Muppet of the Month
30/09/2002
We have a strange one this week. Normally the award goes to an analyst or
fund manager who has shown himself to be particularly useless but to choose
one for September would be a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. I have therefore
decided to go for a country, or half of a country.
After much consideration the winner of the prize for September is Germany
due to their act of gross stupidity in putting Gerhardt Schroeder back in
power and then wondering why the hell everyone is selling the hell out of
the Dax.
Schroeder, and his government, have done a great many things to deserve this
award and I will list some of them:
- He bailed Mobilcom out for $400 mio a few days prior to the election and
they already look set to go bankrupt.
- In order to win votes he threw his toys out of the pram over Americas
actions on Iraq and threatened to withdraw German forces from Kuwait; the
sum total of which are 5 trucks who I gather sell Bratwurst.
- Schroeders actions, and that of his commie pinko subversive minister who
compared The Shrub to Hitler, have already led to US consumers boycotting
German goods.
- Due to Schroeders stewardship of the economy, and the fact that Germany
remains snookered by the Euro stability pact, they are unable to afford the
new euro military transport plane or the euro fighter jet.
- Schroeder continues to push for the setting up of a european rapid reaction
force. Without the planes how are they supposed to get anywhere, by bus?Or
perhaps the " rapid inaction force" will make use of all the cheap
air flights around. Without the money to equip this force they will be reduced
to performing traffic duties in Hamburg!
Potter is also muttering about something to do with world wars, world cups
and a Michael Owen hatrick, but I dont know what he's talking about.
Harry