Apparently it’s true! Mitt Romney wants to take the dollar back to the Gold Standard! After the shock and the disbelief you start wondering whether he might not be high on some kind of drug or something.
Angela Merkel has now decided to turn the EU into a political union. That is to centralise all power in Berlin… whoops sorry I meant Brussels! Now, after having made the idea of a united Europe obnoxious, though it used to be the vision and the goal of the European Ideal, she now intends to push it through on her own terms.
That is Europe should be turned into a larger, but more centralised, German Federation. Not only does she wish to retain all the benefits to Germany of the Euro (which are many and even more under crisis situations) without giving up anything in return, but she positively wants to take over the running of a politically unified Germany… I mean Europe.
Stands to reason. She is the only one who knows what to do. She is the only one who knows how economics really works and hence everyone should shrink their economies to fit her little mind. What she appears to have forgotten is that such a change of the European treaties requires unanimous support and referenda in many of the countries concerned.
What she appears not to realise is that she is pretty much hated throughout Europe precisely for her overbearing bullying and imposition of policies which ruin the countries she claims to be saving while sucking up all funds away from them and into Germany.
And that is when you start thinking whether she might not be high on some kind of drug or something too.