I have long thought the European Union a softer, modern-day inheritor of the Soviet Union, and other fallen empires of the old continent, in its need to dictate across borders. It's good to see that someone with quite a bit more influence shares my view. "Not so long ago, in our part of Europe we lived in a political system that permitted no alternatives and therefore also no parliamentary opposition," Vaclav Klaus, the courageous president of the Czech Republic, told the EU parliament today. "We learned the bitter lesson that with no opposition, there is no freedom." In their ambitions to rule the continent, France and Germany have traded soldiers for bureaucrats with great success.

Soliders will, again, soon follow.

Unlike the EU, you people in the U.S. are just a bunch of racist cowards who are bitter clingers and need your souls healed!

Is there a chance we can join the EU? I think we'd be better of because the dow was at 13,000 in August and since the election of The One, it's been dropping like a rock. 2,000 points in the 30 days since he's taken office and this week the biggest drop in 130 years.

How's that Hope and Change working out for everybody!!?

Yes, an under Bush we saw Dow drop from 13,366 in Jan. 08 all the way down to 7949 the day Obama was inaugurated. It plummeted all the way down to 7552 on Nov. 20 under Dubya's watch. So, can we dispense with the johnny-on-note-Obama obsession already?

HaHaHa!!!

Eric, I knew that would be the response from you or Wilds.

Hate to clue you pal, but your hated GW has been out of office, really, since 11/4 and you still don't expect the corrupt, socialist/marxist used car salesman to take any responsibility for the economy, or anything else for that matter, when it's clear that every policy he has pushed while either in the "Office of the President Elect" or as the official holder of the Office of the President has been a disaster. And everytime he or his handlers open their mouths, the market tanks and more people are in fear of what might happen next!!

You're obviously a smart guy, but you're not smart enough to know when you're wrong.

Dear Obama and your minions:

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUTTT UPPPP!!!!!

Thank you.

Maybe if these guys take a few days off, the market will stabilize. At least until the next time they start up again.

Obama hosting a Fiscal Responsibility Summit? That's like a prostitute hosting an abstinence conference.

ASDF,

Wrong about what? The fact is that I object every bit as much as you due to Obama's policies, and believe they will be devastating to the economy. And it is clear that Wall Street is reacting very unfavorably to every decision and even voiced brainstorm of the present government. But the fundamental dire straits of the current economy run much deeper and go much further back than that.

I also think it undermines one's argument to be so obsessed with Obama that you start claiming he is the root of all our present evils, when he is only adding on to the ill situation he very much inherited. Even with the centralized power the Federal government has amassed over the years, the economy still turns more like an aircraft carrier than a snow board. That is *slowly.* We are heading the direction we are because of years of ill-begotten policies and massive deficit spending that triggered perhaps unprecedented malinvestment that the market is only now beginning to try and correct. (The fundamental problem with Obama's agenda, like Bush's in late 2008, is it won't allow that correction to occur and is pouring gas on a fire.) Even on the positive side, changes in tax and spending policy typically don't fully materialize in the economy's performance for 18 months or so. This is clear, unless you want to blame the 1982 recession on Reagan. But that would be to blame the medicine for the disease.

So, it is self-defeating to argue against Obama's policies and pretend that we are at where we are at because of him, when everyone and their sisters are painfully aware that this started well before his arrival at power. As I keep saying, hooray to the GOPers in Congress who have so far not gone along with Obama. But they will only gain credibility -- and those like you on the outside will finally stop looking silly -- when they start to place blame where it belongs, repudiating Bush and very often themselves at the same time they castigate Obama for doing pretty much the same exact thing that got us in this mess in the first place. Pluck the beam from their own eyes first, as Christ instructed.