Fwd: Erratic thoughts from Greece

[Ian Livingston]

Yeah, we agree, David.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:02 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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