http://rashtrakut.com/blog/2010/02/01/indias-manchurian-candidates/ Musings on history, politics, foreign policy, numismatics and other trivia Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://rashtrakut.com/blog/2010/02/01/indias-manchurian-candidates/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Rashtrakut » Blog Archive » The secessionist tendencies spawned by the European Union Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:28:02 +0000 http://rashtrakut.com/blog/?p=1147#comment-198 [...] What often exists is rank selfishness.  In Belgium a once dominant community is now the economic underclass taking more than its fair share of state resources.  In Italy some in the more prosperous North would rather get rid of the far poorer South (if that was where Italy would end up, they might as well have left poor Francis II on his throne).  It is a sentiment sometimes expressed in the United States where residents of certain states are convinced they are subsidizing everybody else (some with more justification than others).   It is also evident in India as noted by the recent brouhaha in Maharashtra.  See link. [...] [...] What often exists is rank selfishness.  In Belgium a once dominant community is now the economic underclass taking more than its fair share of state resources.  In Italy some in the more prosperous North would rather get rid of the far poorer South (if that was where Italy would end up, they might as well have left poor Francis II on his throne).  It is a sentiment sometimes expressed in the United States where residents of certain states are convinced they are subsidizing everybody else (some with more justification than others).   It is also evident in India as noted by the recent brouhaha in Maharashtra.  See link. [...]

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