Everything about this election

[SandersDem]

is making me sick.

The debate ignoring global warming.
The debate being sfrigged for HRC
The debate 'pre-game' being moderated by a former Clinton activist and adviser.
The bans and vitriol here on DU
DWS and her bullshit which could tear this party in half. (It really has me thinking about what I have been a part of my entire life)
Lobbyists and Billionaires who just buy elections.
The destruction of the middle class during my lifetime.
The fact that even with an amazing scholarship, I am still paying $16K per year for my son's education and wondering how families much less fortunate than mine manage something like this.
A Christian religion so off the rails in the US that they have honestly forgotten the teachings of Jesus in favor of lunatic policies like Cruz, Huckabee and Carson.
A smug racist asshole with money leading in the polls.
And because of it discovering just who in my family has been a closet racist for so many years via their Facebook posts.
Being forced to explain to my team why their meager 2% salary increases and a lack of any meaningful bonus is still a great reason to smile and keep on plugging away.
Watching neighbor after neighbor getting foreclosed upon time after time for the last fucking 9 years.
Living in a State that doesn't value teachers at all and as a result is last in the country in Education.
Seeing innocent people repeatedly slaughtered every single week all because gun owners in the US have bought into a lobbyist for gun manufacturers thinking they actually give one shit about their twisted rights under the Constitution.
Knowing that one at least one, maybe two Supreme Court Justices, can be so smart and yet so ignorant.

Honestly, googling about Denmark and Sweden and considering moving.

The ONLY thing keeping me going this time around is knowing that we actually have ONE candidate in this election that could actually SAVE America, but wondering if he gets elected, just how he will get any of it done in the face of such a collection of elected filth in Congress and even with all of that, I can only hope, contribute and try and help as much as time allows to elect Bernie Sanders.

Because:

The people on Wall Street abusing the system are NOT my friends.
The people at the banks who speculated with our money only to wind up foreclosing on 80% of the homes in my zip code and the one next to me are NOT my friends.
The individuals who are actively attempting to use my Party to influence and rig this election on behalf of one candidate are NOT my friends.
The bat-shit crazy religious fanatics who want to void the separation between church and state are NOT my friends.
The media who refuse to fairly cover my candidate because their bosses say they can't are NOT my friends.
The elected officials that virtually eliminated tarriffs and signed or voted for agreements that sent jobs to China and Overseas are NOT my friends, it does not matter what Party they belong to.

So why does this election continue to make me sick?

Because apparently, I do not have that many friends in this country unless they are 18 to 28 or old hippies with a smattering of people in between.

Time to go outside and enjoy some sunshine.

[daleanime]

1. Amen.....

Couldn't have said it any better.

[Proserpina]

2. Don't go to the Eurozone!

Iceland, or maybe England, or Russia...

The Europeans have enslaved themselves to the banksters, and until they rise up in bloody revolution, it's going to be more than ugly. It's going to be starvation.

[MisterP]

4. Scandinavia's not in the Eurozone

[Proserpina]

5. Some of it is: Here are all the countries that don’t have a currency of their own

http://qz.com/260980/meet-the-countries-that-dont-use-their-own-currency/

Euro: Andorra, Kosovo, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Vatican City.

Following the pattern above, this must be called “euroization.”

Most euro-using countries are neighbors of the European Union, like the principalities of Monaco and Andorra. Montenegro and Kosovo, two of the smallest remnants of what was Yugoslavia, changed currencies twice in less than four years; in 1999, they swapped the Yugoslav dinar for the Deutsche mark, and then each adopted the euro when the notes entered circulation in January 2002.

The turnaround was pretty quick. More than 2.5 billion Deutsche marks were held in Kosovo before 2002, tucked away in mattresses because of a general distrust of banks. These all had to be converted. In the first two weeks of use, for example, Montenegro’s central bank flew in “two planeloads of euro notes and 40 tons of coins.” In Kosovo, 100,000 bank accounts were opened in just the last month prior to the introduction of the euro.

Countries in a currency union

Euro: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

Calls for monetary union in Europe date back to the 1920s, but things got serious when the European Commission (of the European Economic Community, precursor to the European Union) began looking into ways to stabilize fluctuations between the their currencies in the late 1960s. In 1989, the path to monetary union was set out in the Delors report. In 1992, the Maastricht Treaty was signed, which created the EU and set up the path to the launch of the euro in 1999. In 2002, euro notes and coins entered circulation.

There are extensive criteria to join the euro, but nothing in the EU treaties about leaving it—which was unfortunate, as many countries’ finances came under severe strain in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. (None more so than Greece, which at one pointed owed $250,000 for each working adult.) While the euro looked doomed for awhile, the problem was solved using one of the best traditions of capitalism: throwing more debt at the problem. Greece was bailed out—twice—and there was one bailout each for Portugal, Ireland, and Cyprus by the euro zone countries and the IMF. Spain’s banks were bailed out, too, and a 500 billion-euro fund was set up to permanently act as a firewall to prevent this from happening again.

Currently, 18 countries comprising 330 million people use the euro. All the countries have given up monetary authority to the European Central Bank, which sits in Frankfurt.

The euro (€) is the official currency of 19 out of 28 EU member countries. These countries are collectively known as the Eurozone.



The euro is the most tangible proof of European integration – the common currency in 19 out of 28 EU countries and used by some 338.6 million people every day. The benefits of the common currency are immediately obvious to anyone travelling abroad or shopping online on websites based in another EU country.
EU monetary cooperation

The Economic and Monetary Union involves the coordination of economic and fiscal policies, a common monetary policy and the euro as the common currency. The euro was launched on 1 January 1999 as a virtual currency for cash-less payments and accounting purposes. Banknotes and coins were introduced on 1 January 2002.

Take a look at euro banknotes and coins.
Which countries use the euro?

The euro (€) is the official currency of 19 out of 28 EU member countries. These countries are collectively known as the Eurozone.
Eurozone countries

Austria
Belgium
Cyprus
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
the Netherlands
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain

Non-eurozone countries

Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Sweden

Countries with an opt-out

Denmark
United Kingdom

http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/money/euro/index_en.htm

[MisterP]

6. that's what I said

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_krone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_krona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_krone

[Proserpina]

9. But the borders aren't going to be much protection (nor the banks)

if the SHTF. Europe is small, with small or non-existent armies. And they have BIG problems that are only getting worse, that will spill over, just as the refugee problem is spilling over.

[Wilms]

3. What's wrong with friends who are 18 to 28 or old hippies with a smattering of people in between.

[LiberalElite]

7. You took

the words right outta my mouth.

[Fawke Em]

11. I think the OP meant that as a compliment, even though the M$M considers

"those people" as less than the Wall Streeters and their buddies.

[Wilms]

12. I did understand...

...and was just teasing the OP.

[LiberalElite]

8. It's a good idea to

enjoy the sunshine - and also appreciate your friends. They might be gone someday.

[corkhead]

10. And you didn't even mention my biggest annoyance of the debate: Koch-y Roberts

When is Fox or CNN going to invite Michael Moore to the Republicon debate pregame?