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"Mr President, economists are people who teach us what to do with money we do not have. Everybody is talking about the crisis as though it were inevitable. There are some who even say: ‘the alternative to the crisis is war: you choose!’ Well, this is not really the case. Perhaps this reasoning was valid up to 1945, when imbalances were dealt with brutally by force, in the sense that a big scandal was covered up by an even bigger one. In the meantime, however, the European Union came into being, that organisational structure whose duty it is to avoid war and prevent or drastically limit the crisis.
However, what the founding fathers of the European Union failed to take into consideration was human greed. While the entire wealth of the Kennedy clan 60 years ago was USD 400 million, today we are confronted by fabulous riches. On our planet there are around 1 500 dollar billionaires.
I will close with a meditation from Saint Augustine: the rich will go to heaven when the poor bring them there."@en1
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