{"id":28489,"date":"2016-06-12T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T12:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28489"},"modified":"2016-06-12T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T12:47:31","slug":"britain-and-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28489","title":{"rendered":"Britain And The European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 23, Britain<\/a> will vote on whether or not to remain in the European Union<\/a>. Argument can be made for both sides of the issue, but I would like to cite a few in favor of leaving.<\/p>\n

A New York Times<\/a> article on June 2 stated the following:<\/p>\n

Jackie O\u2019Neill, a 54-year-old administrative assistant, was explaining the other day why Britain<\/a> should vote to divorce itself from the European Union<\/a> in this month\u2019s referendum. As she enumerated her many grievances, I couldn\u2019t help thinking of the scene in Monty Python<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLife of Brian\u201d<\/a> in which a bunch of disaffected Judeans sit around, complaining about the Romans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve bled us white, the bastards,\u201d says their leader, Reg, played by John Cleese<\/a>. \u201cAnd what have they ever given us in return?\u201d His colleagues mention a few things, by way of example.<\/strong><\/p>\n

O.K., Reg says. \u201cBut apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the freshwater system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today Clarice Feldman posted an article at The American Thinker<\/a> explaining why she thinks Britain should leave the European Union.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the highlights from The American Thinker article:<\/p>\n

Here and in Britain voters are torn as to whether or not to jump off the globalization, open borders bandwagon and government by unelected bureaucrats or voting to retake sovereignty and re-establish free markets. The polls show the sentiments for retaining the status quo or starting over (Brexit<\/a>) seem too close to call, I predict Britain will leave. I hope we, too, will choose to return to less intrusive more accountable government, sovereignty and freedom by rejecting\u00a0 Hillary Clinton ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Europeans<\/a> seem to be overly attracted to the notion of government by wiseman elites. British love of independence and freedom is deeper and stronger, although government regulation and control took root during the World War I and that increased even more during World War II<\/a> — power the government didn\u2019t relinquish when the war was over. This softened their resolve when the notion of the EU was hatched.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes with a very good description of what is at stake in the Brexit vote:<\/p>\n

One thing is clear — both the EU officialdom and ours are wiser than voters only in their ability to feather their own nests, not in making us safer, richer, or happier. Many predict that if the UK<\/a> exists Brexit, other European countries will follow, Maybe one of the attractions of Trump is that the distaste for the regulatory state run by elites is spreading across the Atlantic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The British will decide this month whether or not they want to be an independent country. Americans<\/a> will have a chance in November to decide whether they want more of the government they have now or to vote for someone who at least has a possibility of shrinking government and government regulations. A rich man has no reason to try to use the government as his own blank check–lavish vacations, bending laws to his advantage, government subsidies for business of friends, etc. Unfortunately we have seen in the history of the Clinton family a willingness to do anything to increase their own personal wealth. November will be the time for Americans to choose between these two personal histories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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