No shit!Originally Posted by Origanalist
Don't you wish teh gubmint was as stingy with the free money as RPF's?
No shit!Don't you wish teh gubmint was as stingy with the free money as RPF's?
If Catalonia gains independance, Spain will face the ugly task of asking the ECB for even more money after 20% of its GDP got up and walked out. These are things they should have considered before making a deal with the devil, who goes by the name EU over there.
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They could survive even if they lost 20% of GDP, the problem is that Catalunya gives over 8% of its GDP in taxes to other regions that it doesn't see back, it amounts to more than $21 billion per year. THAT would crush Spain.
I wish only the best for them.
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If Catalonia can secede from Spain... We can secede from the union too!
If it does pass, can the Catalans ethnically cleanse all of the non-Catalans? It is a Catalan state isn't it?
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It is, and I would hate to see a great thing get ugly. I don't really think that is what this is about, but it's not exactly unheard of is it?
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Yes, it seems to be the rule rather than the exception. Often, the first thing that people decide to do with their new found separatism is to attack other groups. Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Kashmir and portions of the ex-Soviet Union are all examples. Of course that strife may be just as much by design (by outside forces) as by human nature. Hopefully violence will not occur in Catalonia for any reason.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Corporate-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and we must reject those who spread fear." - B4L update of FDR
"The Ministry of Truth can turn on a dime, and the fury of the ignorant masses can be redirected at will." - B4L
"Marxists become Fascists the minute they become rich, yet they retain the Marxist rhetoric." - B4L
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
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Perhaps it is time for us to pay homage to Catalonia.
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Secession makes the other EU states nervous because they have their own regions that could take it up. Bretony and Corsica in France, the Po region of Italy, Flanders in Belgium.
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