Why is it that only the former communist countries are able to tell the truth as they see it? As we continue to increase the state, the only voices of dissent are coming from Eastern Europe. Perhaps fifty years living in a communist utopia taught them something we have yet to learn?
From a speech by Czech president Yaclav Klaus:
"Let me use this opportunity to say a few words about something I know better, about the continent from where I just came, about Europe. The developments there bother me. I don’t see any reason to describe the current Europe in a propagandistic way, or using rosy colours or rosy glasses. Many of us in Europe are convinced that Europe faces a serious problem, which is not a short-term, or medium-term business cycle phenomenon. It is not an integral part of a recent global crisis either. It is something very European. As an economist, I would call it a structural problem which will not – by itself – wither away."
