
>creating) people in Germany voting with their feet to emigrate to other
>countries such as Switzerland and the USA.  They are tired of the
>uncontrolled immigration of low skilled workers and high taxes of the
>socialists.
>
> 17% unemployment would cause riots in the USA, but the core old countries
> of the EU are doing great according to Phil.  Why didn't Germany just tell
> these best and brightest that are leaving all about how great the Euro is
> doing?  Why didn't that great news make them change their minds.
>
> Gary
>
> George Sherwood wrote:
>> Phil Payne wrote:
>>>>> http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?
id=11276§ionid=3510213
>>>> So now taken to the Iranian websites to get the most
Anti-American news
>>>> you can find?  What don't you look on their sites about
all the women
>>>> being thrown in jail for wanting a little freedom? Or the
problems over
>>>> the last few weeks in Northern Iran?
>>> I can hardly expect your sycophants to be unbiased.  By coincidence, it
>>> was
>>> an Iranian source but - believe it or not - I don't look at the domain
>>> name
>>> when picking a quote.  You can search Google News for yourself - there
>>> are
>>> many others with the same take on affairs.
>>
>> Of course, I can also find links like this:
>>
>>
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aguRviOo2DoI&refer=home
>>
>>  "The reports ``signify a clearing of the decks for a better
performance
>> going forward,'' said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at LaSalle Bank
>> in Chicago and president of the National Association for Business
>> Economics.
>>
>> The yield on the benchmark 10-year note increased 2 basis point from
>> yesterday to 4.89 percent at 5 p.m. in New York. The yield rose as much
>> as 4 basis points. The dollar pared its decline against the euro."
>>
>>
>> But they don't really prove you point. A point that you have been trying
>> to prove for about 4 years now.   The collapse of the US economy.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> And what does this say about the Euro area economy?  This week's
>>>> Economist predicts at 2.2% growth for the Euro area and this is with
>>>> over
>>>> 7% unemployment.
>>> I don't think that's at all bad considering several countries are still
>>> accomodating themselves to membership.  If you look at the figures for
>>> the
>>> "core" old countries, they're a little higher.
>>
>> Not much higher
>> Belgium 2.2
>> France  2.1
>> Germany 2.3
>> Italy   0.8
>> Spain   3.5
>>
>> It is actually some of the new countries that are showing higher growth.
>>
>> Poland  6.0
>> Czech Republic 5.3
>>
>>> The Euro has still managed 35% against the dollar in the last year.  And
>>> the
>>> cost of Iraq hasn't been factored in at all yet.  When that baby hits
>>> ...
>>>
>>
>> No one has yet shown me that this appreciation of the Euro is good for
>> the EU economy.  So this must be the big on now for you as others have
>> been in the past.
>>
>> George

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