The EU is heading towards the nightmare society envisioned by Ayn Rand in 'Atlas Shrugged'

Many thanks to Muffled Vociferations Blog for alerting me to Vaclav Klaus's recent speech in South America, linked here, from which comes this quote:

The second reason for the European economic problem is the quality, productiveness and efficiency of its economic and social system. A seemingly friendly and non-demanding, excessively paternalistic and, as a consequence, not sufficiently productive economic and social system, called “die soziale Markwirtschaft” (or social-democratism), dominates in Europe. This system with its generous social benefits weakened motivation, shortened working hours and life employment, prolonged years of studying, diminished the supply of labour (both at macrolevel and structurally), created bottlenecks and shortages.

Europeans prefer leisure to performance, security to risk-taking, paternalism to free markets, collectivism (group entitlements) to individualism. They have always been more risk-averse than Americans but the difference continues to grow. Also freedom seems to have a very low priority there. It seems that Europeans are not interested in capitalism and free markets and that they do not understand that their today’s behavior undermines the very institutions that made their past success possible. They are eager to very intensively defend their non-economic freedoms, or better to say the easiness, looseness, laxity and permissiveness of modern, or perhaps post-modern European society, but when it comes to their economic freedoms, they are quite indifferent.

The inefficiency and unsustainability of this system was later “reinforced” by the gradual acceptance of green ideology, of environmentalism. This process started in the 1970s, but reached its peak, and its economic devastating effects now, in the era of global warming (or climate change) alarmism.

Another good discussion of the problems in Portugal and Spain comes from Michael Jennings on Samizdata, linked here, with a very pertinent closing sentence. Or as Ayn Rand said in her book:

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Irish stand fast on June deadline for Lisbon safeguards.

The report was in yesterday's Irish Times, linked here.

Interview with President Vaclav Klaus

The Sunday Times has a good interview with the Czech President currently holding the EU rotating Presidency, worth reading as this man presently appears to be the sole leader on the European Continent who has a care for the democratic and individual liberties of more than 500 million citizents presently threatened with the totalitarian authoritarianism of the Lisbon Treaty.

Read it from this link.

President Klaus meets Independence/Democracy Group

The report of a significant meeting is linked here.

Censorship of EuroParl TV - A symptom of oppression

The report of the speech by Czech President Vaclav Klaus as being broadcast by the EuroParl TV propaganda chain has been heavily cut and censored (see here). While the full speech is not yet available on YouTube, sections, uncut by the EU corporatist totalitarians, are becoming available and one such is below:



Contrary to statements from some supporting the anti-democratic EU that President Klaus's Prime Minister is opposed to the statements made in Parliament the report from EUBusiness linked here, proves that in fact he agrees with every sentence.

Watch through to the end of the clip to see the President of this dreadful institution, Hans Gert-Poettering boast that they now control 75 per cent of legislation within the 27 member state EU. What a dreadful statement on the complacency of the EU electorate towards their own democratic rights! Worse he then spits out that with Lisbon this will increase to "nearly 100 per cent of cases" Now the truth is proclaimed!

Klaus at the EU Parliament

The EU version of his critical address to the plenary session of the assembled fat pigs is here.

A US comment headlined EU Legitimacy Disintegrating is here.