Tarefas para o futuro (ou "Não se podem importar candidatos?")

Desafio-vos a encontrar as diferenças (nem vos digo quantas serão) entre este presidente da república e os candidatos a presidente da República Portuguesa (ou mesmo com o cessante).
De um discurso de Vaclav Klaus, presidente da República Checa para o Institute of Economic Affairs, em Novembro de 2005:

What is our task for the future?

We should be aware of what makes our society free, democratic and prosperous. It is not the democratic deficit, it is not supranationalism, it is not the government, it is not an increase in legislating, monitoring, and regulating us.

It is a political system, which must not be destroyed by a postmodern interpretation of human rights (with its stress on positive rights, with its dominance of group rights and entitlements over individual rights and responsibilities and with its denationalization of citizenship), by weakening of democratic institutions, which have irreplaceable roots exclusively on the territory of the states, by the “multiculturally” caused loss of a needed coherence inside countries, and by continental-wide rent-seeking (made possible when decision-making is done at a level which is very far from the individual citizens and where the dispersed voters are even more dispersed than in sovereign countries).

It is an economic system, which must not be damaged by excessive government regulation, by fiscal deficits, by heavy bureaucratic control, by attempts to perfect markets by means of constructing the “optimal” market structures, by huge subsidies to privileged or protected industries and firms, by labour market legislation.

It is a social system, which must not be wrecked by all imaginable kinds of disincentives, by more than generous welfare payments, by large scale income redistribution, by all other forms of government paternalism.

It is a system of ideas, which must be based on freedom, personal responsibility, individualism, natural caring for others and genuine moral conduct of life.

It is a system of relations and relationships of individual countries, which must not be based on false internationalism, on supranational organizations and on misunderstanding of globalization and of externalities but which will be based on good neighbourliness of free, sovereign countries and on international pacts and agreements.

The recent defeat of the EU constitution may become a Pyrrhic victory. Its text was not the birth of Europeanism, it was its ex-post summary, its political manifesto. The text of the constitution was “only” an attempt to legislate it. We have to do something with the ideas which stand behind it.