Posted on 09/16/2011 12:51:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
To President Barack Obama and many other Democrats, Europe continues to exercise something of a fatal attraction. The “European dream” embraced by these politicians — as well as by many pundits, academics and policy analysts — usually consists of an America governed by an expanded bureaucracy, connected by high-speed trains and following a tough green energy policy.
One hopes that the current crisis gripping the E.U. will give even the most devoted Europhiles pause about the wisdom of such mimicry. Yet the deadliest European disease the U.S. must avoid is that of persistent demographic decline.
The gravity of Europe’s demographic situation became clear at a conference I attended in Singapore last year. Dieter Salomon, the green mayor of the environmentally correct Freiburg, Germany, was speaking about the future of cities. When asked what Germany’s future would be like in 30 years, he answered, with a little smile, ”There won’t be a future.”
Herr Mayor was not exaggerating. For decades, Europe has experienced some of the world’s slowest population growth rates. Fertility rates have dropped well below replacement rates, and are roughly 50% lower than those in the U.S. Over time these demographic trends will have catastrophic economic consequences. By 2050, Europe, now home to 730 million people, will shrink by 75 million to 100 million and its workforce will be 25% smaller than in 2000.
The fiscal costs of this process are already evident. Countries like Spain, Italy and Greece, which rank among the most rapidly aging populations in the world, are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. One reason has to do with the lack enough productive workers to pay for generous pensions and other welfare-state provisions.
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Teach people to value human life again and things will change. The success of a country and humanity all starts in the home.
Yes, but we, here at FR, are fighting that trend.
I encourage all Conservatives to have at least four children because Leftists usually have between zero and two. Demographically we can beat ‘em if we really stay focused for the long term. Then teach our children to become leaders in the areas that the Left is entrenched so they can hire other Conservatives.
America is not going European.
America is going WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY.
China is taking our industry. China is taking our national treasure.
And a few so-called “free traders”, are calling the shots.
What happened?
That will work to exterminate liberalsim. The trouble will be public school indoctrination of our kids, as leftist try to steal them.
America is not going European.
America is going WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY.
China is taking our industry. China is taking our national treasure.
And a few so-called “free traders”, are calling the shots.
What happened?
Plenty of people in our nation fell for some of the modern day “False Gods”
1) Sexuality
2) Material Wealth
3) Physical & Political Power
4) Hyper-Partisan Politics
Again, I would consider all of these to be false gods, in the sense that when you make any of them more important to you than God, you practically worship them.
With the worship of these false gods, loads of people in America fell complacent, ruined their succeeding generation from bad circumstances such as raising children fatherless, divorce, cohabitation, and so-on, so that now, we have the welfare state, and politicians can get away with bankrupting the nation, selling interests out to the Chinese Communists, and so on, because so much of our recent generations are too doped up on these false and misleading vices to be aware, or care enough about the future prospects.
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