That's a lot of conjecture in one post. But then again, conservative shills with their ritual hate of wealth redistribution would write something like that.

Would you care to give some examples from the countries in question? (SE, LU, FI, DK)

Hello? The least corrupt countries (Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden) are the ones with the largest welfare systems.

Damn good question: Do Americans expect their government to steal information, business opportunities and jobs from allied countries, in other words, poop all over their so-called friends?

I will concede that Spain's problems are vastly different than Greece's. But you can hardly call it a good role model of economic growth. Look at all the empthy new houses, apartments and deserted airports. They failed at reining in the bank sector from committing greed driven harakiri. Along with many other countries.

Yes, because the Germans forced these countries to run their own economies into the ditch and rack up a gigantic debt...ahem...

You can influence your child's personality to a limited extent. You can't sculpt its reaction patters down to the last detail to suit future or past needs.
Look at your own current or future kids.

Are you crazy? The whole EU system of bureaucratic civil servants is derived from the French public service system, with an obscene focus on French language over the other two main languages (EN, DE), much disdain for non-francophones and a general "Pfffff!"-attitude towards everyone. You ought to love it.

Sorry, they're taken. They want to be a Nordic country.

If you by "state of the art" mean "the first fab is being built, right now" then you're right.

If I actually had a sense of humour, I'd be driving one of the General Motors-derivatives (Vauxhall, Opel, Saab,...). That's enough to extinguish any sort of optimism.

[citation needed]

Which makes me glad I just made it to acquire a new Swedish Volvo, before the build quality goes Chinese in the coming years. I have a bad feeling Volvo's swan song is fast approaching. :(

This will undoubtedly help them time the drogue/parachute release next time. Unfortunately this failed last time in an otherwise successful guidance experiment due to the accumulated error in the intertial navigation.

Your iPad will charge, connected via USB, even though it says it isn't. It just takes forever.

...in exchange for turning the blind eye on US gov't sponsored industrial espionage against EADS, Airbus, Astrium and the likes, why, thank you very much. We're not worthy...