Much more on Mario Monti

The awful  eurocrat is picked to pieces quite spectacularly by Acting Man blog this morning, linked here, the following is a penetrating brief overall view:

We have strongly criticized Monti's reliance on raising taxes as opposed to cutting spending when his austerity package was first announced. The man is a typical bureaucrat – it is against his instinct to cut the size of government and he has no idea what struggles businessmen are facing daily.