Remember when progressives lectured Americans on the need for the United States to be more like Europe? Good times, good times.
From Boris Johnson at The Telegraph on Greece:
In the eyes of every politician there is a glassy humiliation, a sense that the fate of the nation is no longer in their hands. Even worse than the humiliation is the dread that things will deteriorate further still. Thousands are now being fed by soup kitchens.
Translation: Leaders don’t know what they’re doing, are powerless to impact the situation in a positive way, and are realizing that as bad as things are now, they’re going to get a lot worse.
Unemployment is rising by the day, and among young people it now stands at a shameful 54 per cent. Yup, folks – those are the results of an EU plan to produce “growth and jobs”. It was called the euro, and it has been a catastrophe for Greece and pretty bad (with one notable exception) for the rest of the continent.
But Boris moves from Greece to the heart of Europe:
Europe now has the lowest growth of any region in the world. We have already wasted years in trying to control this sickness in the euro, and we are saving the cancer and killing the patient. We have blighted countless lives and lost countless jobs by kidding ourselves that the answer to the crisis might be “more Europe”. And all for what? To salvage the prestige of the European Project, and to spare the egos of those who were wrong and muddle-headed enough to campaign for the euro.
A government focus on plans for jobs and growth that has failed miserably. Does that sound familiar?