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Originally Posted by flacaltenn
Fahreed Zahkaria did a segment on his Sunday Show that just blew my mind. Particularly because the "mainstream" has managed to ignore this story for this long.
Cultural divisions and basic political indecision has held Belgium "headless" for 8 months. No central govt has been seated since the election. Life goes on almost perfectly.. Maybe we wouldn't miss Congress as much as they think...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...t-2213128.html
Gee.. Maybe we SHOULD BE more like Europe after all...
They are having PARTIES and camp-outs instead of freakin out. Even with serious talk of dividing the country along French/Dutch lines.. Here's a cute byproduct of the stand-off -- a website created especially for the crisis..
http://belgiq.eu/ |
Two things,
If congress went away we would indeed be better off and this country is headed for a social divide and English should become the national language to help forestall this.