POST MODERN GOVERNMENT - BY DEFAULT.
As Europe falls apart at the seams, recession shows a sluggish head of steam that promises a peculiar landing in the not too distant future. Germany as ever, pulled together by the redoubtable Ms. Merkel trembles at the thought of their Walter Mitty Chancellor getting involved in baling out Greece and Co. The thought of an Economic Government of Europe with as many Governments already as it has departments, sends shivers down the spines of the contributing nations like Britain, Holland and the ever watchful Scandinavians who have as yet not fully comprehended the vastness of the public expenditure and wasteful corruption linked fortunes poured into the Mediterranean States. The German Chancellor´s statements on an Economic Government of Europe sounds therefore like another excuse for new levels of indirect taxation.
Greece, Spain and Portugal share attitudes reminiscent of their old dictatorial identities and what monies have been spent to modernise them have not gone beyond the top layers of the economic society. False premises linked to fortune hunting by overjoyed industrialist has put eggs in the wrong baskets leaving difficult economic platforms ignored in favour of easy third world tourist targets wooed by sun and glossy images. Meanwhile, the die-hard unions and strident left wingers have ensured that labour costs and job deterrents have been put into place in the mistaken belief that business ventures will go ahead despite them. In fact, a policy of grossly mistaken attribution to the entrepreneur the duties of family support that the very Governments appears to avoid at all cost. All three countries have deflected investment away from production and fed the multinationals at the expense of the genuine background foundations of the small and medium sized companies.
Labour legislation backed by aggressive runaway taxation and background judicial teeth have ensured, as it did in Argentina that entrepreneurial talent and monies have flee to better shores.
Contributors taken for granted.
A total lack of credit given to the genuine ruling and contributing members of the European community, by the media of these countries and a self congratulatory lever put in its place has resulted in the blame for failure being attributed to the European Union. It is a well known international secret that without the Union, these defaulting countries would have been where they always were – in strict poverty and military intervention in the wings.The blame however rests squarely on the wanton abuse of member funds which have not only increased the burden of taxation in the upper States but provided opportunities for impractical usage of such funds, for want of use, of the dreaded word corruption. The pigeons have now come home to roost and there is no welcoming party. Ms. Merkel has to be extremely careful this time in allowing her eternal optimism to sink the contributing members into further debt. Taking into account that what should have been a low percentage based dragnet of a tax – the much disliked intrusive VAT, is now racing towards the 20% mark. This outrageous marker of State audacity is disastrously close to petrifying growth and reminding all European citizens that they are no longer free agents within their fiscal lives, but partners of overcommitted, States. Hardly a heritage for a succeeding generation.
Enthusiasm rather than foresight
The other well kept open secret is that Germany courts France with a campness that smacks of patronage which is not shared by countries like Britain who in this case, understandably, has a growing number of citizens wary of the association. It is no laughing matter to see the potential threat to the value of the Euro which loosely studied measures led by such political lobbies could unleash. Such moves could plunge all members, including Germany, into a pit from which only Providence could stop them from falling as the new, hardly competent, members struggle to perform in this void. The political implications, with the power struggles now emerging with depressing clarity in the outer fringes of Europe, are daunting. China and Russia look on and perhaps as a result, Uncle Sam will begin to look on with fresh sympathy if only to keep its back clear of the flack. The development therefore, of a completely fresh approach with a declaration of war on member state labour manipulation, unfair demands and restrictions that deny economic growth by sheer ignorance, is the only order of the day. Additionally, the ruthless pruning of the social services by the very Governments which created them, with a cost efficiency comb is in the public mind, despite the reckless Union noises.
Party politics have now reached a crossroad in public management which is reflected in the gradually tailing off of electoral support. Social psychological health has never been so low and the picture international youth is getting, deprives them of the will to involve themselves in or perhaps even understand this morasse. A new social order therefore has to emerge with a light at the end of that tunnel which is plainly visible from the start. Old traditions, values and cultural elitism have to change their colours. Perhaps for the first time in centuries political challenges should be the welfare of the people in every corner of the world instead of the divisive tactics that have clouded real issues. Whilst Science and knowledge is laudable and interesting it cannot be placed above simple human values. It is no coincidence that Green is the colour of hope and progressively so much to the chagrin of those who only think in terms of mathematics. Relatively common issues like family needs, social opportunities, constructive entertainment and disciplined tutelage should replace the ridiculous pursuit of profit margins for their own sake as standard yardsticks of success. The stock market phobias now manipulated by the few with the power to milk it at the expense of the rest creates visions of carrot driven chariots forever running round racetracks as an excuse for living. The time, is for the world Governments to sit down and remind each other that humanity is now at risk and that somehow, civilisation and the very fabric of life has been ignored to the point of disintegration. Schumacher was quite right, small IS beautiful. Ms. Merkel should stop putting lids on covers and let each member state choose their own destinies, with their own efforts and money, to enable the rest to work together towards higher, more meaningful, things.
Michael Mifsud was a Parliamentary correspondentage at 15. Royal touring journalist and Publisher Britain´s first trade journal for drivers.Millionaire businessman, hotelier, restauranteur and TV presenter, he contributed to the Dan Brown base book The.Holy Blood and Holy Grail, The Messianic Legacy and Sword and the Grail. TV. Author of the highly rated book "Al Andalus - a Trail of Discovery - Amazon" . Member of the Council of Elders of the modern Order of Knights Templar - Versailles 1705. Freeman of the City of London and Orders of Merit of Poland, Afghanistan and Serbia. Fights for Animal rights on par with humans.
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