Comments on: Save the People; Kill the European Superstate

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:23:14 +0000

All of the bailouts, stimulus, zero interest rate policies, trillion dollar deficits, QE and the like, is proof positive that there is no free lunch.

The bill must be paid.

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:17:43 +0000

I quite enjoy watching Greek Socialists and Euro Banksters reaming each other out. Even the CDS’s aren’t being allowed to kick in; poor hedge-funders. Suckers, all. And this is just the beginning: Portugal, Spain, Italy…finally the anglosphere. Beached, statist whales.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:36:17 +0000

“Athens, like Washington, is corrupt to the core.” You boiled it down to the basic. Washington’s corruption is the main reason for the myriad of dilemmas we face.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:02:52 +0000

In Revolt Of The Masses Ortega y Gasset expounds on the modern process of making a cannon: "you take a hole, wrap some steel wire tightly round it, and that's your cannon." It's breathtaking how far we've come and how much we can now make of a hole.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:31 +0000

Derek – one need not go so far as to compare the modern Greeks with the ancient Greeks as to just compare the American Moocher-hideen (the welfare-warfare addicts) with the American Founders. And that is just 200 or so years. Speaking of the welfare state, Patrick Buchanan has an excellent analysis on POVERTY in America:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/did-the-great-society-ruin-society/

with apparently many of the poor living better (in some ways) than I do. That half the country thinks that I should be taxed for such essentials as improving their sex life shows the complete degeneracy of the society.

Size seems to be a way to cover up economic irresponsibility. What a small bank cannot do, Fannie Mae can. There is no way that a small town could set up a welfare state while its neighbors practiced sound economics but scale up the government and corruption metastasizes. What a Wyoming or a Denmark could not do on its own, an America or a Europa can. There is little that a Peter Thiel can get out of a Continent-sized Megastate but there is much for the welfare-warfare consumers.

We should be more like Liechtenstein – small and free.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:44:19 +0000

Greece is so far gone down the path of the European union (a terrifying chimera of welfare, warfare, corporatism, dirigisme, postmodernism and erosion of morals), that I no longer believe it can fix its problems without a violent uprising by the people followed by a failure of whatever government they instal.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:18:18 +0000

I often wonder how Greek these modern “Greeks” really are. By the time the USA celebrates the 300 anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, over one half of the population will have become unrecognizable to our Founders. And this has occurred without the benefit of a foreign army invading and occupying the land.

Given it’s been about 8 times as long since Alexander, one wonders how much of Greece is unrecognizable to the Ancients given all the invasions and occupations that have occurred the last 2400 years.

I guess this is the only way I can square the present state of Greece against its great history, by believing these present occupants have nothing in common with the Ancients.