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German sharpshooter targets bureaucrats | UniversityPost
The Brussels bureaucracy is an authority that claims to want the best for us, he said.

»But instead it sees us as helpless minors without consent, as subjects that have to be convinced,« he said in his acceptance speech - a biting satire against the attempts by eurocrats to sidetrack a better European democracy.

»Every criticism of European institutions is conceived by these people as somehow anti-European,« Enzensberger said.



If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Feb 2nd, 2010 at 06:53:19 PM EST
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I already submitted a deconstruction of his referendum crap to the moderation queue.

[Full disclosure: I occasionally do some freelance accounting work for these guys (last year I should've charged percentages - I found € 250.000 that they were being scammed out of by the upper management - we got € 150.000 of them back ;-P).]

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Feb 2nd, 2010 at 06:57:57 PM EST
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Enzensberger seems to have progressing dementia... this is the same guy who equated Saddam with Hitler (in Germany!)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 09:32:30 AM EST
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