Debatable is it, feel free to convince me.
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Intelligent people care. But Scottish Nats only seem to care about them when it fits their agenda
Debatable is it, feel free to convince me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...right-now.html
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Intelligent people care. But Scottish Nats only seem to care about them when it fits their agenda
Haha, as I said, we think they're a bit simple... we do a lot of jokes on their expense.
Why does a Frieslander take a match to bed? So he can check if the light's really out. :P
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What astonishes me the most about The Netherlands is how tiny it is, though. I swear, you guys have no problems just getting into a train at a moment's notice to drive to the whole other part of the country for work or to meet friends for an afternoon and then drive back home on the same day. You use trains like we use the subway!
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Constitutions can change... or is that not the case in Spain?
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We use those jokes for the Belgians... they're also interchangable with blondes.
Belgians have jokes about us being cheap. My favourite one is "How was copper wire invented? Two Dutchmen pulling on a penny"
Yes, that's easy to forget when you're Dutch though... Had friends over from Australia a while ago, and they asked if Amsterdam was far from where I lived. I was like "yea.. it's like an hour by train". They gave me some weird looks.What astonishes me the most about The Netherlands is how tiny it is, though. I swear, you guys have no problems just getting into a train at a moment's notice to drive to the whole other part of the country for work or to meet friends for an afternoon and then drive back home on the same day. You use trains like we use the subway!
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Everyone kept saying MoP was shit, but it started at 10M subs. It's big loss was by months 4-6 into MoP, the total loss across those 6 months was only 1.7M compared to WoD losing 2.9M in HALF THE FUCKING TIME. 3 months passed and WoD loses 2.9M players. This is not due to "MMOs dying", but because Warlords of Draenor is a garbage expansion. Cata also lost 2.9M subs across the entire expansion. MoP lost 3.2M across the entire expansion. WoD lost 4.6 Million 7 months after it launched!
I have the sneaking suspicion that you'll never be convinced, no matter what I say. Fraser Nelson is a moron however (his recent antics merely confirm this) and the entire article is a) opinion and b) gish gallop. Independence wasn't based solely around oil (which is recovering btw), there's more to the Scottish economy than that, and while the price would have meant some tough decisions, he's factually incorrect about Scotland's ability to borrow and what their rating might be. Here's a quote from the report in case you cba reading it;
His article is trash.Even excluding North Sea output and calculating per capita GDP only by looking at onshore income, Scotland would qualify for our highest economic assessment. Higher GDP percapita, in our view, gives a country a broader potential tax and funding base to draw from, which supports creditworthiness.
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So let me get this straight. You get invited to a house, you go there and trash talk & what not, then you say you'll leave.
And when you are asked how long before you actually leave, you expect to take your own sweet fucking time...!!!!
I understand EU/EEA is not perfect and some policies, i.e, benefits are exploited massively. Then change the system!!!!!! but the leave vote is worse than digging ones own grave. It is preparing a grave for generations to follow.
It'll work or we'll stop caring.
If it does work, each of the parties involved will craft their own mythos.
-The north saved the south, hurrah!
-The south survived despite the north onslaught, yay!.
If it doesn't, the process is still marginally beneficial to the lending states, so we'll continue doing it. We can start planing on making it a festivity: it's year 2120, and the EU prepares to celebrate Greece's 50th bailout.
But, at some point down the line, we'll need to stop moralizing about it. Because neither are Germans are mischievous villains, not are the southern states lazy fucks.
No, not in the way I mean anyway.
The young should be out on the streets protesting day after day after day for weeks on end across every major city and town. And if the powers that be try to clear them out they should riot, every single time those powers that be try.
Its the only way the boomers who run the UK will pay the slightest bit of attention to the needs of the young who they are screwing over.
well the three trillion claim is immediately debunkable as nonsense, Scotland is not nearly important enough for that much money.
Second, Scotland currently breaks even - In short, while the spending would have to go away, the fiscal side of it would be rather similar.
Although this of course ignores the current economy, and how it might change following a departure from the union.
Ideologues dont care about reality? Oh my what a shocker.Intelligent people care. But Scottish Nats only seem to care about them when it fits their agenda
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There is no issue with crowding out, that would only apply if there was a shortage of economic resources such that the governmental sector was taking them away from the private sector. Crowding them out as you say.
Given the absurd levels of unemployment and underemployment across Europe (workers are your basic economic resource which all others derive from) there is absolutely no issue whatsoever with the availability of economic resources.
Rather what is needed is large scale fiscal expansion across the northern European block with a particular focus on Germany. Workers need substantial pay rises to make up for the two to three decades where wage growth was suppressed and kept lower than productivity growth. That would in turn raise consumption in those nations rebalancing them away from running such huge trade surpluses which is exporting deflation across the rest of Europe with such ruinous effects.
The losers from this would be the corporate sector which would see lower profits and executive pay, and the richest members of those societies which have taken for themselves the pay rises that could have been and didn't happen.
The overall boost to consumption would also correct the trade imbalances between Germany and southern Europe as southern Europe would now be competitive on unit labor costs. That in turn would fix their unemployment problems as being competitive with Germany and with German consumption rising they could start exporting to Germany to meet its increased demand.
All that increase in economic activity would then lead to higher tax revenues across the board fixing the governmental debt crisis's are seeing (though it is likely some debt forgiveness would be needed too).
Now none of what I have said here is surprising to economists. They know that this is what needs to happen (at least in the short term in the long term there needs to be fiscal transfers between regions with a proper central government). But Germany simply does not want to do this. Its elites would have to give up the gains they have made by impoverishing their own citizens by convincing them its a good thing (Germans are proud of their nations trade surplus which is mind boggingly stupid since its basically the same as saying we are screwing you over by paying you less than you are worth)