First off the EU has quite a bit to tangle with before it becomes a strong opponent to the US.The aim of the EU has never been to become an opponent. The two main goals of the European Communities were peace and prosperity. Great leaps have been made since 1951 in this domain. The EU might be a competitor, but not an opponent, you must be mistaken.
You have to adjust to the pay scales across the members and countries. Some get paid more or less for the same jobThat is called competitiveness and that is the basic rule of every capitalist economy. Granted there may be some discrepencies, but so far it hasn't bothered anyone.
The UK is having issues with this right now and is leaning on leaving the EU.The UK pols has made the decision to favour employment instead of wages. So the unemployment rate is low (3%) but the wages have decreased a bit, and they were already lower than in the other countries. Plus the Pound is partly accountable for that phenomenon. Yes it is a problem for the EU. But the UK won't leave the EU. Nonsense. It is too deeply involved with the EU and the other countries and what's more it is currently gaining more from the EU than the EU gain from it (for instance, the fact that 12 countries share the same currency make it easier for UK to trade goods or services, etc)
Mainly technology based because its the fastest growing out there which most of it comes from the US China and Japan.Actually the biggest advantage so far (for the last 50 years) of the US hasn't been to create or invent new products and technologies, but to make products out of the other's inventions. China is not innovating that much.
You will most likly be buying the US's used equipment as many of you do now because they constantly come up with better and faster toys...I'm sorry to disappoint you but if you take planes for exemple, the European companies are almost on the same level of technologies. Apart from the F-117 A, which has no equivalent in Europe, many of the European planes are better than US's (Dassault's Rafale and Mirage are largely worth the F-15 and F-16, let alone the last Airbus)
You will not be able to block the US from a war because they will always find away to stay on top. They have been there a long time and will remain there.Actually, it has been the there since 1914, so that not that much. May I remind you that during the whole 19th century the UK was on top (and far above the others) and was caught up by both Germany and the US. May I remind you that the peak of power is always the beginning of the fall, even if it's a slow one. If you just checked some history books, you would learn that in the whole history, the most powerful country has alway fallen, and this fall has begun with a rise of the spending in defence/to defend one's frontiers, and that after a period of economic (trade,...) prosperity.
Would the EU even want to face a war with the US?What the hell is that supposed to mean ? 🙄
(Iraq is a different kind of war its Urban combat, innocent civilians in the way and terrorists)I don't why I'm not convinced by the "innocent civilians and the terrorists". May I remind you that Iraq has been no source of terrorism (at least until the US attacked) ?
The EU needs the US as much of the world out there.I'm sorry to have to teach you that, but the US needs the EU (+Norway and some others), Japan,... as well, and much more than you think.
Alot of people hate the states but they dont even begin to look at what they have provided for the world today. Computers, internet, clothing cars, planes, Apple pc's, Windows OS, medical and financial aid.Did you know that France once had it's own system, equivalent of the internet at the beginning ? It's just a shame the politicians here haven't made the decision to develop it that way. Instead we had for years a little network called 'Minitel', by which one could go to "sites" (if I may call them that way) with addresses,... Come on ! Don't mix everything up ! That called cultural influence...
The best thing to come out of the EU is being able to trade with the world and having open borders.Yup, and the EU has been the best at doing it for more than 30 years now
Sorry, it will never be a US......Why should it be ? There is no point in saying that. Once again, the EU has never sought to be like the US... 🙄
You people have absolutley no knowledge of the global economy.Oh, Thanks master (who by the way doesn't even know whom he is speaking to)
Name them?As Finti said. D'you think that with all the outsourcing that the US company are doing the US itself is still that "super-efficient" ?
Compete with all their products... Impossible. You need to come up with something to compete.. (ie:capita and R&D)Only if you can use them properly...ie what the American companies don't do. That is called wasting, not spending. Over the past few years the numbers of new drugs brought out by the American laboratories/pharmaceutical industry have severely dropped. An other example is Airbus's big progresses despite less capital than Boeing. That is called efficiency. But granted, a lack of innovations and of adaptation and efficiency is the major flaw of any too-big firm or country
Where is the EU solution? A BMW, Mercedes...Well, you're wrong, for all the European car manufacturers have worked hard on reducing pollution and the amount of gas/oil cars need, and even on finding new ways to fuel cars. A BMW 5-series still need just half of the amount of gas any SUV needs to work... What's more, for instance, BMW has developed the prototype of a car fuelled by (liquid) hydrogen,...
