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Originally Posted by NCB
You shouldn't be asking me how I like them apples, you should be asking the Germans, with their 12.4% unemployment rate and less than 1% growth (down from a robust 1.8% in the first two quaters of '04). You should ask the French with their 9.4% unemployment rate, though their growth rate is at is booming at 2.3%, the largest ROG in years.
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Using the numbers of the currently weakest economies of the E.U. to "prove" to overall economic weakness of the E.U. is akin to pointing out the very flawed economy of, say, California to "prove" an economical weakness of the whole states.