Peroxidesays...

"And I don’t have much of a formal education – which is good, because it means I can actually read and write. But it also means I don’t have a great deal of what you might call actual knowledge.

However, if you pressed me, I’d say the purpose of life is joy in the present moment, and anyone who tells you different is a lying conniving asshole."

- from his website.

Why not share that moment with others?

gharksays...

He has some pretty big holes in his arguments here, Amaerica is peachy because it has a constitution? He does make some good points though, it will be interesting to see how the whole bailout issue pans out.

hpqpsays...

Comedic hyperbole aside, he makes some very salient points about the lack of democracy in the EU. Even in Switzerland, which has refused to join the EU and has a certain history of direct democracy, the laws of the EU are being bullied onto the people by the political class with the endless threat of the EU cutting off its economical agreements, a tactic which practically boils down to coercion. A recent example is the imposition of the ECJ's "Cassis de Dijon" principle, the result of which is a general lowering of regulatory standards in the products Swiss people will find in their supermarkets. It's not surprising that a "government" that was created as an economic entity seems mostly interested in protecting/enlarging the "freedom" of corporations to make more money while sidestepping the pesky voice of the citizens.

edit: and then people wonder why the right-wing, xenophobic party has been steadily gaining support, while they were (and are) the only ones consistently against joining the EU.

(@Peroxide Your point being? You do know he's a comedian I hope)

DerHasisttotsays...

Uargh... nooooo...... Germany doesn't want the Euro because of some guilt or whatever. As far as I can tell we want the Euro because we've got the second biggest export-economy in the world and are surrounded by our biggest buyers. It is in germany's best economic interest to keep the single currency going. Also, we really like all you guyz in se Europe. Buy our stuff.

Having listened ten seconds more: Dude is full of shit. "Supranational political dictatorship"? "Harmonise out of existence national identities"? "soviet socialist republics"?

And for typical britishness: Mentioning Germany invading Poland and that the British king against whom the Americas rebelled as being German. Which has nothing to do with anything.

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