Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-02-25-Speech-4-141"
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"Mr President, it is human nature when something unexpected happens that we try and fit the facts into our existing
The psychiatrists have a fancy phrase for it, an even fancier phrase than
: they call it ‘cognitive dissonance’. Thus, for example, when there is a ‘no’ vote in a referendum, the reaction of this House is to say that the people wanted more Europe. They were voting ‘no’ because this did not go in a sufficiently federalist direction.
And so it is with the current economic crisis. We are in a crisis because we have run out of money. We have spent everything, we have exhausted our treasuries, we have exhausted our credit, and now the House comes along and says that we need to spend more. We need more European infrastructure projects, we need a higher budget.
Mr President, that is another dose of the medicine that caused the illness in the first place. We have seen since the 1970s where that process leads. It leads to a reduction of GDP, it leads to unemployment, it leads to stagnation and it leads to this part of the world falling further and further behind its rivals."@en1
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"Weltanschauung."1
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