{"id":21058,"date":"2016-06-18T09:57:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21058"},"modified":"2016-06-18T13:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T18:08:55","slug":"my-letter-to-the-philadelphia-inquirer-in-defense-of-brexit-dear-sirs-trudy-rubin-claims-that-brexit-would-be-a-huge-step-backward-but-she-never-explains-why-oh-she-does-correla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21058","title":{"rendered":"My letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer in defense of Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"story-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mises.ca\/my-letter-to-the-philadelphia-inquirer-in-defense-of-brexit\/\">My letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer in defense of Brexit<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"right-content\" class=\"relative\">\n<div id=\"content-area\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>Dear Sirs:<br \/>\nTrudy Rubin claims that \u201cBrexit would be a huge step backward\u201d, but she never explains why. Oh, she does\u00a0correlate the growth of the EU regulatory state with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this is\u00a0not cause-and-effect. The Soviet Union collapsed because NATO stood guard over the Western democracies until the internal\u00a0cancer of communism had destroyed the Russian economy.\u00a0Even Ms. Rubin\u00a0admits that\u00a0Europeans resent its (the EU\u2019s) massive bureaucracy, myriad regulations, financial disasters, and open border policies. Furthermore, she admits that Brexit probably would lead to the dismantling of the EU. Is this not democracy in action? The Europeans, of all people, understand the dangers of large, undemocratic, centralized, bureaucratic states, of which the EU is just the latest incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Barron<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer in defense of Brexit Dear Sirs: Trudy Rubin claims that \u201cBrexit would be a huge step backward\u201d, but she never explains why. Oh, she does\u00a0correlate the growth of the EU regulatory state with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this is\u00a0not cause-and-effect. The Soviet Union collapsed because NATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[14028,204,279,284,14027,7617,553,611,14026],"class_list":["post-21058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-brevet","tag-democracy","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-letter-to-the-editor","tag-mises-institute","tag-nato","tag-patrick-barron","tag-philadelphia-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21066,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058\/revisions\/21066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}