Cempaka Belanda: Southern euro countries should limit state spending

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, May 3, 2010

Southern euro countries should limit state spending

NRC International, EDITORIAL ,3 May 2010 16:37

Countries such as Greece, Portugal and Spain have grown complacent on cheap credit. They should try to ensure their private sector remains competitive.

With all the recent bad news on Europe, the careful signs of economic recovery on the continent are easily ignored. Last week, Germany showed its unemployment rate declined. A severe winter explains part of the drop, but so do the underlying economic fundamentals of the country. German competitiveness has improved considerably over the past decade and has boosted the results of German companies.

Across the eurozone, the mood on the economy seems to have improved. But the single figure for business and consumer confidence in the 16-nation currency block hides a dichotomy between, roughly, the north and the south. The same division can be seen in economic forecasts for this year and the next.

The difference between north and south is not caused by the negative effects of budget austerity measures proposed in Greece, Portugal and Spain alone. The separation took place a long time ago.

When joining the euro, countries such as Germany and the Netherlands realised they would be forced into a monetary straitjacket that would limit their options for improving their competitive position to structural measures. At the same time, many of the southern countries saw their interest rates fall to German levels. They took full advantage of this effect, but neglected to tend to their competitive edge. This resulted in a toxic cocktail of soaring labour costs, declining corporate profitability and a growing deficit on their trade and payment balance. The budget crisis now afflicting the eurozone has become critical because of the global credit crisis and the economic recession that followed. The basis for this disaster, however, was laid much earlier.

This has repercussions for the financial restructuring of the troubled countries now being conducted under pressure from financial markets. Increasing state income from taxes and other sources is a fairly easy way to balance the inflow and outflow of money. But it does little to address the main underlying problem: the loss of competitiveness. Measures aimed at drastically reducing the expenditure pattern of the state and local governments would be a much better option.

Doing so would be more painful for the citizens and therefore a harder political nut to crack. Yet a clean up of public spending is crucial. Over the last decade, an era of war, growth of public spending in most Western countries has outpaced that of the economy as a whole. A powerful economy, however, should be based on a thriving private sector, not on a big a role of the state. This should be the message to the southern euro countries that need to structurally improve their position in relation to their northern neighbours to prevent a recurrence of the current crisis.