Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote: “O’ if God the gift to gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.”

"The U.S has a worse debt-to-GDP ratio than the whole eurozone, and we are talking about the eurozone, not about the United States and that Congress can't get its act together," said a member of the German press during the briefing. "So from the European perspective, it seems that this country is ...in a bigger mess than Europe. We are not proud where we are. We know that it's slow and not bold, and so on, but at least they are doing something; they are deciding something, they're trying to pull that through. And here, nothing is happening -- third time this year," he added, referring to the Supercommittee failure.

We have the worst government money can buy, from the President to all the corrupt agencies up and down. Throw them all out. The first 500 names in the Toledo Phone book could govern better than this bunch.
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German press irked by US, pushes WH on debt | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

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In an apparent suggestion of United States hypocrisy on debt issues, a journalist in the German media challenged White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on the role of the United States in responding to the European debt crisis.