The inflated price of integration

I bet Mrs Merkel and Mr Obama meet each other over in-private video conference a lot more than either one of them do in the public appearances with other heads of state we are formally fed over official videostreams. They have a lot of SWOT points in common to analyze, including currency, domestic economy, emerging powers elsewhere in the world, social insurance, banking, and of course, re-election.  Ah, I almost forgot, and forward looking responsabilities associated with a nobel prize for peace.

While the US is - necessarily - pushed to prioritise homeland issues, Germany is carefully extending its influence across sovereign borders.  Merkel would be a good advisor on the pricing of putting a social insurance system first, whereas Obama would have some best practice to share on how to lead in central governance and handling swing (member) states, while managing Latino populations within bounderies.

In the 19th century the US had to pardon and pay about US$ 30 million to compensate debt burdened France, Spain and Russia in order to annex what's most of the US' midwest and Alaska today.  At today's rate that would reasonably correspond to the € 500 billion the recently constituted ESM has been building up.  For the US it concerned a series of property transactions valued for a price per visible square kilometer or acre to subsequently occupy.  For Germany, Europe the ESM is intended to be a mere safetynet to guarantee future harmonization, albeit with a more centrally decreed harmony.

Both continents have had their share of civil and military warfare and subsequent sets of treaties on a more tempting road of civilized harmony and this is where the foundations of the political parties we must listen to nearly every day can be found. 

On that road, on both continents, outspoken warnings against the threats of partisan politics and territorial expansionist movements, as well as the very constitional legitimacy of money supply monopolies are as old as the fundamentals of democracy.  In Europe this means the time of Augustus and Alexander the Great and in the US back to the gentlemen that became to known as the founding fathers. 

There is no doubt we are all being pointed back into history to discover our mistakes and the origins of today's crises.  I wonder whether we will find what we are looking for shortly after invididuals laid down arms and uniforms in order to seek and hide in collective party driven debate, lobby, influencing, in other words when being a politician - in today's meaning - became full time (paid) jobs.

Barack Obama asks 4 more years and Angela Merkel wants a further 5. Tik tak tik tak.