[rmlew]

Europeans have to choose between 2 visions for the next century:
1. A prosperous set of countries maintaining culture and history, while economicallyadapting to the changes in the world
2. Lebanon writ large with the Developing World demographically overruning collapsing societies and literal or cultural civil wars.

If Europe wants 1, they need to deregulate (screw the EU), open trade, and become less socialist. They will also need to stop the government-leftist native population control programs called Sex-ed.

If they want two, they should just set cruise control.

[Leisler]

When I was a kid, I took a job as a mason tender for this ancient mason. He was finishing up a really tall chimney on the gable of a building. I was up there with him and I asked what we would do if the pipe staging peeled away from the building with us on top. He said, "Well, I guess we'll just ride it down."

That's my bet. The Europeans are like the monkey with their fists in the socialist jar. No one is going to be first to let go, and they aren't going to stop their grasping ways. However I see them going the Argentina route myself. I was talking about this article to a friend of mine who is an unbelievable vice hound. He said he couldn't wait until European girls were doing him for the price of a Big Mac.

[expatpat]

Yes, it seems that the UK, Germany, Holland have decided on version 2, with or without cruise-control. Spain, Italy, and (perhaps) France may still be on the fence, tho' France and Spain are starting to be over-run by N. Africans and Italy by Albanians.