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FirstQuaker -> RE: Bloodless Coups in the EU (11/13/2011 10:02:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Arpig
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Perhaps you should run Ontario with bank appointed mandarins, since that style of government appears to appeal to the lot of you.. And perhaps you should learn to read.
Since you like the EU and think what goes on there is a good thing, why not let some banks appoint the provincial government, if they don't like the budget or the provincial bond yields? You could probably get on in some sort of supporting staff role. Perfect job for you, and well paid too.
Of course from the left -
Major powers successfully dictate regime change in Greece
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The purpose of the national government is made abundantly clear—to prevent an election or any possibility of the plans of the financial oligarchy being thwarted by popular opposition.
In this, Greece can only be seen as a down payment on what is to come for countries throughout Europe and internationally.
On November 4, the Financial Times identified the next target for regime change. “In God’s name, go!” it proclaimed in another editorial, this time directed at Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi.
And the right -
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None the less, the virtual suspension of the democratic process that euro membership seems increasingly to demand should be viewed with alarm. Legitimacy, it appears, is expendable; the single currency is not. From the start, the march to European unification has always implied an erosion of sovereignty. But we seem to be reaching the point where the diktats of a small policy elite vastly outweigh the decisions of national parliaments.
A particularly unhealthy development is the emergence of the “Frankfurt Group”, a shadowy collection of senior policymakers, to drive through the measures thought necessary to save the euro. Its reported make-up – Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mario Draghi, José Manuel Barroso, Jean-Claude Juncker, Herman van Rompuy and Olli Rehn, with external powerhouses such as Barack Obama occasionally allowed in by invitation – gives no reason for confidence.
Nothing any of them has done to date has succeeded in stemming the crisis. On the contrary, their actions have often made matters worse. If the definition of madness is to do the same thing repeatedly and expect different outcomes, this collection of latter-day Napoleons would quickly be confined to the asylum. A policy agenda that has consistently failed is scarcely more likely to succeed if pursued more decisively and oppressively through a European equivalent of the Chinese Politburo.
Democracy is being sacrificed in Europe
Obama even seems to approve of this new way of doing things, and shows up when the Eurocrats need a hand.
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