Monday, September 27, 2010

Vaclav Havel for POTUS, if it were possible

Havel delivered an address to the UN telling it to keep out of the world's business. Some Swiss dude named Deiss recommended that the UN assume a "role of global governance." I'm sure that, knowing the Swiss mindset, Deiss wants a bigger role for the UN because of all the UN agencies at Geneva, giving his tiny country a larger role. To which I say: "No Deiss!"

Seriously, the Czech president is a true world leader, moreso than the POTUS who is a joke:

Klaus, a free-market economist who oversaw a wave of privatization in the 1990s after communism collapsed in his homeland, also said the world was "moving in the wrong direction" in combating the economic crisis.

"The anti-crisis measures that have been proposed and already partly implemented follow from the assumption that the crisis was a failure of markets and that the right way out is more regulation of markets," he said.

Klaus said that was a "mistaken assumption" and it was impossible to prevent future crises through regulatory interventions and similar actions by governments.

That will only "destroy the markets and together with them the chances for economic growth and prosperity in both developed and developing countries," he said.


The Czech president, a vocal skeptic of global warming, said the United Nations should also keep out of science, including climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made fighting climate change one of his top priorities.


Bravissimo, Vaclav!

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