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Old 01-27-2015, 05:51 PM
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We DON'T want the Euro to fold. For starters it'll almost certainly crash the world economy, at least a major recession maybe worse.

It was designed to force a political union from the start. Our fearless betters, um, leaders decided after ww2 that Europe needed integrating to stop the incessant and deadly wars. They thought if they could sell a monetary union a political union would be necessary to keep it, and that the economic benefits of the monetary union would convince people to agree to the political union. Who doesn't want a new Rome?

Seriously, a unified Europe is probably in Europes' best interest and certainly in ours. Greece has to come to grips with the fact TNSTAAFL no matter what the commies say. Or become a second world country or worse, it really is up to them.

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