Ed Weick wrote:
Almost everything you read about the EU these days suggests a lot of
disenchantment with the leadership and a fear of Turks and Polish
plumbers. The EU is a grand idea, but grand ideas don't always put
bread on the table or protect your special interests.
[snip]
I agree that the EU is "a grand idea". I am reminded of
a certain definition of Europe:
"The struggle against everything whose only claim to
dignity is its materiality, to refuse to be merely
a passive and determined element in the order of Creation this
seems to me the primordial virtue which transformed
an Asian peninsula into Europe" - Carlo Schmid
Perhaps no idea is grand enough to
withstand the withering, relentless assault of The New American Dream of
universal free-fall economic devolution aka deregulated free
or at least all-consuming markets.
In any case, even if the Euro banknotes are not as esthetically
appealing as some of the currency they replaced, the U.S. Treasury
would, I think, do well to try to imitate them. America's
recent bank notes look like something seen thru a
distorting lens. Our old banknote designs has no
esthetic merit, but at least all the parts of the design were
[size-wise] in a kind of balance.
<http://www.ellopos.net/politics/eu_schmid.html>
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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