Europe is dying, with angry Vandals and intolerant Goths swarming from the east, tearing down what's left and picking through the ruins.
Nobody makes pessimism and decline sound classy like the witty and articulate Mark Steyn:
What's happening in the developed world today isn't so very hard to understand: The 20th century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people to stick it to. In America, the feckless insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids.
In Europe, they've reached the next stage in social democratic evolution: There are no kids or grandkids to screw over. The United States has a fertility rate of around 2.1 – or just over two kids per couple.
Greece has a fertility rate of about 1.3: 10 grandparents have six kids have four grandkids – i.e., the family tree is upside down. Demographers call 1.3 "lowest-low" fertility – the point from which no society has ever recovered.
Waaah! Selfish meanies are taking my freebies away!
Steyn strikes at the heart of what's wrong with selfish protesters throwing fits in the street because the government teat they've been suckling at has dried up...
Let's face it, if Greece disappeared from the face of the earth, would anyonebesides a few tourists even notice?
Steyn strikes at the heart of what's wrong with selfish protesters throwing fits in the street because the government teat they've been suckling at has dried up...
Once a chap's enjoying the fruits of government health care, government-paid vacation, government-funded early retirement, and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and to hell with everyone else.
People's sense of entitlement endures long after the entitlement has ceased to make sense.
5 comments:
Interesting post. I am disgusted with Europe and their quest for the one world order and so many people are duped by this. One global ecconomy - it is very scarry.
One world order, all going down the drain together...
Thanks for stopping by, Layla!
-- Silverfiddle
Unfortunately the one world order has been prophesied in our beloved bible so I know that it will occur one day. I just pray and hope the Lord will come way before that time comes and will take all of us home.
My heart breaks at what the future holds at this moment for my precious babies.
Leticia: We are indeed facing a precarious future. There is no easy way out of our financial situation and people who hate us are breeding like crazy...
I though Greece was a failed nation of the past!
as for the family tree being upside down....i guess they have that in common with the current admin!
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