NuEM posted:
Testerion posted:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/25/angela-merkel-greece-financial-meltdown
She calls for more transfer of power from individual countries to centralized EU parliament while rest of the Europe wants to trash the whole concept already!
This is often brought up as a problem, but really what does it mean. The people are still the sovereign. With more power to the parliament even more so than now. Okay, it adds another layer. But with the same argument you might as well question the existence of Finland and demand all power be moved to regional or local levels.
See, here is how this would evolve. The countries of the EU would now be called EU States. There would be one guy at the head called something like a President. The "Parliament" would then be divided into two groups. One big group called the House, and one smaller group called the Senate. Then they would create a 3rd Judicial branch made up strictly of people they pick to decide whether or not the things they pass as law would be legal or not.
Once this is done, there would be a movement toward a two party system of "conservatives" and "liberals" who will need a lot of money to run against each other. Don't worry, you may think two is not a lot to choose from, but it is, really. Two is all you need to get the full spectrum of ideas.
Once this is done corporate person-hood will become law and your politicians will accept bribes from those corpersons in the form of campaign contributions. If the elected officials want to stay in office (have enough money to) they will pass laws favorable to the corpersons which will allow them to squeeze other countries for all of their resources on the threat of war.
You too, can become a world superpower in a few easy steps. All you have to be willing to do is crap on the many for the gain of the few!
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