The lowest of all professions

May 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM
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"Samuel Johnson thought that acting was the lowest of all professions. To earn your money from deliberate deceit was, he felt, worse than prostitution" quoted by Daniel Hannan

In light of today's news - discuss.

Stocks

A thought:
('We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God..'
James Madison, the fourth president of the USA, known as The Father of The Constitution)

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Alfred the Ordinary: United Kingdom; View my profile; The EU is a government of bureaucrats, by bureaucrats for bureaucrats. Monnet's dream, stemming from the 1920s, was for a supranational government of the future, run by technocrats without all the constraints of democracy and nationalism. Monnet introduced initiatives little bit by little bit until they became a fait acomplis, so slowly, the supranational EU government has taken almost all power from national governments, but few seem to either notice or care.