“Common Agricultural Policy” my foot. This has wrecked the economies of quite a few EU countries, along with the equally-twisted Common Fisheries Policy (which lets fishing boats from foreign countries fish in your sovereign waters).
1 posted on
02/04/2012 2:23:08 PM PST by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
2 posted on
02/04/2012 2:42:49 PM PST by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: Olog-hai
3 posted on
02/04/2012 2:45:46 PM PST by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: Olog-hai
Ah, yes, the law of unintended consequences.
I remember a few years ago Americans clearing their virgin pine forested properties to keep it from being declared the habitat of an endangered species.
Opposite effect of what was intended.
4 posted on
02/04/2012 3:17:29 PM PST by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: Olog-hai
Middle-school students on a field trip discovered a rare burrowing insect on some fallow acreage in my state. They excitedly told the owner. The field they tripped to was plowed in less than a week; some accounts say overnight.
To: Olog-hai
Hey, the Chinese need someone to grow their food.
7 posted on
02/04/2012 5:03:30 PM PST by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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