26 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  2. Traveling in Euroland is much easier since the single Euro currency.
    Having German as the common language will also make travel easier.

  3. Did not read the article. The way the headline is written, is, how to attack those that are doing and working their damnest hard to produce to trade to do their best at what they do.
    Now they become target of envy of those that were on the take for the longest time.
    It is those that screwed their countries that are now blaming Germans for their self inflicted plight.
    Those other governments lived grossly off of other people’s money, guess who’s?
    Being a German must really suck, you are bad if you are bad, you are bad. You are doing good, you surely must be worse.

  4. Today vee buy zer bonds, tomorrow ze vorld..!
    Ach, but vee are only speaking Deutschmarks err “Euro-dollars”.
    Zis iss “Re-Merkel-ble” nicht war?
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  5. I thought it was an interesting result from the Merkle Sarkozy meeting, that France and Germany would use this “opportunity” to gather up more power.
    Typical sleazy scumbag move, you ask me. No interest in fixing things, positive distaste for the sovereignty of the individual (not to mention personal responsibility), very eager to set themselves up as modern Lords of the Manse.
    There’s going to be a war. Can you taste it?

  6. The Euros can only hope that the Germans want to take over! All I hear is that the Greeks are doing business as usual. When government employs over 50% of the people what else can be expected.
    Wait a minute, that’s where we’re headed! ):

  8. No, Phantom, there won’t be a war. It’s already over, and the rest of the European nations lost.
    When the Euro was created, its weakness was a common currency without a common fiscal policy. This was dealt with by putting in place binding rules on countries with respect to their debt and deficits. Only Germany abided by these rules, and with the exception of a couple of East Bloc late entries is the only one that would fully qualify as a Euro currency nation today. This was precisely the outcome that Margaret Thatcher foresaw.
    There won’t be a war because the bankrupt nations can’t afford it. There’s nothing sleazy about it at all. Of course the Germans are going to have to have power if they are going to be held responsible for fixing everything.
    ct, you are quite right about whether or not the Germans want it. This is a conversation that the German government and people have not yet had. And it’s going to make a lot of other nations rather nervous when it does happen. And until it happens, German taxpayers are increasingly going to say, “What’s in this for me? Why should I bail out spendthrift Greeks?”
    But that dialogue is coming.

  10. I remember being told as a kid that Germans do things in threes, because though it may not work the first two times, it’ll probably work the third…Germans being who they are.

  11. Why do I keep picturing a germanic Hannibal Schmidt with a cigar in his mouth saying “I just love it ven a plan comes togezer”

  12. Fascinating to look at it in such a way, but I think Lev has the nuts & bolts of it.
    That said, it’s one thing to have your sovereignty taken from you, and another to happily sign it away.
    I think Dennis Millar said “I want to help the helpless, not the clueless”.

  13. Fourth time lucky?
    Perhaps a woman will have better luck than three men before her.
    POD free advice this time … don’t invade Russia.

  16. “If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..”
    — Joseph Goebbels
    Whatever, just don’t let the door hit you on your way out. Bye

  17. Hmph. Just the general working-out of the inevitable.
    After WWII, America (metaphorically) took the Germans and Japanese to the top of a hill. There, looking over the countryside, we said to them, “Hey, guys, you tried to conquer the world. Now, in and of itself that’s not a bad thing, in fact it shows commendable ambition and initiative. It’s the method you’ve got wrong — all that hurting people and breaking things. It’s not necessary, and it makes the neighbors sore. You’re bright guys. Go home, work hard, get rich, and buy the f*ing place. Hey, it works for us!”
    Regards,
    Ric

  18. Is there some sort of pathological fear of the Germans?
    We won the war and now the Germans are faring better than the rest of socialist, whiny Europe.
    That’s the news.

  19. Osumashi Kinyobe
    Therefore, it’s obvious what everyone else has to do if they want to be successful countries.
    Go to war with America and lose.

  20. Flashback:
    Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) warned France: Do not provoke Germany.
    Heine’s words were ignored.
    “When you hear the crash and the clashing of arms, watch out, you neighbor children, you French, and don’t meddle in what we are doing at home in Germany. It might cost you dearly. Take care not to fan the fire; take care not to put it out. You could easily burn your fingers in the flames.”
    “The Germans are in general more vindictive than the Latin peoples. The reason is that they are idealists even in their hatred. We do not hate each other, as you French do, because of external things, perhaps because of wounded vanity, perhaps on account of an epigram or a visiting-card to which there was no response, — no, we hate in our enemies the most profound, most basic characteristic they have, their thought. You French are frivolous and superficial in hatred as well as in love. We Germans hate thoroughly, permanently; too honest and also too inept to avenge ourselves with speedy perfidy, we hate until our dying breath.”
    http://www.nthuleen.com/papers/141papereng.html
    Germany is Hermann the Warrior; not just a Teddy bear. Beware.

  21. Pro 22:7 Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender.
    Pro 22:26 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else.
    Pro 22:27 If you can’t pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you.
    Just goes to show you don’t need a war to create an Empire. Making debtors of others is less messy plus even less expensive.
    France is just discovering this. Britian will later.
    JMO

  23. This is not so much conquering Europe, as Europe handing the keys to Germany and begging them to take over. Amazing what a small amount of administrative and fiscal competence can do for a country.

  25. In Germany as in much of Europe English is a mandatory second language taught in schools.
    Germans have no trouble with English Language …. which makes them one step better in that regard than certain Canadian Provinces…………..
    As for the current version of German governance … Merkel is still tied at the pelvis to the green/commies …. it is only the adults of the German financial and manufacturing sectors that are keeping the nation from being France.
    Cheers from McGuinty land………….

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