You've come a long way, Baba!

[muckefuck]

So can someone explain to me why Turkey was successful where France, Italy, and Greece have been been failing miserably and Germany is making at best mediocre progress? And while the French government worked to prevent the Italians from buying out a utility company and has vociferously opposed a takeover that doesn't even involve a French company, the goddamn National Bank of Greece buys a Turkish bank outright and there's not even a whimper of protest? Am I the only one who finds it ironic that an Islamist party is displaying more liberal economic credentials than mainstream European conservative administrations?

If that's the effect joining the EU has on your economic policy, perhaps the Turks would be better off staying out of it.

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Yeah, I agree. France is messed up and has serious issues. I mean, not compared to say, Sudan, but they really need to get their act together. They are highly protectionistic in a way that is likely to hurt them long term and has them treating other countries quite unfairly.


Just because I like numbers even when they are just polls (LOL), I recently ran across this quote:
"In another startling poll, however, whereas 71% of Americans, 66% of the British and 65% of Germans agreed that the free market was the best system available, the number in France was just 36%. The French seem to be uniquely hostile to the capitalist system that has made them the world's fifth richest country and generated so many first-rate French companies."