”On its face, the Juncker plan, therefore, is a disgrace. It expands the troika’s shameful corporate welfare policy while refusing to aid the 100 million EU citizens in Spain, Greece, and Italy (roughly one-third of the EU’s total population) who live in nations unnecessarily forced into Great Depression levels of unemployment by the troika’s insistence of inflicting austerity on economies already suffering from inadequate demand. It is also designed to be a stealth privatization program. Private companies will end up with majority ownership of vital infrastructure such as roads, tunnels, and bridges.”