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In reply to the discussion: Germany is in the wrong, very wrong, in Europe, and must be corrected. Further information: [View all]FarCenter
(19,429 posts)38. There are several candidates for breakup
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the United States are all candidates for breakup.
India, in particular, is a case of being cobbled together from numerous principalities, languages, ethnic groups. I think that the only way it stays together is that it is so disorganized that the component groups do not feel too oppressed.
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Germany is in the wrong, very wrong, in Europe, and must be corrected. Further information: [View all]
Ghost Dog
May 2012
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Here's an example of a move in the right direction from Germany, though: German pay deal offers euro
Ghost Dog
May 2012
#1
Greece needs to give back the money or take it's medicine. The EU needs more central power over
RB TexLa
May 2012
#4
German workers should receive higher wages and pay higher prices for consumer goods
Ghost Dog
May 2012
#9
WTF???? On what do you think the Greeks were spending those Euros? Hint, it wasn't
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#10
I thought that it was the British banks that led the financing of the Spanish real estate boom?
FarCenter
May 2012
#31
The money doesn't go to the people. Where do you think all these bailouts are going?
sabrina 1
May 2012
#25
Who said anything about the German people contributing their tax money to prop up the system?
sabrina 1
May 2012
#27
I would agree with you IF you had just said that the Greeks need to increase taxes on those who
jwirr
May 2012
#18
I wondered how long it would be before the old 'blame the victims' meme would show up.
sabrina 1
May 2012
#23
Germany is in the wrong . . . for providing all this money others have demanded of them
4th law of robotics
May 2012
#15
The EU itself is a fundamentally misguided idea that flies in the face of historical trends.
FarCenter
May 2012
#28
The Euro zone should never have included countries with cooked books and huge deficits
DFW
May 2012
#21
Seems to me both the Germans and Greeks should be going after Josef Ackermann from Deutsche Bank
suffragette
May 2012
#34