Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Fundamental Flaw of United Europe Exposed in Finns v. Portugese

I said the Germans are likely casting about for a Chris Christie type politician or a Tea Party type movement of their own as anger for having to bail out dead-beat losers like the Greeks and the Portugese. They probably are and if European fiscal rectitude is to have any legs it will have to have a strong German component, but that doesn't mean the vanguard has to be German. I should have called this, because there are even more strait-laced, impeccably fiscally prudent folks out there than the Germans...the Scandinavians. Finland, notably, has been caterwauling about having to pony up cash for the EU bailout mechanism, and now it looks like Finnish politics is going to lead the way. Makes sense, just as they are located on the extreme opposite ends of Europe, you couldn't imagine a people and culture more different despite being lumped under the same umbrella - Europeans - as the Finnish and the Portugese. Alas, that has always been the fatal flaw of European Union and now that flaw is unavoidably exposed.

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