{"id":6516,"date":"2015-03-14T19:09:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2015-03-14T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:09:01","slug":"the-eus-stalinesque-4-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6516","title":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s Stalinesque \u201c4 Year Plan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to The EU\u2019s Stalinesque \u201c4 Year Plan\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=36307\" rel=\"bookmark\">The EU\u2019s Stalinesque \u201c4 Year Plan\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>They Didn\u2019t Want to Call it the \u201c5 Year Plan\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We have already commented on previous occasions on the EU\u2019s \u201cinvestment plan\u201d (see: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=34229\">EU Planning to Spend Money it Doesn\u2019t Have<\/a>\u201d for details), which is bound to result in the production of countless white elephants across Europe (such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=34814\">Poland\u2019s \u201cghost airports\u201d<\/a>). These investments are apt to \u201cboost GDP\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p data-spx-slot=\"1\">Apparently the EU has now given its\u00a0<em>placet<\/em>\u00a0to a \u201cFour Year Plan\u201d with the aim of investinf \u20ac315 billion, with various EU governments vying for the best place at the trough. It seems they didn\u2019t want to make it a \u201cFive Year Plan\u201d \u2013 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\u2019s five year plans had to be fulfilled in four years:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36310 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2015\/03\/5-year-plan-in-four-years.jpg\" alt=\"5 year plan in four years\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" \/>An old Soviet GOSPLAN poster: \u201c<em>Let\u2019s fulfill the five year plan in four years!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-spx-slot=\"1\">As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/10\/us-eu-investments-idUSKBN0M611X20150310\">Reuters reports<\/a>\u00a0on this latest giant boondoggle thought up by the administrative apparatus of the European socialist superstate project:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s Stalinesque \u201c4 Year Plan\u201d They Didn\u2019t Want to Call it the \u201c5 Year Plan\u201d We have already commented on previous occasions on the EU\u2019s \u201cinvestment plan\u201d (see: \u201cEU Planning to Spend Money it Doesn\u2019t Have\u201d for details), which is bound to result in the production of countless white elephants across Europe (such as\u00a0Poland\u2019s [&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":[2],"tags":[195,279,284,353,536,2799,742,3991],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-gdp","tag-money","tag-socialism","tag-soviet-union","tag-stalin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}