The news media are all agush over the heroes welcome Obama is getting in Europe, as he goes from court to court, EU meeting to G20 summit to an audience with the queen of England. As Google News puts it: “Stop after stop, crowds are thronging, leaders gushing, headlines blaring. Even a roomful of foreign reporters applauded after President Barack Obama’s London news conference.”
Well, yeah. Of course. This guy is handing out enormous sums of money, not just to American interests and businesses but also to European interests and businesses. You damn right they’re cheering him. I’d cheer him too if he handed me a billion bucks or so. Hey, I’d even settle for a few million.
Our European allies with the sole exception of England have always been fair weather friends, and nothing is different now. As long as America gives them money, they love us. But when we cut off the flow of dollars, suddenly they spit on us. Suddenly America is pariah.
Wait until the money runs out, or when our dollar collapses from inflation, or we look like we’re a has-been nation. That’s the time to count our friends, not now when we’re pouring cash into collapsing foreign economies.
I have to say that, living in one of the sleepier English shire counties (Lincolnshire) I successfully managed to avoid seeing, hearing or referring to Mr Obiwama’s visit at all. Don’t take offence – I avoid my own dear politicians just as effectively.
Always makes me hoot with apoplectic laughter when I do hear governments wobbling on about giving millions/billions/thousands of millions to this, that and those. You’d think that governments had little savings accounts stashed away full of wads of cash. IT’S JUST FUNNY MONEY. IT’S NOT REAL! There’s no work-effort or value behind any of this crap money the USA and UK (and others) are printing! It’s all but meaningless and it’s hugely dangerous!
Crossing through the numeral “10″ on ten bucks (or ten quid) and writing “20″ in thick black felt-tip pen does not make it so Mr President, Mr Prime Minister, Mr Head of the Bank of Finanicial Dropped Bollocks!
p.s., just to check – we in the UK only ever “elect” joke Prime Ministers (it’s a local tradition). You guys have the same in-house running joke with Presidents too, don’t you? I mean, we’re none of us serious, surely?