Europeans Just Don't Get It

What Europe Really Needs

The Continent has turned its back on both the past and the future.

(click here for the entire article from the Wall Street Journal)

That Europe as an entity is sick and the European Union as an institution is in disorder cannot be denied. But no remedies currently being discussed can possibly remedy matters. What ought to depress partisans of European unity in the aftermath of the rejection of its proposed constitution by France and the Netherlands is not so much the foundering of this ridiculous document as the response of the leadership to the crisis, especially in France and Germany.

This is just another article on the European reaction to the French and Dutch “no” votes (and the British pushback). Europe’s stagnating economies are being choked by their unending government regulations. This combined with their intransigent and irrelevant unions are beginning to put a stranglehold on their economies and putting it in their death knells. Furthermore, this is compounded by ever decreasing birthrates that is a demographic time bomb because of the ever shrinking pool of tax payers for the ever growing pool of pensioners.

Their problem is that their hybrid of socialism and economic-elitism is a complete failure. Not to mention that they have a near non-existent and impotent military if and when Russia turns totalitarian or an Islamic nation becomes belligerently drunk with nuclear power; Europe will fold quickly to any form of saber rattling that would make the French proud. The "European Experiment" has failed and the sooner they realize this better off they will be to get their house in order to be able to compete with the United States in the economic realm and prevent a complete meltdown of civic life.