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"We
have to explain Europe better!"
EU
critics can only smile about this statement. Because an
honest education could hardly survive the EU.
Is the EU
lobby serious or is it just a bad joke once again? You can
not really believe that a good education work would serve
the image of the EU!
An honest
education would be exactly the wrong way!
I
am convinced that the more the citizen deals with the
effects of the European Union, the more he distances himself
from this crazy idea.
In order to divert attention from the fatal consequences of
the EU, there is no need for enlightenment, but massive
propaganda or a brainwashing-like, medial persistent
irrigation. But with this kind of national dumbing down, the
EU lobby knows its way around, because she can look back on
50 years of practical experience.
Let's pick
out six key features to make it clear that an open EU debate
can only hurt.
1.
The Euro experiment has failed fundamentally!
Neutral
experts have warned loudly before the introduction of
the euro - and dismissed smart governments from the outset
thankfully.
Logically, a single currency can not work in a completely
inhomogeneous economic area with very different wages,
taxes, languages, cultures, living standards,
etc.!
The result
of the euro, against which better knowledge is still
convulsively maintained:
1.
States must be saved with gigantic debt relief.
2.
With a historically unprecedented cheap money glut, time
must be bought to delay the impending economic collapse
again and again.
3.
Freshly generated ECB money is needed to buy the sovereign
bonds of over-indebted euro countries.
4.
A forced zero-interest-rate policy secretly expropriates the
savers, perverts the market economy and mocks the
system of private old-age provision.
In the
meantime, the Italian government is seriously considering
paying its banks ¤ 360 billion in bad loans.
The result could be a great cycle: Private banks lend
themselves to high-risk loans at low interest rates (to
stimulate the economy), shaky scrap papers are later taken
over by the state special fund - and the uncertain
government bonds, in turn, are bought by the ECB. What a
brilliant idea ...
2.
The Schengen Agreement has failed!
Unprejudiced
politicians stir up unfounded fears about the failure of the
Schengen Agreement (abolition of EU internal borders). And
also from the economy is warned with horror scenarios before
a supposed catastrophe and cost avalanche.
However, when the
Schengen Agreement did not
exist
(before 1985), most
of the Schengen states were far better off than they are
today
- even real wages and pensions were higher.
The Schengen Agreement is proving to be a very effective
wage dumping system in practice. The competition with
the low-wage countries in Eastern Europe intensifies when
annoying border controls and customs duties are
eliminated.
Meanwhile,
even long-established forwarding companies suffer (despite
the multiplication of transport volumes) under the unnatural
boom. They often have to trick in order to survive at all
(for example, hire cheap drivers from Eastern
Europe).
Beneficiaries
of the Schengen Agreement are predominantly
corporations that can outsource production steps more
favorably, speculators who need limitless "freedom"
for their business, tax evaders who use tax havens or
tariffs or VAT * save, refugees who uncontrolled
(sometimes multiple) in the countries of their choice
Applying for asylum, criminals (auditors, burglars
and thieves, traffickers), etc.
By
contrast, the ridiculous relief of ordinary citizens
(tourists or commuters), who no longer have to identify at
the border, hardly matters.
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The
number of EU critics is constantly
growing.
Because the schönfärberische
Dauerberieselungs propaganda does not pull!
Because people feel the decades-long decline in
Western Europe.
Because they can no longer hear the stupid
ramblings of a prosperous, peace-building,
denationalized superpower.
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3.
Even the healings peace patter turns out to be a
farce!
In solidarity with the EU, Germany now has to order
thousands of soldiers into the crisis regions of the
world.
The EU has not
made peace in the EU any safer!
Even
the current conflict in Ukraine would probably not have set
in without the EU (because there would have been no split in
Ukrainian society and no EU accession aspirations).
The dominance of the global markets, the free trade zones,
the EU and the omnipotence of corporations and financial
jugglers certainly does not have a peacemaking effect. It
transforms the world into a chaotic, uncontrollable powder
keg.
