The point of most of these talks (with the exception of the one where they want to know what the fuck is going to happen in the UK now) are for the EU and how to deal with the member that's doing something stupid. Is it really that unfathomable to discuss their unified stance without the one that shits on that union?
In the US, the vast majority of the $300 billion spent on infrastructure per year comes from state and local taxes and is decided by State and Local government. Federal dollars isn't a large percentage of it at all. The whole debate about Federal Tax dollars going to infrastructure has always been mostly bullshit, because that never has, and never will be the source of the funds.
And this makes perfect sense when you think about it. People living in Denver should, generally speaking, pay for Denver's infrastructure, not people from Pittsburgh. The people living there know the need. They know what it needs to be spent on.
So much of the national level infrastructure talk really is about invoking the spirit of the New Deal-era / Tennessee Valley Authority in that the federal government can directly funnel money to generate a jobs programs. It can to a degree, but advances technology and automation have radically changed the reality of that.
More idiocy from the UK electorate;
And an excellent response.Originally Posted by An Anonymous Voter
Originally Posted by Therese Coffey, Deputy Leader of the Commons
Despite no formal submission to leave? And I don't want to make it all about us, but I am guessing the main topic of discussion is going to be about Brexit and the very immediate future if they exit. Would make sense to have the country at the very center of the conversation to at least be present.
It just smacks of the larger nations wanting an opportunity to bully and coerce the smaller nations on how they want proceedings with Britain to go.
I just hope we can keep Scotland as part of the union. Free university education, prescriptions, and eye care were not enough...I am voting to give them free haggis and Irn bru, and also free houses.
We'll be in the negotiations if Article 50 is ever invoked. Until then, it only seems fair for them to discuss how to continue collectively without us given the fact we just told them we're on our way out.
I know you're being passive aggressive here, but you know council housing exists right?
Much appreciated. Been on the Buckfast Cheeky Vimto all night, being Scottish is great!
I actually once accidently made this one with Strongbow Blackarrow and Buckfast a few years back and can attest that it doesn indeed "puts ya on your ear". Infact I woke up in the morning covered in vomit, probably need to up the constitution to more Scottish levels. Being from Blackpool that makes me like....half Glaswegian right?Originally Posted by Buckfast Cocktails
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Hypocrisy pure hypocrisy. In less than 24 hours:
France threatens to open the boarder and send all immigrants in Calais over. (despite saying in March they wouldn't)
Germany, France and Italy refuse to talk with Britain until article 50 is submitted.
European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker let Britain to submit article 50 in 48 hours.
Oh and the same time all of those leaders somberly admit the EU needs to change.
Like I've said here before I am actually in favor of the idea of the European Union, and if it takes something a monumental as Britain leaving to fix it then I have no regrets. If it lives to become better then I would happily vote to join should an opportunity arise in the distant future. But for now is a corrupt, convoluted, bureaucratic mess.
There's black pudding hiding above the sausage links, eggs probably under the mushrooms.
It was one guy and the French Government rebuked it pretty fast.
We'll be at the EU summit on Tuesday, there just won't be negotiations until article 50 is invoked.Germany, France and Italy refuse to talk with Britain until article 50 is submitted.
They've been saying that for a while (and reform has been ongoing) and there's every possibility that had Remain won, they would have still seen it as a wake-up call but held back during the campaign and build up so as not to influence member state's internal affairs.Oh and the same time all of those leaders somberly admit the EU needs to change.
No need for black pudding there is always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_pudding (we always called this fruit sausage, or fruit slice at home though, my dad used to keep us stocked up on it and sausage slice(the square one) as his work often took him up there)
Much like the UK, no?
That aside, exactly what did you think was going to happen? That the EU would be all smiles and rainbows about Britain threatening European integrity and risking a financial meltdown for funsies?
All this really proves is that the leaders of Europe proper have something that the UK government is sorely lacking; cajones. They're driving a hard bargain to force the UK to reconsider Brexit, or rather, to force Britain to admit that it was a political sham.
thats the thing about scotland. they want everything & more, but are not proud enough to push it through.
this old bollocks i keep hearing about pride in scotland, william wallace, robert the bruce & robert burns, is all a fairytale.
they had the chance to leave the united kingdom, but decided to stay. their greed took over from this so called pride.
greed as in, they didnt want to lose the security, english taxes gave them.
they really should wind their necks in up there, they had their chance & bottled it. it was the welsh & english who showed them what real pride is about.
pride in making your own decisions, not being told what to do by others. scotland, until they decide to have proper independence, will always be at englands beck & call.