Should America Join the European Union?
I hope we don’t don’t allow panic over our economy to alter our vision of being a free, independent nation. I hope we stay true to the basis of our founding. According to a recent report, the International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in an interview published Sunday that the world body needed to tighten its control over financial markets. He went onto say, “We can have national or regional authorities, such as the European Union for example, but we need a global guarantor, an institution which monitors standards,”
Let’s be careful before we hand over our oversight to other nations and the global economic powers. I’m not sure the people in France know what is best for us in Kansas or Tennessee (or even Wall Street). Oversight, such as the European Union provides, is more encompassing than just over monetary policies. We talked with people this year in the country of Malta who, after recently joining the EU, are no longer able to hunt birds, which was a national sport of patriotism to some.
We have problems. Let’s strategically figure them out and solve them. Surely after 200 years of experience as a nation we can do that on our own.
