Posted on 10/13/2017 6:56:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
French finance minister Bruno Le Maire called Thursday for the European Union to become a cohesive whole, as unified and ambitious as the United States, adding that it was time for Britain to face the consequences of Brexit.
The remarks come as the EU emerges from a rocky period of rising nationalism and challenges to its unity.
Talks between the EU and Britain, which voted last year to secede, deadlocked in Brussels on Thursday, leaving future trade relations in doubt.
“I think what we need within the Eurozone is more unity and more ambition,” Le Maire said during an event in Washington at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. “I don’t want speak about the Eurozone. I want to speak about an economic continent,” he added.
Le Maire said Eurozone members should aim to mirror the cohesion of the United States. …
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This speaks to what I’ve been saying about the US for quite a while. We were, before the Civil War, more like the EU. We need to return to that paradigm. And the EU has no health care mandates. They leave it up to the separate states.
That’s because most of the “separate” states have single-payer already, and their own “mandates”.
We had a social market economy before the Civil War, really? We had an unelected bureaucracy that wrote all the laws, and the Congress could not write a single law?
There has been a European Health Insurance Card in effect since 2006. Before that, there were separate cards for truckers, tourists, jobless people and students.
The last thing I want my country to be is like the euroweenies.
So they players will be kneeling at EU football games games too?
Exactly!
That’s because most of the “separate” states have single-payer already, and their own “mandates”.
We had a social market economy before the Civil War, really? We had an unelected bureaucracy that wrote all the laws, and the Congress could not write a single law?
I use this analogy: Before the Civil War, the US was like a brick wall, the bricks being the states and the thin layer of mortar being the U.S. government.
Now it is a wall of mortar with fifty little marbles pressed into it for decoration.
I believe a noisy german prat had the same vision with his third reich a few decades ago. I guess there is still a Vichy French element that agrees with him. Hitler came real close to his Eurozone dreams run by the reich.
The EU was never about states’ rights. It’s always been imperialistic. They didn’t make their Brussels government a copy of the USSR’s government for no reason.
False comparison. Was there anything like “single payer” in US states prior to the Civil War?
And again, the EU was never a federal project with limited governmental powers given to Brussels.
False comparison. Was there anything like “single payer” in US states prior to the Civil War?
Now, I may not be up on what the EU has done. Did the EU create some standardized mandate regarding universal health care that I’m not aware of?
And again, the EU was never a federal project with limited governmental powers given to Brussels.
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Well said.
I believe these huge bureaucracies are implemented by corrupt politicians to facilitate and increase their theft from the people.
The EU always wanted its own tax regimen and for member states to utterly suspend theirs. The carbon tax is the beginning of it, although it was always preceded by the so-called membership dues (redistribution).
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