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The EU’s Stalinesque “4 Year Plan”

The EU’s Stalinesque “4 Year Plan”

They Didn’t Want to Call it the “5 Year Plan”

We have already commented on previous occasions on the EU’s “investment plan” (see: “EU Planning to Spend Money it Doesn’t Have” for details), which is bound to result in the production of countless white elephants across Europe (such as Poland’s “ghost airports”). These investments are apt to “boost GDP” in a number of countries, but will very likely leave nothing but proverbial bridges to nowhere behind. It is going to be yet another giant waste of scarce resources.

Apparently the EU has now given its placet to a “Four Year Plan” with the aim of investinf €315 billion, with various EU governments vying for the best place at the trough. It seems they didn’t want to make it a “Five Year Plan” – that would have been too reminiscent of the Soviet GOSPLAN agency, so a four year plan was adopted. However, what they may not have been aware of is that Stalin actually gave orders that the Soviet Union’s five year plans had to be fulfilled in four years:

5 year plan in four yearsAn old Soviet GOSPLAN poster: “Let’s fulfill the five year plan in four years!

As Reuters reports on this latest giant boondoggle thought up by the administrative apparatus of the European socialist superstate project:

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