4.
The escalating EU bureaucracy costs huge sums of
money!
It soon seems that the EU was only created to bring
regulations to the economy. It is impossible to imagine what
this flood of laws (more than 80,000 pages) will do to
anything or cause costs.
The
national governments are allowed to pay for the Brussels
dictates and are often overburdened with their
implementation. Again and again, national laws have to be
revised or adjusted later.
The
constitutional state degenerates to the state of
appeal.
Anyone who has money or a strong lobby can first of all use
the national authorities, if need be, even intervene in the
Federal Constitutional Court and even call the European
Court of Justice in an emergency.
For example, clear laws over and over again can be
undermined in years of proceedings, and our constitution
becomes a plaything for party and lobby interests - morality
and common sense often fall by the wayside.
5.
Subsidy policy versus market
economy
A subsidy policy is similar to the planned economy! It is no
longer the market that decides, but the politician or the
bureaucrat.
In EU agriculture, this nonsense is particularly clear. Most
German farmers already had to give up their farms owned by
the family since generations because of the EU subsidy
policy.
It would be so
easy to counteract the Höfesterben and mass animal
husbandry!
With
high import duties and guaranteed prices for agricultural
products (and a simple quota price regulation), German
farmers could be guaranteed a decent living.
But while Hartz IV recipients in Germany have a strong
lobby, a lush "subsistence level" is guaranteed, our farmers
can see how they cope with ruinous milk, meat and grain
prices.
Without
the EU, the German farmers would definitely be better off,
our country could save tens of billions of euros in
counterfeiting subsidies and, for the most part, feed itself
independently (in the event of catastrophes and global crop
failures, it would not depend on the grace of other
states).
6.
The duty-free EU can not protect national
economies!
Without customs barriers, producers (with the exception of
global players) are vulnerable to foreign dumping
competition.
For example, how should a textile industry survive when
manufacturers have the opportunity to have their expensive
clothes made for low-cost in low-wage countries (without
fear of import tariffs). Should the Germans, Greeks, French,
Italians, etc. also work for an hourly wage of 30 cents,
just like the exploited in Bangladesh or Vietnam?
Germany's
industry has shrunk in the course of tariff freedom to a few
exemplary branches (auto, mechanical engineering, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals). But here, too, things are crumbling,
production parts are increasingly being outsourced, and
vertical integration is declining.
Many industries with a world-wide reputation virtually no
longer exist or only in niche areas and exceptional cases.
Whether mobile phones, computers, TV sets, office machines,
clothes, shoes, furniture, solar systems, household goods or
whatever - most consumer goods are meanwhile manufactured
abroad.
The
EU Nagativliste could continue for
hours!
But the six examples listed already provide sufficient
insight. If someone says "we have to explain Europe better
to increase acceptance.", Then he can only mean the
opposite.
For the EU
is in my opinion only to keep about cunning propaganda,
anti-democratic machinations and consistent national
stupidity.
Why is
there such a strong EU lobby?
With
the friendly reports in the media you should not mistake who
or what is behind it all.
Thousands of people work directly for the EU - in the
European headquarters or national parliaments. They
usually receive a fabulously good salary (at the expense
of the general public). Logical that these people do not
want to shake the EU status.
Likewise,
there are tens of thousands of lobbyists (15,000 in
Brussels alone) who are doing well for their association,
industry or business. These people, too, usually get
chunky.
Then there
are many other indirect beneficiaries. Of course, when the
corporate leaders of the victorious Gobal players (who have
largely flattened their competition over time) persuade
their employees and the public that the sales success is due
to the EU and to duty-free trade.
These
corporate workforces (automotive and mechanical engineering,
chemicals, pharmaceuticals) are conscious that they owe the
EU higher incomes and hefty bonuses.
No wonder, then, that this privileged army of millions
vehemently defends its privileges and pretends that the
general public benefits from the EU (which is far from being
the case).
