The EU's architects never meant it to be a democracy ( Greece, Italy Taken Down)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | November 12 2011 | Christopher Booker

[Para-Ord.45]

The rise of a "technocracy" was always part of the plan for Europe.

So, as headlines scream that vain bids to save the euro threaten us with “Armageddon”, the EU’s ruling elite has toppled two more elected prime ministers, to replace them with technocratic officials who can be trusted to do Brussels’s bidding.

The new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, was the man who, as head of Greece’s central bank, fiddled the figures to enable Greece to get into the euro (against the rules) in the first place – before being rewarded with a senior post in the European Central Bank. He is no more democratically elected than Mario Monti, who will most likely be Italy’s new prime minister and had hurriedly to be made a “senator for life” to qualify him for the job. Monti’s main qualification is that, as a former senior EU Commissioner, he has long been a member of the Brussels elite himself.

The idea first conceived back in the 1920s by two senior officials of the League of Nations – Jean Monnet and Arthur Salter, a British civil servant – was a United States of Europe, ruled by a government of unelected technocrats like themselves.

[proxy_user]

Well, I don’t think this can work without any concentration camps. Rioters will simply overwhelm the technocrats and take over.

[PGalt]

Did you see what the Italian Technocrats are proposing?

An increase in VAT, from 20% to 21%

A freeze on public-sector salaries until 2014

The retirement age for women in the private sector will gradually rise, from 60 in 2014 until it reaches 65 in 2026, the same age as for men

Measures to fight tax evasion will be strengthened, including a limit of 2,500 euros on cash transactions

There will be a special tax on the energy sector

Much more...here...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/silvio-berlusconi-has-resigned-afte-17-years-prime-minister

Thanks to Tyler Durden and the OUTSTANDING posters at zerohedge.

[1010RD]

So a government imposed on a people isn’t free?

[headstamp 2]

From the link:

Mario Monti

Educated Yale (Keynesian)

Professor Turin Bocconi (25 yrs)

Technocrat EC since 1994

Member Tri-Lateral Commission, European Chair, Bilderberger Steering Committee

[familyop]

"The rise of a "technocracy" was always part of the plan for Europe...to replace them with technocratic officials...ruled by a government of unelected technocrats..."

Yeah, it's those evil engineers, mechanics and other technicians! They're the problem!

...fun with linguistic activism: tool of cowards looking at their doom (not y'all but those corporate-socialist politicos about to lose control).

2 definitions found for technocracy

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  technocracy \tech*noc"ra*cy\, n.
     government by technical specialists.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

  technocracy
       n : a form of government in which scientists and technical
           experts are in control

As for Europe, the so-called journalists work for the socialist politicians, who work for their multi-partisan, global, favored constituents. Those favored constituents use socialist government to prevent new competition from rising.

And the Italians and Greeks are not victims of the Germans and French. Briti-land is only jealous of any other nation that gets in the way of its designs for another lilting, lefty, centralized empire.

[familyop]

"Did you see what the Italian Technocrats are proposing?"

Thanks for bringing that to our attention. The Eyetalians should lay off most of the people paid by their government, as we should do here. And your username points the way for us to do that (avoid purchases, become more personally independent, etc.).

[GeronL]

Well, the EU is not a democracy so they got their wish.

[DJ MacWoW]

Stop Goofing Off And Donate

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[GeronL]

They will never drop the EUtopian dream until they are all dead or living in caves.

[Deetes]

The euro was, is one of the biggest scams in recent history.

[goldstategop]

There’s something to be said for not carrying 25 different national currencies in your pocket and sorting out which is which. On the other hand, the loss of national freedom is nothing to celebrate.

[bert]

If you buy everything with a mastercard, there is no problem, no worry. The bank will settle the currency exchange

[RedMDer]

FReepathon Day 43!

[goldstategop]

I bought with the euro. There’s one less currency for the bank to have to exchange. Still, the euro may too a high price for peoples in southern Europe to stay in. The breakup of the euro may be a matter of time, no matter what the politicians do to try to preserve it.

[Deetes]

I was meant the exchange with separate countries the lost some up to 20% hit when the euro went into circulation , many in the eastern parts of the eu . whats it called the vig :)