OK, I'm done with my Euro talk. But don't complain to me when you wake up in a totalitarian police state one morning just like in the novel 1984 :)
Once the exchange rate between the dolar and the euro turn around I'm going to visit Europe. I've always wanted to visit England and have never got the chance. I don't think my wife would let me go to the Netherlands though :(
Back on topic, I got to say wow to Vaclav Klaus. Christ he must have big balls to get up and say the things he says. I can't imagine how much it made the other delegates cringe. EU union compared to the soviet union? Holy fuck I can't beleive he would say that.
But I can understand though what he is saying. He is not willing to cede Czech parilmentary power to the EU. The Czechs spent 40 years under Soviet rule with a local government merely a puppet of Russia. A centralized European government to him is essentialy the same thing, the Czech people are once again ruled from abroad.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
