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Ha, I always thought it was a bit humurous finding the exed out trash sticker.
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Wouldn't it be nice if for Xmas Season Fender had a buy one get one free promotion? i.e.: buy a Highway One - Get a Hwy One free. Wouldn't that be great and drive sales thru the roof - thus helping the economy too. :)
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What does EU mean? All these damn abbreviations drive me nuts. I think there are too many in the world.


Forget about EU.... I was driving today and someone shouted FU to me...
any idea what that's about ?? :shock:
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soggycrow wrote:
thewood1987 wrote:
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The EU was the vision of Jean Monnet, an appointed official of the French government immediately after WWII. It was seen as a means to rehabilitate Europe, and especially Germany, so as to avoid a repeat of the collapse after WWI that had led to the second world war. It was originally called the European Coal and Steel Community, a sort of free trade zone. It wasn't about a common currency. That came much later.


It would be ignorant to assume that the currency change was not planned. Soon we may all share the same currency, which I am not opposed to, but if you allow the unification of all resources, economies, and power to one group, (UN), you are asking for trouble. 90% of us run around thinking we know what we are talking about, while the truth is, a sickly, communist education system has polluted our thoughts so thoroughly that our ignorance is now our worst enemy.

I hate ruining the mellow atmosphere here with political jargon, but sometimes I just can't help myself.

357, do a little bit of research next time! Although mediocrity is praised in today's society, try to break out of the mold! :wink:


Perhaps you should do a little research yourself so that you can see where the EU came from. I recommend Desmond Dinan's "Ever Closer Union," the definitive English language history of the EU. Professor Dinan is a Jean Monnet Professor of European History at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia. He's the man.


I learned about a European union (small "u") way back in grade school in the 1950s though I don't recall any particular names. It was presented to us (as kids) in simplified format and with the idea that such a union might lessen the endless string of wars between European nations.

From a purely American viewpoint, the presentation was that this could be a good thing because we'd been involved in two European wars in just a half century. Further, the weapons and means of delivering them by the 50s prevented America from going back into blissful isolation as in the 1920s.

(For a variety of reasons, some commercial, mostly just world interest, I have far more than my 2nd grade knowledge of the EU these days :)

But at any rate, anyone who went to my grade school knew about the concept back in the 50s. Now add the US states forming a (still imperfect) union and all the still-existant "sovereignty" issues and it might form a very crude idea of the debate over there, all assuming you don't want to research it in depth.

As to any North American union ... seems mostly far right rhetoric to me if you push it beyond trade restriction waivers. But then again, given the current state of the US economy and what many employers want to pay here ... who knows!
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357mag wrote:
What does EU mean?


Good Lord!!!

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No Ceri!!! Only if it has the OU :!: That means it has answered to 'a higher authority" :roll:

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