I left home at the crack of dawn this morning to the news that one of America’s brewing organisations had been bought by a Belgium company.

I arrived home some 12 hours later to find CNN reporting that there has been some sort of outcry amongst the public with the Internet being awash with postings decrying the takeover.

My immediate thought was that some people need to take a deep breath and smell the reality of their lives. One of my earliest perceptions of the American people is that they love their freedom, it is other peoples freedoms that they seem to have a problem with. Dubya has apparently brought freedom to Iraq but were the Iraqi people free to choose their own idea of freedom? They weren’t even free to choose whether or not they wanted to be free. Everybody here espouses this as “The land of the Free” but if Iranians decide they are free to burn the American flag then Americans then the American people decide that they have too much freedom and America should declare war.

European companies are free to bid for American military contracts….. Just as long as they don’t have the audacity to actually win otherwise Congress has to get involved.

And so it is with Budweiser it seems. Sure; it is an “American Institution” just as Aston Martin was a “British Institution” when Ford bought them. It seems that America is free to buy any company in the world that it wants but the world is not free to buy American.

I can understand the pride of the American people in Budweiser but I can promise them that the Belgium version of “Joe Public” is even more horrified!

Europeans generally regard American beer as weak and little more than soda water (I personally have always liked it) and Inbev does brew more notable beers such as Beck’s and Stella Artois But will this be the end of it? I think not!

The mighty U.S. Dollar is now valued somewhere below a snakes belly compared to the other currencies of the world and across the world companies are looking at the United States like the American public looks at the Wal - Mart Thanksgiving sale.

Is this the end of truth justice and the American way…? No it is just business as it actually is in the rest of the world and America should wake up and smell the coffee before it get’s bought out as well. America will go on; just as Britain survived the sale of it’s car industry to the Germans (before they sold part of it to India) and America (before they tried to sell it because they are on their “uppers.” In the meantime’ if you see some funny looking gentlemen with bulging pockets and speaking in tongues then the rough translations are probably “Look at my wad” and “is that all????” Please remember that they are supposed to be free as well, even if you can’t get your head around the fact that American companies almost are to them.

T.T.F.N.