Re: [OT] Lazy Inefficient European Socialist Losers?

From: Rene Tschaggelar (none_at_none.net)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:22:25 +0200

This is a onesided view. Consider different goverments that
have to share money and you'll find that some pay and some
others receive. Further consider workers unions in different
countries. All they fight for is to lower the weekly working
time and at the same time expect maximum wages.
Meanwhile the jobs are transferred to lower wage countries
in Eastern Europe. Is there something you don't understand
or have difficulties with ? It appears pretty normal to me.

Rene 

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Scott Stephens wrote:
> Thanks to Stu at misc.survivalism;
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/48zy9
> 
>> The grass is not greener Bruce Bartlett (archive)
>>
>> August 10, 2004 | Print | Send
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>> Europeans are frustrated. They have been behind the United States
>> economically for years and thought this was due to lack of economic
>> integration. So they created the European Union, with a common
>> currency and virtually free mobility of goods, capital and labor
>> throughout the continent. Yet Europe continues to lag.
>>
>> A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the United
>> States with real gross domestic product per person in 2003 of $34,960
>> (in 1999 dollars). This is well above every European country. The
>> most productive European country, Norway, has a per capita GDP of
>> just $30,882 (converted using purchasing power parity exchange
>> rates). The major countries of Europe are even further behind: United
>> Kingdom ($26,039), France ($25,578), Italy ($24,894) and Germany
>> ($24,813).
>>
>> In other words, Europeans produce no more per year than Americans did
>> 20 years ago. And they are not catching up. According to the Bank for
>> International Settlements in Switzerland, the productivity gap
>> between the United States and Europe is actually widening. In the
>> Euro area as a whole, workers were 86 percent as productive as
>> American workers in 1995. In 2003, this fell to 84 percent.
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