What about the USA?

Gunnerkid

So with the EU in trouble and things not looking good for the Eurozone, what would you think if the USA offered to take the Republic in as a state or protectorate would you vote in favor of it or against it.

I think a similar thread to this has been made before but with whats been happening in the Eurozone lately I thought it would be an interesting question to ask.

galwayrush

They would only laugh at us at this stage..

Killer Pigeon

What's the point, dude, the USA is also fucked.

RichieC

no, I'd rather Europeans had power over us than yanks, though I'd probably just rather we had power over ourselves at this stage.

earpiece

Against... rather have Bertie back.


Did I really just write this!

Gunnerkid

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

What's the point, dude, the USA is also fucked.

thats correct but which mess would you prefer than

LH Pathe

What about? I'm sure theyre on peoples conscience..

especially the younger folk

Suryavarman

Hasn't this thread been done before?

Also the US is as bad as Ireland now, I propose that we ask The Principality of Sealand to take us in.

Turtyturd

Death penalty for scumbags.

Where To

China.

Amirani

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Q.E.D.

Gunnerkid

where do i go from here wrote: »

China.

will the Irish actually be willing to learn Chinese plus which dialect

Oh_Noes

Not sure which is worse, I don't want either.

carfiosaoorl

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit no, have you lost your mind? I would rather we were kicked out to sea and left fend for ourselves. Actually as a country I think if we went back to basics we could easily survive on our own.

ejmaztec

Gunnerkid wrote: »

So with the EU in trouble and things not looking good for the Eurozone, what would you think if the USA offered to take the Republic in as a state or protectorate would you vote in favor of it or against it.

I think a similar thread to this has been made three million times before but with whats been happening in the Eurozone lately I thought it would be an interesting question to ask.

fyp

LeixlipRed

Akin to John Delaney asking could we be the 33rd country at the World Cup.

Where To

Gunnerkid wrote: »

will the Irish actually be willing to learn Chinese plus which dialect

Won't need to we could be the Puerto Rico of China.

minus the hot women :mad:

policarp

-Snip-

The Internet Explorer

In my opinion this is an absolutely absurd idea.

J. Marston

I can imagine Blatter Obama telling congress: ''Yes, they want to be the 51st state!''

Pepe LeFrits

RichieC wrote: »

no, I'd rather Europeans had power over us than yanks, though I'd probably just rather we had power over ourselves at this stage.

I dunno, might have been better if we hadn't had the ability to give Bertie the keys!

John Doe1

how about canada instead?

Pal

America !

Christ no !

The best thing about that country is the departure lounges in the airports.

fran oconnor

Yep, i'd go for it if we had no other choice.

IvySlayer

Why America? China had to rescue their economy!

Iwasfrozen

John Doe1 wrote: »

how about canada instead?

This is a much better idea.

Alan b.

there was an interesting proposition made before where china would write off all our debts, in exchange for permission to build a mega port on the west coast as a staging area for european imports.
they would build it using irish workers and provide irish jobs and turn over a % to the irish economy for the privalige.

it would be a huge eyesore no doubt so the grannys would say no and that would be that, but an interesting alternative.

could give the eurozone the two fingers aswell and go back to the punt.

skinny90

Alan b. wrote: »

there was an interesting proposition made before where china would write off all our debts, in exchange for permission to build a mega port on the west coast as a staging area for european imports.
they would build it using irish workers and provide irish jobs and turn over a % to the irish economy for the privalige.

it would be a huge eyesore no doubt so the grannys would say no and that would be that, but an interesting alternative.
t.

when was that?

Alan b.

skinny90 wrote: »

when was that?

i cant remember when i read about it first, but i heard it being spoken about again earlier this year.

not sure if it was an actual proposition that was made, or one of those "what if" senarios. i can try find out.
im sure there is some basis in truth to it. how much though i dont know.

Leeg17

Policarp banned for 7 days from the forum for racist language, keep it civil folks

Overheal

Suryavarman wrote: »

Hasn't this thread been done before?

