"Eurocrats, however, have insisted on taking Italy and Greece’s problems and making them everyone else’s" - Granite Grok

“Eurocrats, however, have insisted on taking Italy and Greece’s problems and making them everyone else’s”

The post from where the above came from is about the European Euro mess – first Greece, now Portugal and Italy are on the brink (with Ireland having already taken its fiscal medicine).  In all cases, the pols there did what the Dems (and Repubs to a bit lesser degree) have done for decades – used other peoples money to achieve fame, notoriety, and votes

Thanks to the "Euro Union" where the currency is one but the political (and fiscal) outlooks are multiples, Germany’s taxpayers have already shelled out billions of euros to rescue the idea of the euro being a uniter (the Greeks merely being the stage on which the Eurocrats are pontificating "we are one – we MUST stay as one or bad things will happen" even as that ‘bad thing’ is already in process).  But I digress.  Look at that line again:

Eurocrats, however, have insisted on taking Italy and Greece’s problems and making them everyone else’s

The thought that immediately ran through my mind was "But doesn’t the Left ALWAYS do that – gather the lemmings together?"

Not every problem has a solution (even though the Left believes there is – or at least, the Political Class does; at a minimum, the Political Class or thinks it has to "do something" about a problem).  Neither does every problem needs everyone’s attention.  Let me pile on – not every problem requires we to be in "all for one mode".

WHY does the Left believe that every problem (for when there really is a problem) can only be solved with everyone’s action?  Why does the Left believe that making a probelm everyone elses problem will actually involve / get everyone active about it?

The second thought was:

"WHY does the Left always DEMAND and FORCE everyone to be included AND be active about it (thoughts of the old Soviet joke roil through my head "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us")"?

Sure, there are problems that the solution domain requires an all hands on deck (e.g., segregation, WW II, et al).  The Euro problem (once again, a solution being proposed to a crisis that the groundwork for that crisis was originally caused by Government / Political Class; see here).

The technical world has undergone a tremendous amount of decentralization – I remember the days when mainframes were the only game in town – heck, I WORKED on them!  Then mini-computers arrived at a cheaper price and allowed more people to do their work outside of the established and centralized authorities.  Soon after, personal computers ate the mini’s lunch and pushed the decentralization further downward and outward.  Sure, technically there is a need for such a beast still – as in needing a system robust enough to handle reserving you a comfy useable the rack seat on <insert hated airline name here> along with millions of others at the same millisecond. 

Yet, while that idea of decentralization was incorporated into our Constitution (i.e., those radical Framers beat the computer techies to it politically with Federalism), it is the Left that always wishes to act like the old style mainframes of yore. 

The TEA Party understands this, and rightfully wishes to progress forward back to that radical idea that was so far ahead of its time.  The Left’s version of progress is nothing more than a warmed over, re-created version of a monarchy with an arisitcratic set of nobel courtiers (er, isn’t that what we have now in Obama, and which we fought a war to get rid of? 

Be wary of the Left – not only are they afraid to do things on their own, but they will do anything to ensure that you have join them in it; preferably willingly but they will make sure you’ll be with them, like it or not.

Freedom to do as *I* want?  Plays no role in their outlook….in their world, their "all"  always trumps your "one".

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