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Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:56 am
by norge
im glad that im not in the EU
so i can gett beef and milk
cheers ken
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:08 am
by housil
I would be happy if we weren´t in EU too.
Not for food import only...
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:39 pm
by scottymonger
housil wrote:I would be happy if we weren´t in EU too.
Not for food import only...
What? you don't like bailing out Lazy Greeks!
Get used to it. As the economic superpower of the EU, Germany will be called upon to help bailout more of her so called "partners", so their people can retire at 50!
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:48 pm
by Cracker
Both the German and Dutch goverment have somewhat of a "Oh look me!!" function within the EU..
They always want to be the most generous.. The Dutch goverment pays the most to the EU looked at the amount of €€€ per inhabitant. Outragious..
They should kick out the greeks, portuguese and some others..
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:23 pm
by norge
norway is a prospect to eu so we use loads of money to, and follow a bunch
of weird rules made by eu so im not happy about that...
norway gave island afhter the money problem they had MANY miliones
and now they are emty again
so eu is not so good,its my mind
cheers ken
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:28 pm
by Bypah
Somebody mentioned " lazy greeks"??? hmmmmmm......
We can't talk too much when our economy depends A LOT on foreign invesments...chinese.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/21/news/in ... /index.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/in ... 2010050709
Plus we take a lot of loans from the chinese ...a lot.they are the biggest lender of money to the US.
They are bailing us!!!!
http://wallstreet.blogs.fortune.cnn.com ... -holdings/
If they decide to dump all of those
bonds and simply ask to be repaid in full. We are in deep trouble.....
Who is worse now???
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:54 pm
by dirtbag
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:31 am
by Cracker
Chinese loans are not that bad?
Why not? They will never let your country crash.
Why is that? Because the chinese economy needs our money.
They are practically only giving money to you to spend in China.
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:12 am
by sevcikcz
housil wrote:
You need to fill out a special customs declaration where you have to proof from where the meet comes from, that it is free from germs, that the seller (!) is allowed to import into EU (there is a list of US companies they are allowed to export meet into EU) and it need to be filled out into your national language!
Thanks for the reply, yet bad news though
How do the MREs get over to Europe? I have a few friends in the US who help with stuff like clothes and other equipment but this matter is a totally different one as I can see now.
Re: US foods in exchange for rations
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:55 am
by Cracker
Some military units sometimes use them (for example Dutch army and marines in mission in afghanistan, iraq etc)
Those MREs tend to show up everywhere except for afghanistan.
Also, loads of US forces are still located in Europe, and there are always people from the logistics units that try to make a buck from selling goverment property. But the most that show up in the Netherlands are MREs that are issued by the US (against payment offcourse) to the Dutch military..