Ergo:
A loud,
privileged minority dominates the public
debate.
However, the vast majority, the losers in European and
global tariff dumping (the mid-sized companies struggling
for their existence, as well as billions of unemployed and
low-paid workers worldwide), are barely noticed.
"There
is no problem that Germany alone can solve"
When
I last heard this sentence in a talk show (I think it was
with Maischberger), I almost fell down with laughter from my
chair. With what innocent mine can seasoned politicians
spread only such silly theses?
A
sovereign state such as Germany (but above all Greece,
Italy, Spain, etc.) can react much better and more quickly
to the major problems mentioned (unemployment, environmental
protection, migration).
The adventurous
high mass unemployment in the
EU
results essentially from the duty-free trade (which I
explained in more detail above) and the failed
euro-politics.
Sustainable
environmental protection
has failed for decades due to the disunity of the 28 member
states and the murderous competitive situation (if domestic
economies were protected by tariffs, most states could
afford better environmental protection).
And as far as
migrant migration
is concerned, if Europe had functioning national state
borders instead of the irrational Schengen Agreement (as is
customary worldwide), these problems would not have
arisen.
The
superstition of the benefits of export
dependence
Especially in Germany, people are still trying to persuade
the population that our wealth is based on export success.
This old mistaken belief dogmatizes political thinking and
leads to serious wrong decisions (explains the persistent
wage decline since 1980).
What is
rarely considered: A high export also requires a high import
quota. However, a superfluous international trade does not
create additional jobs and is
basically counterproductive
and harmful to the environment.
There are
also disadvantages resulting from global wage and tax
competition. And: A high dependence on exports makes a state
blackmailable, the plaything of the world economy and the
global financial system.
Whoever
claims that without a high export quota, there can be no
wealth, does not know what he says. Even from the logic of
such a theory of wealth is foolish.
Assuming
that there were only one habitable land (for example
Germany, France, the USA or China) and all around there were
only deserts and oceans - would high wealth be impossible in
the absence of world trade? Hardly likely!
* In the mirror issue 15/2016 is described in detail how
clever online retailers operate unabashedly carousels. Goods
are moved through several stations in foreign EU countries
and then bought back tax-adjusted. Only then can some
Billigheimer consistently lead the price search engines
(sell goods under purchase price).Thanks to Schengen
agreements, medium-sized stationary retailers and even
reputable online retailers hardly have a chance of survival
in the long term with well comparable technical branded
products. They are basically too expensive.
Excuse
me!
There is no equality of opportunity - even when it comes to
forming opinions. While the capital (corporations,
speculators, lobbyists, media, governments) can afford the
best translators, I have to settle for a simple language
program for financial reasons. I hope, however, that the
text is nevertheless reasonably understandable and that no
major mistakes have occurred. Thank you for your
understanding.
Manfred
Julius Müller, 24939 Flensburg (Flensburg has approx.
90,000 inhabitants and lies on the German-Danish
border)
Background
& Analysis:
A
list of the currently available translations into English
can be found here.
Unpopular
truths from Germany. The capitalist world by no means
functions in the way that the human being is brainwashed.
The hottest political taboo topics. The tough fight against
false doctrines and prejudices.
Background
and analysis:
The
capitalist empowerment law
Brainwashing:
"We want an open Europe!"
Should
the EU become a political union, new problems
arise!
In
Germany wages have been falling since 1980.
Why?
Germany:
The brazen proclamation of skills
shortage!
The
rule of law becomes a laughing
stock
Globalization:
the ignorance of the facts
How
much democracy can withstand the
EU?
No
more export dependency!
The
political and economic consequences of an
brexit
An
analytical consideration from German
view.
"We
have to explain Europe
better!"
When
will the Dexit? (the withdrawal of Germany from the
EU)
Impressum
©
Manfred Julius Müller, Flensburg, April 2016
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