Sorry to say, the Mid East will dissolve when some country/nation on the face of the earth comes up with a better supply of energy.D'you have any idea of the time it will take before such kind of energy must be used in all vehicles ? Solutions to replace petroleum have been existing for a looong time. But few R&D work has been made because the big Gas exporting/selling firms (mostly American ones) have opposed it. So don't dream, it's not for tomorrow. Just the time the whole world suck the Middle East dry.
First would be the collapse of OPEC, whose strategy of limiting production to maximize price will have finally reached its limit.Why would it collapse when it no longer have any power (and this for more than 20 years now) ? The Opec has lost control of the market when new wells were discovered and used (Norway/UK) and mostly when the US decided it couldn't depend entirely on the Opec (Central American, Sovietic petroleums). So this Opec policy won't have any effect, like usual.
If Iraq busts its quota, then who in OPEC will give up 5 million barrels of production?Erm, not that much, but that's what Saudi Arabia has been doing all over the past years : reducing its production because the other and poorer countries couldn't afford to limit their own.
OPEC would die.It just doesn't need to. The Opec countries are powerless. Why would the Opec explode ?
This would lead to the second major consequence, which is a collapse in the price of oil to the 10-dollar range per barrel.Nonsense. The Opec is absolutely not controlling the prices. There is an current trend for high prices because the World keeps on consuming more (and it's partly speculative, for instance the weakness of US stocks).
Oh, and just a little thing to add. The dollar has been the official currency in oil trade because historically the US have been the most important consumer and the country that had all powers on the market (through it's firms Gulf, Chevron, Texaco, Exxon, Mobil,...). Plus obviously it was the dominant economy
FYI, Russia recently thought of using Euro for some products, for it exports more and more to the EU.
IM not going to quote everything you said cause Ill be here for hours. Ill note your biggest misconseption..
"quote" Actually the biggest advantage so far (for the last 50 years) of the US hasn't been to create or invent new products and technologies, but to make products out of the other's inventions. China is not innovating that much.
So the Windows OS isnt a very good invention, after all someone else came up with it. And the mouse your using? I guess that has nothing to do with innovation or creation. To name some more.. VCR's, computers, satellites, fiber optics, cell phones... Maybe Ill throw in a few wild cards. An ATM, barcodes, diet soda, microwaves. WHO IS AT THAT MAKES PRODUCTS OUT OF OTHERES INVENTIONS??? Thats going back on half the years youve stated....
You people have absolutley no knowledge of the global economy
"quote" Oh, Thanks master (who by the way doesn't even know whom he is speaking to)
Read the bit of what the US has invented over the past 50 years again and spreads across the global economy mate.
"quote" I'm sorry to disappoint you but if you take planes for exemple, the European companies are almost on the same level of technologies. Apart from the F-117 A, which has no equivalent in Europe, many of the European planes are better than US's (Dassault's Rafale and Mirage are largely worth the F-15 and F-16, let alone the last Airbus)
You compare an F16 and an F15 which has been around longer than the 117A. (Which I might ad was invented roughly 30 years ago and not shown to the world until the 1st Gulf war) You missed the F22 Raptor... Which can track, heat sink and shoot 7 Dassault's Rafale at once. Not even close in technology or even on the same playing field.
"quote"Actually, it has been the there since 1914, so that not that much. May I remind you that during the whole 19th century the UK was on top (and far above the others) and was caught up by both Germany and the US.
What a mouth full that was didnt bother to copy all of it. You contradicted yourself in that statement if you read it again. Isnt the UK still on top in Europe?
"quote" Well, you're wrong, for all the European car manufacturers have worked hard on reducing pollution and the amount of gas/oil cars need, and even on finding new ways to fuel cars. A BMW 5-series still need just half of the amount of gas any SUV needs to work... What's more, for instance, BMW has developed the prototype of a car fuelled by (liquid) hydrogen,...
5 series uses half the fuel of an SUV.. SO WRONG. I own a 5 series and an SUV. City, my 545 gets 18 (mpg) my Cherokee gets the same.....Dodge and Ford next year are comming out with the Hybrid SUV that gets 30mpg.
As for Liquid Hydrogen.. Wonder who came up with that? Ill tell ya...
Stanley A. Meyer an former NASA scientist.
