Posted on 12/10/2011 9:42:45 AM PST by Qbert
The deal signed by the eurozone countries still faces huge hurdles, because of simmering tensions between the member states and growing disenchantment within their own borders.
A startling poll last night showed that only a third of French people believed that their country should stay in the euro indefinitely.
The situation in Germany was scarcely better with support for staying in the single currency long-term standing at just 41 per cent.
The figures were revealed in a ComRes survey for CNN last night. It shows how the leaders pressing for closer integration are dangerously out of touch with their own people.
The poll was conducted across seven eurozone countries. It also found that only 38 per cent in Greece and 37 per cent in Ireland and Portugal wanted to remain in the euro.
The study found that almost half of the French and Germans believe they would be better off outside the euro. Some 42 per cent in both countries said they should never have joined the currency.
Just 37 per cent of people in Germany and 35 per cent in France believe their economies are in better shape because they are in the euro.
In Germany about 40 per cent were also opposed to the idea of closer European integration as championed by Angela Merkel. Only 15 per cent thought EU officials could be trusted to run Germanys economy. In France, just 20 per cent of people thought EU officials should be handed sweeping powers over the economy.
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Globalism’s trade will implode, too. I hope. We are in a rush to the bottom (Indian and Chinese poverty) with that scheme. And the “citizen of the world” culture it designed and pushed on the US and Europeans is tribalist, racist, unethical and disgusting. It is lawless.
You are right Friend Festusbanjo, my only correction would be to say it’s a very bad **gay** marriage because - well - where are the kids?
To be more scientific let’s just say that “anthropologically” we’re too different and whereas some integration was fine, necessary and even physiological, this MASHING (which at the time I myself favored) was a mistake. That’s why I say that these meetings should be about undoing - CTRL-Z - and not about deepening the misery.
Mistakes happen... in fact, much of politics is a lesson in unintended consequences. Look at what welfare did to the blacks of the USA. Or consider multi-culturalism.
Who invented the saying: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions?”
WIKIPEDIA:
The saying is thought to have originated with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who wrote, “L’enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs” (hell is full of good wishes and desires)
This Saint’s worth on the idea exchange just shot up 10% where as NIKE’S “Just do it” is losing traction!
Viva l’America (especially where banjos are played)
Thanks Qbert.
>>>>They are surrendering self determination to the EU if they accept this nonsense. Why would the Germans and the French want to be ruled by a committee of amoral, politically correct technocrats who could care less about them and who are untouchable?<<<<
Trouble is that there, much like here, there are 50+ percent of the adult population who prefer to have someone else do the heavy lifting for them. And so they side with the unions, the liberals, the socialists, the greens, the communists...Of course as you say it can’t work because the fewer and fewer can’t support the more and more.
Right now in this country we are fighting a lazy, vindictive, destructive president who uses terms like “fairness” and “luck” and “privilege” and “they” & “them” in hopes of winning just a few more percent to his side of envy and dependency, thereby changing the course of the U.S. forever.
This kind of insulting statements (”retarded socialist brothers to the south”) are openly promoted by the anglo media. I wonder if this is the last kind of racism allowed.
Just for the record. Italy is a major EU net payer. They pay between 4 and 5 net billion euros to Brussels each year. Italians have never got a net cent from Germany. And Spain will become a net payer soon too.
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