[np] Euro crisis

[David Morris]

Right.  Well I thought the joke might offend some...

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> On 29.09.2011 15:16, David Morris wrote:
>>
>> http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/09/28/331314/european-debt-crisis-primer/
>>
>
> You didn't pass on the joke at the end!
>
> "One possible idea would be for Greece, Spain, and Italy to all default on
> their debts followed by a German effort to conquer those countries in order
> to recoup losses. Then the United States would need to go to war to stave
> off German domination of Europe which, as we know from the 1940-45
> experience, would stimulate the U.S. economy."
>
> Though this one is not particularly good, I think that we need jokes like
> that these days.