Why don’t American politicians talk like this?

[Roscoe]

WSJ’s interview with Czech President Václav Klaus is a must read or watch.

ROBERT THOMSON: Mr. President, obviously during the dark days of communism, America was a beacon for you and many other people in Central and Eastern Europe. What are your impressions of contemporary America?

VÁCLAV KLAUS: Sitting here in this room in the last two hours and the coming from, first Europe, and, second, from a former communist country where I spent most of my life, I almost don’t believe my eyes to see how much you believe in government and how much you don’t believe in the market.

This is for me a shocking experience. And I have to say that very loudly. As a professor of economics, I have my theoretical arguments about the impossibility of running the economy from above.

As a person who spent almost 50 years of his life in a communist country, I know how crazy it is to introduce schemes like the cap and trade and similar ideas, how devastating and damaging for the economy all those ideas really are. So I’m rather frustrated. It seems to me that to fight for freedom, free markets, is still the task of today, even if we hoped almost 20 years ago in the moment of the fall of communism that it was over.

This is the same in Europe these days. There is one EU summit after another one weekend after another, there is a summit trying to find solutions. But I don’t think that this solution will come from the government.

[427 S/O]

President Klaus...been there, done that!. I hope we see new faces come next election?, now that most Americans are paying attention, it could very well be.

[Ron61]

Perry,

I am not sure that we can afford to wait for the next election to try and get rid of him and his power group he is building. I think maybe a recall or something of that nature would be more likely to get rid of him as he will sure be re-elected by the masses because they believe anything they hear. I guess that one woman is still waiting for the nice new house he was going to buy her.

Ron

[FWB]

politician= empty suit