Vaclav Klaus: Obama, Sarkozy And Mekel Are Scaremongers

In an opinion piece for the liberal daily Mladá Fronta Dnes, Czech President Václav Klaus criticises the attempts to solve the global crisis with regulations and stimulus packages:

"Politicians have never been as far removed from serving the interests of the citizens as they are today. … I don't intend to lecture Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, or German Chancellor Angela Merkel on how to revive their national economies in the short-term, but I'm convinced that the solution to today's problems cannot lie in pumping money into the economy which our children and grandchildren will have to repay for many decades to come.
This policy of [John Maynard] Keynes has never worked. ... We should concentrate on trying to rid the economy of all those factors that artificially slow it down: bureaucracy, an overblown welfare state, high taxes and insurances, rigid labour laws, the ambitions of environmental activists and cumbersome institutions whose official stamp the economy is forced to wait for.
… The biggest mistake now would be to increase regulation. And above all: politicians should avoid intensifying the panic with their dramatic gestures and worried faces."

Translated from Ziare.com by TranssylvaniaPhoenix

Last February, Vaclav Klaus compared the supporters of European integration with the Communist Party activists from the Soviet era.
This man has too much common sense for the American and European libs.
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Vaclav Klaus: EU Is Becoming A Soviet Union Look-Alike

Czech President Vaclav Klaus is comparing hard-core supporters of European integration with the Communist Party activists form the Soviet era.



The Czech Republic is currently at the helm of the rotating Presidency of the EU , but this didn't stopped Klaus to speak up his ming and tell the Euro-parlamentarians they are interfering too much in other peoples lives and their personal decisions.

"Another treaty aimed to prop up the failing the EU institutions would make things even worse", Klaus said. "The theory that there is only one possible and correct alternative to the future, that of a total integration is false"

President Klaus continued: " Not a very long time ago, in our part of Europe we used to live in a political system that didn't allowed social alternatives and any form of political opposition. Here in the EU Parliament there isn't anything but one alternative and those who dare to think about and propose other options are singled out and chastised as enemies"



Translated from Ziare.com by Transsylvania Phoenix