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2005-02-22 Europe

VDH: Soft Power, Hard Truths (about Europe)

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-22 12:24:03 PM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The population trends in Europe coupled with the state welfare could spell serious problems in the future. Our Soc Sec and Medicare problems, caused in large part by population trends and expectations, are dwarfed by the problem in Europe. See, e.g., The Global Baby Bust, FA, 6/04, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501faessay83307/phillip-longman/the-global-baby-bust.html?mode=print

"With a shrinking labor supply, Europe's future economic growth will therefore depend entirely on getting more out of each remaining worker (many of them unskilled, recently arrived immigrants), even as it has to tax them at higher and higher rates to pay for old-age pensions and health care." This, of course, will require increasing importation of workers, who often come from Islamic countries (Turkey, et cetera).

Posted by Kalchas 2005-02-22 1:22:09 PM|| 2005-02-22 1:22:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks TW. A bit shorter than his usual essays, but it seems that brevity forced him to up the intensity.

Posted by Ptah 2005-02-22 2:17:04 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-02-22 2:17:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ach, my bad. Didn't notice the page 71 link.

Posted by Ptah 2005-02-22 2:18:45 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-02-22 2:18:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 amoral in its inability to act, quite ready to preach to those who do

VDH does it again. This is exactly what is wrong with Europe in that short sentence.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-02-22 3:43:41 PM|| 2005-02-22 3:43:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Or as we Jerseyans usually say Badabing!

Posted by Parabellum 2005-02-22 6:40:18 PM|| 2005-02-22 6:40:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I won't write off Europe, because it is such a big market, and an exploding number of Euros - including in France - are beginning to understand what has to be done with the Muslim enemy. Any Secular - even Commie mutts - can be educated. Koranimals are immune to reason. Any politician in the West who kisses enemy asses, needs to be tossed into the discreditation hole and left there. Hate for Muslims is good. I love Hate.

Posted by ITolYouSoLucy 2005-02-22 9:52:12 PM|| 2005-02-22 9:52:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 an exploding number of Euros

Well, with number of euros exploding, Houston, we would have already bigbadaboom a problem.

Perhaps "rapidly increasing number" would be a better verbal device.

I am not convinced, though. Eastern Europens still have some life juice in their bloodstream and they have a genetic memory of Islamic thread (I inherited it too). Western Europe is so pussified that in my humble view, they are already 1/3 on a slippery slope.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-22 11:13:21 PM|| 2005-02-22 11:13:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Good piece. Europeans need to decide if they want to go the Islamist route - satisfied with assigning blame instead of assigning accountability.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-22 11:17:51 PM|| 2005-02-22 11:17:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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