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Old 02-12-2011, 12:14   #239
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Re: You vill do as ve say!

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15997784

The Germans trying to impose financial discipline? That'll go down well I'm sure. I wonder what they'll do if the other states don't want their financial discipline...
This is the only way a single currency can work. It's how it works in the USA; some states are richer, some are poorer, and they have their own limited ability to set and collect local taxes, but there are rules and fiscal transfers to keep a unified US economy from collapsing.

The logic is inescapable - they either abandon the Euro, or watch it collapse, or else put in place the measures required to operate it properly.

Just be thankful Bliar never got his way or else we'd be getting sucked into this now too.
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