What's Really Behind Europe's Decline? It's The Birth Rates, Stupid
By Joel Kotkin
Forbes, May 30, 2012: The labor demonstrators, now an almost-daily occurrence in Madrid and
other economically-devastated southern European cities lambast
austerity and budget cuts as the primary cause for their current
national crisis. But longer-term, the biggest threat to the European
Union has less to do with government policy than what is–or is
not–happening in the bedroom.
In particular, southern Europe’s economic disaster is both reflected —
and is largely caused by — a demographic decline that, if not soon
reversed, all but guarantees the continent’s continued slide. For
decades, the wealthier countries of the northern countries — notably
Germany — have offset very low fertility rates and declining domestic
demand by attracting migrants from other countries, notably from eastern
and southern Europe, and building highly productive export oriented
economies.
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'migrants from other countries'. You mean Muslims. And yeah, that will poison a country.
ReplyDeleteThe religion of the replacement population hardly seems to be the central issue, here.
DeleteWhether those who replace the indigenous people are Muslims, Hindus, atheists or Christians would hardly seem to be of question of fundamental significance to those who are being eliminated. It's the genocide that matters.