The anger and disillusionment will grow. Nothing has been solved. The debt continues to accumulate and young people have no hope. Hopelessness leads to the rise of extremist parties, which leads to war. It’s coming.
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Absolutely. Europe is the forerunner of turmoil across the West as the massive deficit spending combined with huge pension and social spending obligations will pit the old against the young, and in Europe, nation against nation. Youth will feel robbed, and rightfully so – they had no say in the profligate spending of prior generations and yet they’re saddled with the insurmountable debt. Any society, our own included, that does this to its future generations deserves what it gets – and hard.
Germany will be at the center of yet another global war.
No U.S. on the list, hmmmmmm. What’s our youth unemployment? My guess is about 25%, including the bottom couple 2 or 3 percent that are just simply too stooopid for employment. We must need more student loans, right?
Not all negatives – look at the new EU Parliament Headquarters. Aren’t you pleased the lords and princes have an establishment worthy of their own self-esteem?
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Uhhh….rigghhhhtttt.
Admin, did you factor in that the Western European youth are protesting by sleeping in, taking a 2-hour nap in the afternoon vs. a 90-minute nap and generally don’t really want to work that hard?
Europe is likely to be the cutting edge of collapse along its’ Souther and Eastern rims simply from the financial idiocy of years passed, proximity to the increasing instability in the Middle East and Africa and Eastern Europe’s proximity to ever belligerent Russian Bear. (I always knew George Patton was right when he begged permission not to stop and let the Russians into Berlin and, instead, just keep on going East until Russia itself was no longer the continuing mess it is!).
Italy, Spain and Portugal are almost equally broke, suffering from migrant flows from Northern Africa and a piss poor work ethic.
I simply do not see how a “united” Europe is viable under their current organization, monetary policy, control and varied cultures. There is no “togetherness” there.
In America (no longer the “United States”), the vast majority of legal citizens of whatever state in which they reside, regard themselves as Americans first, last and always. Not so Europeans.
If America were threatened – as may well happen – the citizens of this country from coast to coast (with the required “exceptions, of course) would rise us, pull together, those guns would appear from behind every blade of grass and we would, as Americans, live or die together. No so Europeans.
The difference is in the technology and WMD availability from nukes to dirty bombs to bugs. The next threat to America is not likely to be fought with tanks, infantry, rifles and bayonets but with vast WMD’s of a neutron bomb type that wipes out life without destroying infrastructure. When the occupation comes, there is a very bad smell and millions of dead but very few, if anyone left to resist.
Not be a praying type, all I can do is hope we come to our senses before this final apocalypse prevents us, as a human race to to do our true job – which is simply to prosper, grow, learn and eventually move into the stars.
The odds are, in my opinion, very, very low of this ever coming about.
MA
I’m afraid Europe will become the FSA countries. Then the liberal idiots / UN will want the US to bail them out. They won’t have to come he illegally, we’ll just pay them to stay where they are, while the US will give them money to live their socialist life style.
As a passing afterthought, what sort of a world could we make were Canada, America (ex-United States) and Mexico united into the one country America used to be? i.e. Our Constitution, modernized, minimal government limited that constitution (only this time we’d mean it!), freedom of speech, movement, capital and motivation, et al…
Just think of it. Like Australia on steroids with a Superman-cape, a continental country, emptier than it originally was (i.e. room for all for a foreseeable future), natural resources like no other, everything from brains to brawn in one free country to — just perhaps — enable us to do our real job of outgrowing Earth and living among the stars..
Think about the concept..
MA
Tommy says: No U.S. on the list, hmmmmmm
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Tommy, the list is European countries (did you read the title?), so of course the US isn’t on the list.
Muck About says: As a passing afterthought, what sort of a world could we make were Canada, America (ex-United States) and Mexico united into the one country America used to be?
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Already a concept, called the North American Union. Here’s what the once-proposed coin looks like:
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/20009-after-crying-conspiracy-theory-cnn-touts-north-american-union
“The global government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published a new report this month demanding further integration of North America, calling for deeper “cooperation” on everything from energy, law enforcement, and healthcare to labor regulations, trade, and education. With the globalist architects well aware of how unpopular their sought-after “North American Union” scheme remains among the public, the CFR appears to have toned down some of its extreme anti-sovereignty rhetoric. Instead, the new report emphasizes what the outfit called a “new focus” on North America dealing primarily with energy, “community,” and “security.” The scheme, however, remains just as radical.”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/19296-cfr-globalists-outline-strategy-for-north-american-community
And it might have worked, if we hadn’t cut china in