Thursday, February 17, 2005

EU skeptic

Fire of Liberty

Here's another reason why I dislike the whole EU construct. Instead of the EU being a body in which sovereign states come together to form a common economic and security policy, the EU has become a body that has erased a nation's sovereignty and merged it into a massive Superstate run by a gaggle of bureaucrats in Brussels. What's even worse is the fact that this Superstate has some 1,700 advisory groups to debate over the various rules and regulations that will be passed onto to the various people throughout the EU empire because the government deemed it necessary.

It's my guess that the EU leadership really believes in the power of government. Have these people not learned from their own past and the Soviet era what an all powerful superstate can do to an economy and its overall well being. They need to read more John Stewart Mill, John Locke, Henry Hazlitt, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and countless other luminaries of freedom and limited government. When you have a large and intrusive government the nation is stripped of its dynamistic spirit. It also begins to behave badly when the people lose control of their government. Yes, you can argue that the people elect MEP's to represent them in Brussels but these elected officials are far from their constituency by being in the EU capital. Even when you elect these people, the EU Commission still controls the show with their tribe of government yeomen. I think Jens-Peter Bronde, a eurosceptic MEP from Denmark, put it best when he said this about the bureaucrats in Brussels:
"We still do not know who they are, what they do, why the do it and how much each one costs."
Well put Mr. Bronde. And people really think this grouping will better the dynamic US, Get real.

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