Indeed, it would take a certain kind of intelligence, available only to those who have undergone a lot of formal education, not to be able to work it [the reason for youth unemployment in France] out."Is 'Old Europe; Doomed?" By Theodore Dalrymple, Cato Unbound, 2/6/06.
The principal motor of Europe’s current decline is, in my view, its obsession with social security, which has created rigid social and economic systems that are extremely resistant to change. And this obsession with social security is in turn connected with a fear of the future: for the future has now brought Europe catastrophe and relative decline for more than a century.
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February 15, 2006
European decline.
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Gee, Socialism failing? Who woulda thought?
Weird woulda.
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