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The Euro
Dizer writes: "Today sees the historic introduction of the new European Currency (Euro) into European hands. The Eurozone market, with a population
of 300 million people, will be cashing in their Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks in favour of the new common Euro currency. This is the biggest currency transition in history, vive l'Europe! See stories on
ireland.com or the BBC."
First post, and my anus itches.
Restating the obvious since nineteen aught five.
The story is from *BRUSSELS*. BRUSSELS is not in ireland. ireland is more or less a part of britain, and follows their economic policy.
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.
Speaking as a Canadian, I have to say, I can never get over how authoritarian American money looks like. It would be right at home in the most totalitarian, oppressive society on Earth. Oh wait, it is!
Go Kathryn Thurber!
The control of this currency rests with the German Government. Unlike the presidency of the EEC, which rotates so that each country can have a turn at running Europe, the control of the Euro is fixed with the Germans.
This is not fair or right.
The UK is the most powerful economy in Europe, and its government is clearly the best at managing an economy. If anyone should be running the Euro, fixing the interest rates and running the inevitable European tax system, its the Bank of England, and NOT the Bundesbank.
Either way, whoever is running the Euro, giving control of your currency to another nation is suicide.
Can you imagine the US Treasury accepting the control of the Dollar and the US economy from Canada or Mexico?
That is precisely what is happening in Europe. This is totally wrong, and everyone here is being brainwashed into accepting the Euro because it is superficially convenient.
This effectively was a Euro referendum
This is typical European doubletalk.
You can not "effectively" have a referendum on something; a referendum deals with specific agendas. You cannot piggyback other agendas by extension. This is undemocratic, and is the main complaint against European integration.
Europeans, who are forved by law to carry ID to walk the streets, and who suffer other sorts of dehumanizing laws as a part of thier "culture" cannot understand what real democracy is about.
This is why we should not join with them on any level.
There is no reason why we cannot have a common european playing field for business and trade without a single undemocratic currency. This has been forced on everybody, and hopefully it will backfire, like the value of this monopoly money.
- It is tied to a commodity.
- A pan-European government is put into place that demands payment of taxes in Euros.
The second is the more likely outcome, and it is nightmarish to contemplate for reasons that are even more compelling than the arguments for federalism in the United States:European states do not have a unified language nor cultural history -- and even in the United States, where such disparities did not exist, the abandonment of the laboratory of the states was a major loss to humanity.
Seastead this.
Convert to the United States Dollar! You already speak our language, American English. So, Americanize your currency. It will be great. -One nation under God. So lets start acting like it.