Europe will slide back to the Middle Ages if they don't stop what they're doing.
But that's what some people want, isn't it?
EUROPE, R.I.P. - for whom the bell tolls
snell/GOD & COUNTRY-zero cliques
2012/05/10 19:54:12
By Arthur Herman;National Review Online
May 7, 2012 12:30 P.M.
Europe is dying. Dying right along with socialism and Obamaism. Recent election results show Europe’s voters don’t know they’re committing suicide, or don’t care. The only question is what will take Europe’s place once its political union, and its worthless currency, wind up on the ash heap of history.
Three times in the last century America had to save Europe from itself — WWI, II, and the Cold War. Now we’ll have to do it again, as Europeans stumble dazed from the rubble created by their EU bureaucrats, politicians, and unions. But this time it won’t be U.S. soldiers, arms, or nuclear umbrella that come to Europe’s rescue. It’ll be American ideas and policies based on free market, economic growth, and individual freedom.
In a sense, Europe has no place left to go. They tried fascism and Communism; those proved deadly flops. That left state socialism’s ‘mixed economy.’ The European Union was created in 1992 at the end of the Cold War — a victory, we note, of America’s making, not Europe — as a monument to socialism’s ideal of large centralized planned economies and societies. It’s the same ideal Obama and his liberal friends have worshiped for a generation — with only slightly less disastrous results here. But in spite of Obama’s mountain of debt, reckless government spending, and punitive regulation, America appears to be hanging in. We’re the last major capitalist, pro-growth economy on earth, with an energy sector built on shale oil and gas, a reviving advanced manufacturing base, and a wireless and high-tech innovation industry second to none. All it would take is a ‘pro-business’ president to turn the 21st century into the next American century — and to show how free market and the private sector can turn around even the most shattered economy.
Post-Katrina New Orleans is now a burgeoning high tech Bayou Valley; gas fracking rigs springing from the desolate landscape of central Pennsylvania. This will be the new model for a post-EU Europe. Who knows. Maybe at the end of all this, Europeans will discover their own culture buried under two centuries of socialist and Marxist garbage: the Europe of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, and Hayek, of Aristotle and Aquinas. Maybe they’ll realize their birthright as the original home of liberty and freedom, at long last.
......moral of the story: None of this can be done if BHO remains in office.
Could America be marching toward suicidal ruin as well? ~ snell
May 7, 2012 12:30 P.M.
Europe is dying. Dying right along with socialism and Obamaism. Recent election results show Europe’s voters don’t know they’re committing suicide, or don’t care. The only question is what will take Europe’s place once its political union, and its worthless currency, wind up on the ash heap of history.
Three times in the last century America had to save Europe from itself — WWI, II, and the Cold War. Now we’ll have to do it again, as Europeans stumble dazed from the rubble created by their EU bureaucrats, politicians, and unions. But this time it won’t be U.S. soldiers, arms, or nuclear umbrella that come to Europe’s rescue. It’ll be American ideas and policies based on free market, economic growth, and individual freedom.
In a sense, Europe has no place left to go. They tried fascism and Communism; those proved deadly flops. That left state socialism’s ‘mixed economy.’ The European Union was created in 1992 at the end of the Cold War — a victory, we note, of America’s making, not Europe — as a monument to socialism’s ideal of large centralized planned economies and societies. It’s the same ideal Obama and his liberal friends have worshiped for a generation — with only slightly less disastrous results here. But in spite of Obama’s mountain of debt, reckless government spending, and punitive regulation, America appears to be hanging in. We’re the last major capitalist, pro-growth economy on earth, with an energy sector built on shale oil and gas, a reviving advanced manufacturing base, and a wireless and high-tech innovation industry second to none. All it would take is a ‘pro-business’ president to turn the 21st century into the next American century — and to show how free market and the private sector can turn around even the most shattered economy.
Post-Katrina New Orleans is now a burgeoning high tech Bayou Valley; gas fracking rigs springing from the desolate landscape of central Pennsylvania. This will be the new model for a post-EU Europe. Who knows. Maybe at the end of all this, Europeans will discover their own culture buried under two centuries of socialist and Marxist garbage: the Europe of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, and Hayek, of Aristotle and Aquinas. Maybe they’ll realize their birthright as the original home of liberty and freedom, at long last.
......moral of the story: None of this can be done if BHO remains in office.
Could America be marching toward suicidal ruin as well? ~ snell
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Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/05/10 20:00:16
Tis called "ineptitude" b/c bowling was not popular in Indokneesheeya,
Well at least the cheese is free
When zombies are not fed, and kept by the government, they are going to want your stuff, especially your brains if they have not been infected. The biggest threat to zombies, and the those who enable them are free thinking, freedom loving people. Go figure. Sic semper tyrannis!
Yet again, my friend!
Nice!
They hated our ancestors when they were over there, which is why many left.
Whether or not what you put forth happens, you make one of the better arguments I have seen regarding Biblical prophecy.
I tend to see things as possible. Certainly the Cold War, and the upheavals in Iraq/Iran, and with Israel/Egypt could have all unraveled into an end time scenario. Likewise, today we have Europe in an economic tailspin, China is attempting to establish itself as a World Power, and the situation in the Middle East, and Persia are as messed up as ever. It seems the time is always ripe for the end times.
That said, the EU was put together to challenge the U.S., and the Euro was established to challenge the U.S. Dollar as the World's currency. But the EU is to committed to entitlements to go very far, and it looks like it will implode. China is indeed come into its own economically, and militarily, but infrastructure-wise is hollow. The situations in the Middle East and Persia are bad, but no where as bad as much of the African continent, it just so happens there is oil in the Middle East and Persia. So, that is a done deal, and "Western Society is done" is not set.
But if some crappy country like North Korea is able to get a missile that can reach the U.S. and Europe, then all they need is to put off a nuclear device way up high to fry all of our infrastructure, instantly putting us back to the 1880s, which very few people are even remotely prepared for. A th...
I tend to see things as possible. Certainly the Cold War, and the upheavals in Iraq/Iran, and with Israel/Egypt could have all unraveled into an end time scenario. Likewise, today we have Europe in an economic tailspin, China is attempting to establish itself as a World Power, and the situation in the Middle East, and Persia are as messed up as ever. It seems the time is always ripe for the end times.
That said, the EU was put together to challenge the U.S., and the Euro was established to challenge the U.S. Dollar as the World's currency. But the EU is to committed to entitlements to go very far, and it looks like it will implode. China is indeed come into its own economically, and militarily, but infrastructure-wise is hollow. The situations in the Middle East and Persia are bad, but no where as bad as much of the African continent, it just so happens there is oil in the Middle East and Persia. So, that is a done deal, and "Western Society is done" is not set.
But if some crappy country like North Korea is able to get a missile that can reach the U.S. and Europe, then all they need is to put off a nuclear device way up high to fry all of our infrastructure, instantly putting us back to the 1880s, which very few people are even remotely prepared for. A third of the population would be dead in three months.
We would starve, die from disease, and kill each other in that scenario.
My point is, we do not know what is going to happen, or how. So, I am strong in my faith, and I live in a way that is in concert with that. I fight for what is right, and cherish my liberty. I was convinced in the 1980s that it was all coming to the end, as at the time the interpretations were right in line with what was going on then. I did not find it served much of a purpose for me, as it would not change anything. I will stand up for faith, my Constitution, and against the Humanists/Marxists regardless.