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Is Europe Cracking Up?
Townhall.com ^ | March 25, 2014 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 03/25/2014 7:37:09 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 03/25/2014 7:37:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Just more of the endless pan-European struggle between centrifugal and centripetal forces.
2 posted on 03/25/2014 7:39:52 AM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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Now its later, and they indeed have run out of other people’s money.


3 posted on 03/25/2014 7:41:38 AM PDT by MrEdd (vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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“Why is the EU under rising centrifugal pressure? Why do so many nations of Europe seem on the verge of breaking up?”

That government is best which is closest to
the people.

- Thomas Jefferson


4 posted on 03/25/2014 7:42:32 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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The goal these desperate people seek: the mother countries of the Old Continent and the wealthy welfare states of Northern Europe. What the children of Europe are rebelling against is what their fathers, paralyzed by political correctness, refused to prevent. It was predictable, it was predicted, and it has come to pass.

Facts are stubborn things and, for liberals, difficult to comprehend.

5 posted on 03/25/2014 7:44:59 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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Jefferson had it right. Our “betters” today are always seeking to create a government which is more remote and less answerable to the people.


6 posted on 03/25/2014 7:46:46 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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"Across Europe, there is a fear that the ethnic character of their countries and continent are being altered forever against the will of the people. "

It's more than a fear, it's a fact. They're suffering from a cancer, called islam.

7 posted on 03/25/2014 7:50:30 AM PDT by matthew fuller (No, I don't miss GWB- I miss Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld.)
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“Why, they ask, should we subsidize a less industrious and lazier south that consumes tax revenues we raise here.”

I remember the knee-jerk liberal, well traveled, rich kids in college, the world community professors, the elitist journalist, et el, telling me about how great Europeans have it: 30 days of vacation, 35 hour work weeks, early retirement, free healthcare, housing stipends, paternity/maternity leave, and on and on. Let’s here it now Lindsy Schnozzbottom. 30 days of vacation is now 30% unemployment with no relief in site. The money you make in those 35 hours is paying for smartphones for Gypsies and Headchoppers. You just thought you’d get to retire at 55. Healthcare is now Deathcare.


8 posted on 03/25/2014 7:59:13 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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Sounds more like a reaction against the international progressive movement.


9 posted on 03/25/2014 7:59:27 AM PDT by skeeter
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There’s a Saint George’s Hall in The Kremlin?

I’ll be darned..

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10 posted on 03/25/2014 8:02:11 AM PDT by Mears
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Many of the people never wanted the EU. They are also unhappy with the management.
Things were forced on them. Sound familiar?


11 posted on 03/25/2014 8:02:12 AM PDT by dforest
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The EU was not content to be a free trading, monetary & economic confederation. The same sort of egalitarian/collectivist ideologues that so dominate and corrupt the Academic/Media complex in America, had to try to force theories of human interchangeability & social uniformity on the various members. Their fanatical approach has forced disastrous immigration policies; and interfered with the different nations' perceptions of proper sex roles, ethnic identification & other social institutions, developed over many generations.

What is strange is only that it has taken this long for so many to fight back.

America is suffering from the same cancer as the EU--indeed, it was the American Left that pushed the creation of the EU in the aftermath of World War II. And it is the same collection of Leftist Ideologues in America, which has undermined--deliberately undermined--our sense of an American identity, and the desire to maintain an American identity in any form that the Founders would recognize. (See Norman Cousins & Surrender By Subterfuge.)

All decent people want a peaceful world--although we are likely never to achieve it. But the idea of destroying the cultural achievements of the world's very, very diverse peoples, in pursuit of the fantasy of human equality, is no step in any acceptable direction. None!

William Flax

12 posted on 03/25/2014 8:05:44 AM PDT by Ohioan
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Briton s/h listened to Margaret Thatcher.


13 posted on 03/25/2014 8:56:57 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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Yes. And Britain should also have listened to Enoch Powell.

This make believe world of human interchangeability is mucking up the future of all peoples, everywhere. It is premised not on respect, but on an insane aversion to reality.

14 posted on 03/25/2014 9:21:31 AM PDT by Ohioan
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Why is the EU under rising centrifugal pressure? Why do so many nations of Europe seem on the verge of breaking up?

There is no single or simple explanation.

Well let me give it a whack: "Bureaucracy."

15 posted on 03/25/2014 9:32:19 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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“Yes. And Britain should also have listened to Enoch Powell.”

I was just about to post that!


16 posted on 03/25/2014 9:37:50 AM PDT by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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Well, I take that as support for sanity among nations.

William Flax

17 posted on 03/25/2014 9:42:13 AM PDT by Ohioan
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Are the Frisians beating the war drums to secede from the Netherlands, yet?

Those areas that are flooded with muzzies will soon enough desire independence so as to establish the European caliphate.

Hey you white Euros better start marking your territories before there is nothing left to mark.


18 posted on 03/25/2014 11:28:21 AM PDT by 353FMG
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[Article] Why is the EU under rising centrifugal pressure? Why do so many nations of Europe seem on the verge of breaking up? There is no single or simple explanation.

How about, "overgovernment by green-eyed power junkies and overzealous hall-monitor types"?

19 posted on 03/25/2014 11:54:24 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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Briton s/h listened to Margaret Thatcher.

Maggie got stabbed in the back and tossed by her own party, at the behest of the Build-a-Burgers, over the monetary-union issue. The Burgers wanted England to give up the pound sterling and go into the euro. Maggie told them "piss off", and some moral midgets in her own party launched the coup, the will of the Burgers for to build.

20 posted on 03/25/2014 11:57:04 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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