We will find out to what extent Germany's constitutional court (pictured) shares
these views when it rules this Wednesday on the legality of the EU rescue machinery
Posted on 09/04/2011 11:38:09 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
For fifty years Germany has invariably stumped up the money required to keep Europe’s Project on track, responding to unreasonable demands with grace and generosity.
We will find out to what extent Germany's constitutional court (pictured) shares
these views when it rules this Wednesday on the legality of the EU rescue machinery
It bankrolled French farmers through the Common Agricultural Policy, that disguised tithe for war reparations. It then bankrolled Spanish farmers as well.
It funded each new wave of EU expansion, though reeling itself from the €60bn annual cost of its own reunification. It gave up the cherished D-Mark, the anchor of German economic stability.
We are so used to German self-abnegation for the sake of Europe that we can hardly imagine any other state of affairs. But the escalating protest against EMU bail-outs by Germany’s key insistutions go beyond the banalities of money. The fight is over German democracy itself.
Those who talk of a Fourth Reich or believe that EMU is a "German racket to take over the whole of Europe" – as Nicholas Ridley famously put it -- have the matter backwards.
Germans allowed their country to be tied down with "silken chords". They are the most reliable defenders of freedom and parliamentary prerogative in Europe, precisely because they know their history.
Finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble could hardly have chosen a more toxic term than "Bevollmächtigung" or general enabling power when he requested blanket authority from the Bundestag for EU rescues, as if Weimar were so soon forgotten. He was roundly rebuffed.
You can feel the storm brewing in Germany. Within days of each other, President Christian Wulff accused the European Central Bank of going "far beyond" its mandate and subverting Article 123 of Lisbon Treaty by shoring up insolvent
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great article
time for Germany to stop bailing out the rest of the EU
I’m joking, but perhaps Omoslem’s plan is a Fourth Reich, combined with his Libya/Egypt/Iran caliphate, all attacking Israel.
The NAZIS, teamed up with the Moslem Brotherhood.
Wait, maybe I’m not joking.
Liberals in the US continue to use the issue of slavery as the means of extracting cash for socialist power.
Liberals in Europe use the issue of Nazi Germany for the same cause.
The world needs to realize, SOCIALISM DOESN’T WORK.
Germany may end up saving them all by stopping the bailout nonsense.
Liberals in Europe use the issue of Nazi Germany for the same cause.
That's a very good analogy.
Bingo.
And why doesn't it work?
(1) It requires a totalitarian state for its establishment and implementation.All this is obvious to all honest, intelligent people, and yet millions are convinced that they can overcome its obvious self-defeating flaws and make it work. They can't.(2) It rewards nonproductivity and punishes productivity.
(3) It inevitably destroys the economy.
Furthermore, in order to give it a try, they must ignore the obvious built-in flaws that it requires totalitarianism and destroys the economy, and, in trying it yet again, what they produce is an impoverished police state.
Tell that to AMERICA!
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