The American Spectator

Print Email

Text Size

Reader Mail

(Page 3 of 3)

POPULAR POLITICS
Re: Doug Bandow's Brezhnev in Dublin:

The Europe proposed by Lisbon is that of an "empire" according to a former EU President. We have no reason to doubt him on this.

The new weighting of the voting system, both in the Council of Ministers, and the EU parliament, will have increased by half for Germany and by a quarter each for France, Italy and the UK. This is due on the face of it to their "large populations," rather than their imperial pasts. Ireland's weight is being reduced from 2 percent to 0.8 percent. Other EU member states with small populations (and a history of being victims of the former group's imperial shenanigans) include Malta, Cyprus, Slovakia, The Czech Republic, the Balkan states, and the Baltic three. All have their voting rights reduced to irrelevance.

From an imperial perspective it finally looks as if the usual suspects are getting the band back together.

However the pièce de résistance has to be reserved for Turkey. When it inevitably joins the club it will have the largest weighting of all, given its rapidly rising population. Currently it's approaching that of Germany and, according to UN statistics,  will overtake that country in five years.

The empire that springs to mind is Ottoman rather than Wilhelmine.
-- Paul Cadier

MONEY ALWAYS WINS
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Who Will Tell Michael J. Fox He Needs to Die?:

I believe the way the new health plan will be
If you have the money you can pay and still get
What you want or need

Which will leave all of us poor/average
out and we will be the ones to go home and die

After all money always wins
--Brenda Lawson