Fwd: Erratic thoughts from Greece

[David Morris]

There was a war (Civil) that settled the issue.  It was further settled by
the establishment of a federal income tax, and all other federal taxes that
collects from and redistributes back to the States.  It's the money and
federal law that unify the US states, not the culture so much (I misspoke
earlier).  If the EU had centralized taxation and redistribution, the whole
Greece thing would be moot.

David Morris

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> The EU can't have a US-like unified currency/economy because its
> culture will never be that unified.<
>
> >THIS is doubtlessly correct.
>
> Yes, I agree, except for the suggestion that the reason the US seems
> unified is that we are so. The real reason the states of the US agree to
> taxation and such is that the people within those states will never be
> unified. European states have their several cultures, whereas "American
> culture" breaks apart quickly on inspection. You can't confuse Berliners
> with Parisians, but, without orientation, you wouldn't know a Washingtonian
> from an Arizonan. Californians are from China, Mexico, Arkansas, Germany,
> Pakistan, etc., and the same is true in Minnesota, Texas, and Maryland. The
> old WASP culture has decayed into desperate narcissism of the sort that
> rejects everything not "me." The EU may never be unified, but neither will
> Louisiana, Oregon, or Maine. Our self-centered anarchy renders us readily
> ruled. That's why we are (or seem) unified.
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 20.02.2015 05:33, David Morris wrote:
>>
>> > The EU can't have a US-like unified currency/economy because its
>> culture will never be that unified.<
>>
>> THIS is doubtlessly correct.
>>
>>
>>
>
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