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Come The Revolution? The Lisbon Treaty Versus The U.S. Constitution
An interesting and succinct compare-and-contrast (by MEP Daniel Hannan) of the U.S. Constitution and its European equivalent (Lisbon Treaty) presented with little comment except to note in the last week we have discussed how the Irish view their German masters, how the French/Italians/Spanish will do pretty much anything in order that the Bundesbank will enable ECB monetization, and perhaps more critically the exodus of capital not merely from peripheral European debt markets but from the core also. We suspect the status quo cannot exist much longer (Keynesian Endgame?) and regimes (fiscal/monetary/political) will change as tail risk becomes the only risk.
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is this neuro linguistic programming? :) somehow when I read your post I feel as if
wooooooooooooooooo im adapting consistently/constantly.
PM me i know how humanity thinks too :)
We can PM here? Gosh I feel lonely now.
Name noted though, thoroughly amused.
Since the constitution is a "living document" it is and has been subject to many permuations of interpretations. The issue is that venal motherfuckers are allowed to bend its amendments such that said amendments have been in essence perverted and subverted. I hold out scant hope that more qualified individuals will be allowed to correctly interpret it and its spirit in our current context.
Yeah much like the Bible in fact which is also many good words on a piece of paper but ignored by the corrupt in the Church
my only wonder is how many times have Constitutions (in the EU, the US and their hundreds of Laws too) got to fail before idealists (sheeple) give up believing in them?
The free market works so well because it's free (free of rules, free of laws and free of fuking constitutions) ...maybe we should give freedom a chance (for once) because these pieces of paper have been failing for Centuries
It is fascinating to watch as the great socialist experiment in Europe implodes. The irony is that the failure of the Euro is not just because of public dept, it will ultimately be because richer and harder working Germany refuses to redistribute its wealth to the more profligate southern nations. The Germans expect to keep the products of their labor, they expect the PIIGS to take responsibililty for their own fiscal behavior. At the same time, all of these countries consider themselves a SOCIAL paradise where wealth is resdistributed in the name of economic and social justice.
Gimme a break
No truer words have ever been said;)
And especially true now democratically elected governments are being toppled and puppet regimes are put in their place. All for the public good, of course. "The lights in Europe are going out".
Have you guiz ever watched the Black Friday hords at Walmart vids?
CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.
According to the memo, if Democrats embrace OWS, “This would mean more than just short-term political discomfort for Wall Street. … It has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye.”
The memo also suggests that Democratic victories in 2012 should not be the ABA’s biggest concern. “… (T)he bigger concern,” the memo says, “should be that Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies.”
Two of the memo’s authors, partners Sam Geduldig and Jay Cranford, previously worked for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Geduldig joined CLGC before Boehner became speaker; Cranford joined CLGC this year after serving as the speaker’s assistant for policy. A third partner, Steve Clark, is reportedly “tight” with Boehner, according to a story by Roll Call that CLGC features on its website.
Jeff Sigmund, an ABA spokesperson, confirmed that the association got the memo. “Our Government Relations staff did receive the proposal – it was unsolicited and we chose not to act on it in any way,” he said in a statement to "Up."
CLGC did not return calls seeking comment.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel declined to comment on the memo. But he responded to its characterization of Republicans as defenders of Wall Street by saying, “My understanding is that President Obama is the single largest recipient of donations from Wall Street.”
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/19/8884405-lobbying-firms-memo-spells-out-plan-to-undermine-occupy-wall-street
Danial Hannan is the Euro mirror image of Rep. Ron Paul ...both purport to support the free market and freedom but both are idealists with only an idealistic grasp of what they're talking about
Which is why both Hannan and Paul both come up with the same 'answer' to the problem of Govt
Hannan thinks pushing Govt power down the chain to a more local Govt is the 'solution' ..Hannan hasn't spotted small local Govt has all the exact same hallmarks/problems as Big Govt
Paul thinks making national Big Govt into smaller Govt changes everything. He should also refer to smaller US State Govts and town councils. All the same corruption, all the same suicide spending and bankruptcy, all the same dumb decision making.
Size doesn't matter and is not the issue but these 2 idealists don't notice it nor do they 'get it' ...they keep on with the dumb idealistic mantra they're given to hum and even write books about it
This video also demonstrates Danial Hannan yet again at his idealistic stupid best/worst. He supports the US Constitution because it is based on "individual freedom" and disses the EU Constitution because it's based on "State centered power"
Yet again Danny Boy has not tested his idealistic view against reality (never a strong point with politicos). Danny hasn't noticed despite the different versions of the EU and US Constitutions that BOTH continents are suffering the EXACT SAME corruption, bankruptcy and abuse of freedom as each other.
Yes Danny Boy, the Constitutions make no fuking difference whatsoever. Doh! The EU and US are both in the exact same bankrupt sinking boat despite different ideals in their Constitutions. Clearly idealism makes no difference, there must be something else at play
That'll be because Govt is not a size problem nor what BS they write into Law but because the problem of Govt is systemic and fundamental. Govt is a monopoly.
Govt is a monopolisation of power and authority in society (the opposite of mans freedom to choose and the enemy of free markets)
What is the solution to a monopoly? Freedom. Freedom allows competition. Competition is the enemy and antidote to monoplies and monoplists. Freedom means zero Govt (State authroity) because authroity is left with the people in a free society
Have you got it now Hannan and Paul ??!!
TOTPOTS ( the tyranny of the person over the state)
that would be better
The reason is the basis of our economy is UNSOUND money. We have a DEBT based FIAT currency that is LEVERAGED via FACTIONAL RESERVE LENDING. The debt bubble is so huge it there is no way this can end well. The most probable route is deflation given that credit is the bulk of the system. Ron Paul has it correct. We first need SOUND money or money backed by gold.
The Fed will never be able to monetize it all because the debt will implode if he gained any real traction.
BULLSHIT BITCHEZ
Not sure if this is the place to post this, but here goes. I am an avid reader here and my thought is with the EU changing the game on Greece with a 50% haircut making CDS basically worthless, they now have to pay real interest rates to borrow. I see alot here talking about flight of money out of Europe and can you blame investors for not wanting to invest if all they are going to do is change the game screwing investors? I am not a investor but does this make sense or am I missing something? Thank in advance to any that can reply to this.
I guess if I was an investor with that kind of money why should I invest there when we had so many countries in the same shape and the EU will do the same on the other countries.
We allowed this to happen. Everyone was comfortable and asleep.
Wall St. Mob to replace Geithner with Corzine, LOL.
Fortunately, over the last 100 years, the Republicans and Democrats have filled all the woeful gaps in our Constitution, regulating everything from how we spend our money to what we do in our bedrooms.