[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Those great debts really knock me out
They kick the West’s behind
Angela’s blubbery cellulite is hanging out
That EU troika is always on my, my, my, mind

Take me to the Carpathian mountains way down South
Let me foreclose your daddy’s farm
All the way the bankers’ hands are reaching out
Come and grease your comrade’s palm

I’m back in the EUSSR
You don’t know how lucky you are... boy

Back in the EU
Back in the EU
Back in the EUSSR

[proxy_user]

If we had a system like that, we’d have 50 parties, and none of them would be willing to join with any other.

[zeestephen]

I think a solid majority of Germans support the Euro, and so do I.

The anger and anxiety about it comes from two issues.

Will the European Central Bank try unlawful backdoor methods to inflate away unpayable debts for poor countries?

Will the German people be required to guarantee the sovereign debt of poor countries if the ECB takes those debts onto its balance sheet?

Merkel uses a lot of unnerving double talk on those two issues, from my perspective.

The solution seems obvious.

Vigorously pledge a “strong Euro” policy and no foreign debt guarantees.

I think the CDU could reach 50% with a platform like that.

[Impy]

German election ping. The vote is today.

Polling seems to indicate Merkel’s coalition will narrowly fail to win a majority, meaning a likely return to the disgusting coalition with the socialists from her first term.