Many, many times.

skinny90

why hasnt it been made public im sure a high majority of people would be up for it seeing as unemployment is massive at the moment.where are they think of building it???it sounds good to have something like that but for china would they not get a better deal if the choose france,after all we are still an island,im sure transport costs would be somewhat cheaper if it was in mainland europe no?

PeterIanStaker

No - they're in as much, if not more, debt as Europe is, we'd be better off going back to the Punt if we could, or defaulting and doing an Iceland, they seem to be doing OK.

As it stands we're going to wind up like Greece because we've put ourselves in a position to be dictated to by Merkozy.

sbsquarepants

Why the hell would anyone WANT to be part of america? They're the most fúcked up society on earth!

cena

I would rather we didn't go back too the punt. Wouldn't people loose out on there savings by changing over to the punt

MungBean

The European union would be ok if it actually functioned like it should. For example we should have a fiscal union with shared responsibility across the member states.

If the ECB wanted the banks held up the cost should have been distributed across all member states and not just lumped on us or lent to us at interest.

Grassroots_FF

cena wrote: »

I would rather we didn't go back too the punt. Wouldn't people loose out on there savings by changing over to the punt

No they wouldn't. That's a complete myth.

Biggins

Gunnerkid wrote: »

So with the EU in trouble and things not looking good for the Eurozone, what would you think if the USA offered to take the Republic in as a state or protectorate would you vote in favor of it or against it.

I think a similar thread to this has been made before but with whats been happening in the Eurozone lately I thought it would be an interesting question to ask.

No. An absolute stupid idea.

cena

Grassroots_FF wrote: »

No they wouldn't. That's a complete myth.

How so?

TheZohanS

earpiece wrote: »

Against... rather have Bertie back.


Did I really just write this!

If the US were in charge B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-Bertie would be in jail for white collar crime.

No bank account me àrse. Rather have Bertie back? Are you on the scag?

texidub

Silly idea (although I get paid in USD so it would suit me )

BUT a huge country with lots of resources, a pop in excess of 300 million and economic, military and cultural influence all over the globe (whether right or wrong, and yes a lot of it is wrong) is not really "as ****ed as Ireland" is it? I think that's just hubris and a bit of the aul Napoleon Syndrome. It's cute though *pat pat*

donalg1

I would be all for it imagine getting to go to dennie's for brekkie whenever you want, all the outlets they would have here would be pretty cool too.

Then there is the serious side of proper sentences for criminals like the 3 strikes rule and the death penalty. Plus I could start using words like awesome and super.

cena

donalg1 wrote: »

I would be all for it imagine getting to go to dennie's for brekkie whenever you want, all the outlets they would have here would be pretty cool too.

Then there is the serious side of proper sentences for criminals like the 3 strikes rule and the death penalty. Plus I could start using words like awesome and super.

I too would like this. Would we all become U.S citizen

Wetai

Do we get do share their 3 trillion dollars debt? Do we, do we?!

paddyandy

No bloody thanks i would'nt dream of annexing to that ......Don't upset me!

Crazy Horse 6

Gunnerkid wrote: »

So with the EU in trouble and things not looking good for the Eurozone, what would you think if the USA offered to take the Republic in as a state or protectorate would you vote in favor of it or against it.

I think a similar thread to this has been made before but with whats been happening in the Eurozone lately I thought it would be an interesting question to ask.

As bad as things are in Europe the US in in a much worse off place. They really are gonna have to start a war fairly soon to distract the sheeple over there.

ScumLord

America seems like a bit of a fascist state to me, how many different police forces does one country need? I think the citizens are having all their power taken away from them and are under the thumb of big business politics. Americans are some of the coolest people on the planet but their countries just not a place I'd like to live.

Alan b.

people seem to foret that the us lthough considered a country,
is effectively 50 contries that unionised under one common currencey and common trade/taxation laws,
one military force/budget, one overall president.

fairly similir to what europe was trying to do just couldnt achieve.

paddyandy

I love america across the great Atlantic Ocean.......but not here..i see too much of it as it is.See grafton street destroyed with garish tacky shop fronts.Stay away u s of a.

saa

If Jesus was still in power this never would have happened. ~

Alan b.

we couldnt have a zombie mad man running the show.