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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on March 29, 2009, 06:33:03 AM
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In red on Drudge, with the headline, Merkel Stops 'Global New Deal.' It would seem that some of the Euroweenies aren't ready to follow the Obamessiah over the cliff . . .
Brown snubbed over tax
Germans wreck ‘global new deal’
Jonathan Oliver and Bojan Pancevski
GORDON BROWN’S carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night led the assault on the prime minister’s “global new deal†for a $2 trillion-plus fiscal stimulus to end the recession.
“I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more money,†she said.
The Spanish finance minister, Pedro Solbes, also dismissed new cash being pledged at Thursday’s London summit.
“In these conditions I and the rest of my colleagues from the eurozone believe there is no room for new fiscal stimulus plans,†he said.
The rest of the piece is at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article5993184.ece
Someone in the Comments section at the bottom notes, "EVERY comment is anti-governmnet spending. That in of itself is an interesting observation." People are coming to their senses. Bring on "The Summer of Hell!" Global tea parties!