[robroys woman]

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?

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I did not say it was identical. I said it was similar. The main point is that the Federal Government was tightly constitutionally limited and most power went to the states. That has been reversed.

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.

[redcatcherb412]

Eurozone to become 'a great country' like US, says French minister,

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.

[Olog-hai]

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.