Before this intelligent humour here causes the first people laughing themselves to death, you may want to attempt understanding what that article actually is after.
And for you, Penguin, speaking German, I once again recommend Christoph Braunschweig's ""wohlfahrtsstaat leb wohl" -
LINK -and/or "Die demokratische Krankheit" -
LINK -. Coming from a direction completely unsuspicious of being Christian-fundamentalist, his arguments are that of an empirist knowing the real world data by his profession. I especially recommend to you his chapters about the early roots of today's totalitarian debt regime as to be found in - the era of and around the French revolution indeed. If you label the quoted passage as "garbage", then you either do not know that chapter of history too well, or you have an even greater left-leaning spin than I am so far was aware of. The name to watch out for, is Rousseau, of course. Without Rousseau, there would have been no basis for Marx to build on. Needless to say that Rousseau was in bitter opposition to three other of the outstanding French minds of that era - Montesquieu, Montaigne and Voltaire.
There is a reason why our states de facto are bankrupt, and can delay the declaration of insolvency only by using cheating, betraying, devaluing money, and lying - at the cost of constantly increasing the damage that finally will fall on us like Loki's hammer.
These past ten days will be a significant mark in the poor history of the Euro. First the Swiss spit the ECB in its face and recalled that they were a sovereign people not needing to accept over one billion in own damages every day just to help keeping this dead corpus alive (nice comment by a Swiss in German apper Die Welt here:
LINK). Then former Golden Sacks baron Mario Draghi officially declared the collective responsibility of all for the mismanagement and debts-raising by some, and declared the remains of the Euro-treaty as dead and done. And third, today the Greek no doubt will vote in a far-left leaning government that already has announced it wants to once again betray its creditors, and that can and will serve for according political course-plotting in Spain, Italy, and France.
But let the dream live! :yeah: Credit from nothing, and money for free! I want, therefore I have claim!
Or as one of the customers at that Amazon site I linked above, quotes Frédéric Bastiat:
"L'État, c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s’efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde." - The state is the great fiction according to which everybody tries to live at the expense of somebody else. F. Bastiat: L'État. Journal des débats, n° du 25 septembre 1848.
