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Europe's Lack of Economic Understanding

At least Spain and Germany have electrified high-speed rail. They'll still be able to travel around while we in the US won't be able to afford gasoline even when it drops to 25 cents a gallon. Does anyone out there remember "Dallas", specifically the character, Cliff Barnes? During his 8 years Bush has been likened to Hitler, JR and Cheney with Darth Vader. But he always seem to me to be the hapless the Cliff Barnes of "Dallas", trying to be a JR , trying all kinds of schemes that in the end never worked. The world has been led by a Cliff Barnes and now we are all going to pay, but I would not be too hard on the Europeans. They never understood our Cliff Barnes propensities over on this side of the pond but they were still willing to tax themselves to pay for infrastructure investments and health care.