Christine Lagarde is a perfect representative of the arrogant European elite that has landed us in the mess we’re in. The head of the International Monetary Fund championed the euro during her four-year tenure as France’s finance minister, and throughout her previous political career. Like her fellow members of the European elite, she thought it would be possible to have monetary union without political union. Predictably, that has proved an illusion, as the peoples of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal . * e a quem os iria pagar? Aos americanos onde o FMI está sediado? Mas se o seu salário é pago por todos os membros do FMI porque iria pagar impostos aos americanos? Seguramente que os seus comentários sobre os gregos revelam uma certa estupidez mas ela corrigiu dizendo que se estava a referir aos gregos ricos que não pagam os impostos.