SHOCKING REVELATION!: Centralized government doesn’t work

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There’s trouble brewing in EU. Apparently Ireland voted ‘no’ on the Lisbon Treaty which was to be the new constitution of the European Union. I say good. Anything that throws a wrench in the gears of the EU is fine with me. It’s just a another layer of government that is completely unnecessary. The more centralized the government becomes, the less efficient it becomes. The above article describes a few of these flaws:

The flaws include the disgraceful Common Agriculture Policy, fraudulent spending, the bureaucracy of the executive Commission, impenetrable decision-making and zeal for harmonising uncecessary things. Some aspects are absurd, such as the way that European Parliament is still forced (by France) to hold its plenary sessions in Strasbourg while it does most of its work in its expensive headquarters in Brussels.

The Irish voters understood that some bureaucrats in an entirely different country had no idea how to deal with Ireland’s issues. It is much like the UN’s relationship to the United States. How do some bureaucrats on the other side of the world have the right to tell me how to live my life? And for that matter, how do bureaucrats on the other side of the country in Washington D.C. have any right to run my life? Centralized government doesn’t work. Our brothers and sisters across the pond might be starting to realize this as the article states, “People no longer know what Europe is for.”

~ by DontTreadOnMike on June 16, 2008.