tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post6061464028750046680..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: That Slippery Slope Keeps On TiltingSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-1820854810611768322010-12-16T20:56:45.430-05:002010-12-16T20:56:45.430-05:00Thanks for the input from over there. We can watc...Thanks for the input from over there. We can watch, but can't see it as closely as you do. <br /><br />FWIW, and in case you signed up to see responses, I know they've dedicated 70 years to the project, but I don't think they can stop the collapse. They simply need more money than exists in the EU. I think the EU collapses, just like I think the US does. I suppose it's possible that the EU gets "bought" by someone else, like possibly China or Russia. I'm not sure why they'd want to. <br /><br />I think our Federal Reserve goes away: this is scary because it seems to me you can argue that the US Government is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Federal Reserve Bank. The Fed is arguably one of the two or three richest companies in the world, and they won't go down easily or painlessly - for us. I understand that, at the end of the Weimar Republic, they executed bankers. I can see that happening again.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-38104524469575208512010-12-16T19:30:53.373-05:002010-12-16T19:30:53.373-05:00My own view is that the Euro Soviet will not "...My own view is that the Euro Soviet will not "die" so easily.<br /><br />These people have dedicated the past 70 years to the project ... they ain't gonna quit. <br /><br />There have been recent calls for greater "integration". That is, a single, central or Federal Government; the idea is that this will cure all ills. Of course, there will be the need for massive redistribution of wealth; a great "levelling-down". <br /><br />It is perfectly possible that there will be a sudden power-grab, I think. The reasoning will be that most beloved of the Socialists - "the Common Good". <br /><br />If Cameron and Clegg decide to throw in their lot with the Euro-Federalists, who will stop them? Only a small minority of Brits is politicised ... and very often that politics is biased towards more Socialism/Fascism. (tbh, I'm not sure whether we are becoming Fascist or Socialist. But, we surely are becoming more Authoritarian - just like you guys.)<br /><br />We desperately need a really good Civil War ... the one we should have had around 1790.bogbeaglenoreply@blogger.com