You didnt teach me anything
Back to the EU 15 to 25. Its MESSY and its biting off more that it can chew
cell phonesabout cell phones, Europe is far ahead of the US when it comes to the developments of cell phones
Isnt the UK still on top in Europe?no
Back to the EU 15 to 25. Its MESSY and its biting off more that it can chewtime will tell, but I think the whole original idea of EU has vaporized. They now seek out to be a competitor to the US. Both financially , politically, and military. By the latter they want to get rid of all the Americans stationed in Europe.
VCR'sthe first VCR , Phillips Model 1500 Introduced in England in 1972
fiber optics well actually several people from several nations have been in on this , but the British Post Office spend a lot of money on research within the fiber optical field
diet soda, who cares 🙄
microwaves, came out of rader related research, so that product was based on other technology that was invented in Germany in 1904
Development of cell phone is irrelevent to my statement. I think Japan is in the lead Thats just one of many things the US has invented shared and traded with the world.
"quote" time will tell, but I think the whole original idea of EU has vaporized. They now seek out to be a competitor to the US. Both financially , politically, and military. By the latter they want to get rid of all the Americans stationed in Europe.
They even challange the US on the space program
"Now seeks out" where have you been? Europe has been trying to compete with the US as far back as I can remember. EU is competing with the people who came up with the produtcs they want to compete with in the first place. We follow them as they lead the way and copy.
Space program.... let me tell you this.. Only Americans know precisely the position of any object on the earth, other countries only know "roughly" These satellites /GPS can detect if a car drove down a road 4 hours after it left it parking spot. Long way to go and where does the technology come from that Europe wants to compete with. Whos got the Mars rover who learns space from who. Europe has teamed up with China to get involved with the US satelite "monoply". Its funny hows its a monoply.
Busquin and Dordain (officials of the ESA) admitted it will be difficult to persuade cash-strapped EU governments to spend much on a space program. This year, combined EU and ESA funding for space research comes to a little more than 5 billion euros ($5.8 billion). The U.S. space agency NASA receives nearly $15 billion annually. Ontop of that they now have private companies comming up ways for space transportation. See the one launched the other day from a US citizen that traveled 46 miles up? EU is harldly a competetor.
EU has 25 countries. The US is 1. US military shouldnt be in Europe anyways. I would find it hard pressed if Europe pushed them out because it only helps the economy of the country their in. If they move out it positions the US gov with more finances
5 series uses half the fuel of an SUV.. SO WRONG. I own a 5 series and an SUV. City, my 545 gets 18 (mpg) my Cherokee gets the same.....Dodge and Ford next year are comming out with the Hybrid SUV that gets 30mpg.Haha... You take the most powerful BMW (apart from the M5) and you compare it with a car which is not even a SUV...The Jeep Cherokee is a car designed to drive on all kind of road and of landscape. F-350 is a SUV.
Hydrogen...your question was what did the European do to reduce pollution due to cars...you can't even read...
. You contradicted yourself in that statement if you read it again. Isnt the UK still on top in Europe?No it isn't. And during the 19th century the UK was the most powerful (economically speaking) country in the world. Far better than the US.
You compare an F16 and an F15 which has been around longer than the 117A. (Which I might ad was invented roughly 30 years ago and not shown to the world until the 1st Gulf war) You missed the F22 Raptor... Which can track, heat sink and shoot 7 Dassault's Rafale at once. Not even close in technology or even on the same playing field.I can say the same thing to you: the Rafale is 15 year old.
WHO IS AT THAT MAKES PRODUCTS OUT OF OTHERES INVENTIONS??? Thats going back on half the years youve stated....You can't just give 2 examples and conclude. Satellites ? MIT ? If you look closer many of the men who came up with something were from other countries (German scientists in the Nasa,...)
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Development of cell phone is irrelevent to my statement. I think Japan is in the leadactually Sweden/Japan- Sony Ericson and Finland - Nokia
Space program.... let me tell you this.. Only Americans know precisely the position of any object on the earth, other countries only know "roughly" These satellites /GPS can detect if a car drove down a road 4 hours after it left it parking spotyouy really need to look it up again, the space program doesnt only concern the orbiting satelites, it is thye race for MArs and so on as well. Europe now benefit the aid of the Rusiian space program too
EU has 25 countries. The US is 1. USUS have 50 states, and EU is moving toward a system like that as well even if they deny it