Posted on 02/27/2010 7:05:11 PM PST by JLS
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care "summit," thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe. Chapter One (the introduction of unsustainable entitlements) leads eventually to Chapter 20 (total societal collapse): The Greeks are at Chapter 17 or 18.
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. And, compared with Spain and Italy, Greece has the least-worst fertility rate in Mediterranean Europe.
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But then isn't everything Steyn writes, as well?
OMG! What happened to German men?
The future for Europe is bleak. I didn't think I'd live to see Eurabia. Now I'm not so sure. And the transition is going to be very ugly.
It just makes you sick doesn’t it?
I often think of it the other way around. With a bit of France tossed in, too.
Say hello to the wonders of birth control and abortion!
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