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@LeeAndersonMP_ it doesn't matter what you say its all rubbish coming out of your gob

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

What happens when Europeans find out how poor they are? The Europoor?

Nothing. That’s what happens.

Americans ring the White House every morning to ask what the GDP is today, the way the rest of us check the weather. The trouble is that GDP is what you get when you stick Jeff Bezos and a man sleeping in a Walmart car park into a spreadsheet and take the average. It tells you the country is rich. It does not tell you that a hundred million people inside it are quietly not.
GDP measures how much money sloshes around. It does not measure whether any of it ever reaches you, or what sort of life you get to live once it does.

It also, rather conveniently, doesn’t mention the bill. Because the whole American miracle is being run on a credit card that has been on fire since the Reagan administration. The federal government owes nearly forty trillion dollars. The households owe another eighteen. Car loans, student loans, medical debt, a mortgage the size of a small principality, and a Visa bill that arrives in an envelope you have to open with tongs.

This is the country lecturing the rest of us about prosperity. This is a man pulling up to valet parking in a leased Lamborghini and calling himself rich because nobody at the table has yet asked to see his bank statement.

Run any household like that and the bailiffs would be through the door by Thursday. Run a country like that and apparently you get to be on the cover of The Economist.

And this is where the whole sermon falls apart. Because on every single thing that actually makes a life worth getting out of bed for, Europe wins. Not by a bit. By a humiliating distance. The food. The streets. The holidays. The pavements you can walk on without being flattened by a Dodge the size of a small barn. The cities built before the invention of the strip mall. The Tuesday afternoon that contains an actual lunch, rather than a protein bar eaten standing up over a keyboard. The summer that contains an actual summer.

Pick any parameter that matters to a human being who is alive and would like to remain so in reasonable spirits, and Europe is ahead. Often by a mile. Sometimes by an ocean.

So no. Europeans are not about to find out how poor they are. We found out years ago, had a long hard look at the alternative, the debt, the diabetes, the drive-thru funerals, and decided we’d really rather not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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@HazelLiaqa4848 ithasent happend yet your biggest acomplishment will happen when you die.

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@Jenny_1884 ADHD was often referred to as Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MBD) starting in the 1960s. Before that, early descriptions even referred to it as Minimal Brain Damage. get your facts right

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@Nigel_Farage no we do not we dont want nazies in charge. p.s hows the bins

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@MrWhiplash_ when you going to jail you orange ape. how is the epstein network i mean the trump network working out for ya. dumb ass

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@TRobinsonNewEra dude use your real name and also come to me we have a date you white supremacist

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@mark_slapinski I wouldn't be surprised Eric is not the brightest of the bunch

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@TheOnlyEsta being married it an ape

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@ronaldo124441 if trump stands for what america is then your no hair better then the nazies

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@Sassafrass_84 go away

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@PMF31763 @MAGAVoice You guys are so said I can't wait for you all to be with your favorite orange leader infront of a firing squad.

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@KenK91568759 @mjfree Becouse your to blind to do some reascher yourself man for god sake. Grow up or go back to school.

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@MAGAVoice So what's the benefit for him he not American and he exploits people to get his money. People are idiots listening to that racist

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@KenK91568759 @mjfree God you are so dumb . So dumb that no matter how far I dumb it down for you you still do t understand. My advice to you. Go back to sleep. And ask your mommy if you can suck on her tatties again
Geez dude

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@KenK91568759 @mjfree Haha you are really dumb arnt you. You cannot do anything with out permission period. But hey Americans are not the brightest aren't you.

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@harryjsisson Oh did he die.... yes yes.... oh no was a sleep shame.

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@axelvasaglobal No and nether does trump. Its trump first then the rest

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@EricLDaugh Tou mean he signed a paper to fill his own pockets