One of the European parliament's most influential members, the German Christian Democrat Elmar Brok, has declared that Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the credit ratings of nine eurozone member states is part of a "currency war" being waged by the United States against the euro and Europe itself.Riiiight. All because of that. Nothing to do with spending beyond your limits and bankrupting your nations. Nevermind the fact that S&P downgraded the US last year.
Any political party with the word "Christian" in its name strikes me as less than purely objective. Can you image the partisan outrage if there were a dominant "Christian" political party in the USA???
Don't worry, the 'Christian Democrats' have thoroughly emasculated the religious part of 'Christian' in their name. I think they used garden shears...
| They're what Germans think of as 'center-right'. Angela Merkel's party. |
Declared you too irresponsible to invest in you mean. We kinda want our money back with gain. The whole reason behind investing, yes?
He conveniently forgets that the Euro rating agencies aren't exactly tossing rose petals in front of him and his colleagues...
Asked whether he meant that the United States is "waging financial war" on Europe, Brok specified, "Certain forces in the USA, in particular in the world of finance. It is evident that their one and only aim is in this way to promote Anglo-Saxon interests at Europe's cost." "They want to shatter the eurozone, in order to make money," he added.
Ah yes, the Brits bailed on your plan for Eurodomination, too, didn't they?
Ev'ryone knows the Brits are our junior partners in all doings...
A member of the European Parliament since 1980, Brok is presently the foreign affairs spokesperson of the parliamentary group of the European People's Party (EPP). The EPP, which includes the German Christian Democrats, has the largest group of deputies in the parliament. Brok was previously, from 1999 to 2007, chair of the parliament's foreign affairs committee. According to EUobserver, he is expected to reclaim the latter post when committee chairs are reshuffled next week. The editors of Die Welt emphasize that he "is known as an excellent connoisseur of the USA."
Excellent connoisseur of bullshit propaganda, maybe.