If the ballot can’t change anything all that remains is the
bullet         The mask slips: the real reason for insisting on
budget discipline  Politicians and socalled objective media both
have been pushing hard the idea that the Euro crisis can only be
solved by spending cuts and spending discipline, but luckily
there’s the Washington Post to spell out the real reasons behind
this:   It has nothing to do with solving the crisis, it’s
needed to destroy what remains of social democracy in the EU, by
attempting to take away the power to set budgets from elected
national politicians through hard spending limits and fines if
these are breached. There already are some such agreements in
place amongst the countries who have the Euro as their currency,
but in practise these turned out to be not as hard as they were
supposed to be in theory, especially not when you’re called
France or Germany. The proposed plan would make it difficult to
“blow the budget” even for those countries, but it will of
course still be the w