Pic of the Day: Go Your Own Way

Music to read by:

 You can go your own way
Go your own way

OK. It's not a new pic, but it really does sum up the mess in Europe.  Apart from the FACT that people in the Med countries can't drive sanely to save their lives, the idea of Leftist intellectuals and politicians years ago that two fundamentally different people with divergent mores, values, and traditions could be yoked together by a single currency was destined to end up in a massive wreck.  The Germans, Scandinavians, and Dutch are frugal, hardworking savers.  The peoples of the Med countries not so much.  They have always driven in opposite directions.

Is it any surprise that the Greeks actually believe that they can remain in the euro, abrogate their contractual obligations made as a condition of their EMU, IMF, and ECB bailouts, and still get more bailout money from "Führer Merkel and her German Nazis"?  They really believe that they will still get more money even if they refuse to abide by previous promises.  This is after €100 billion in debt has already been written off of the country's debt.

Countries in the EU are driving in different directions.  Removing the traffic lanes or concrete barriers will not solve the problem.  Neither the frugal Germans nor the spendthrift Greeks feel that they owe any allegiance to the EU flag.  They are Germans and Greeks first and, as such, will always be heading to different destinations.  Trying to change Greeks into Germans or Germans into Greeks will be as effective as trying to turn Afghanistan into a Western-style democracy.

Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Loving you
Isn't the right thing to do
How can I ever change things
That I feel

If I could
Maybe I'd give you my world
How can I
When you won't take it from me

You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way

Tell me why
Everything turned around
Packing up
Shacking up's all you wanna do

If I could
Baby I'd give you my world
Open up
Everything's waiting for you

You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way

Ah, ah, ah...