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A long time ago I read a Jeremy Rifkin book. Don't recall the name, but it was full of outlandsish statements, I think it was Entropy: A New World View. Anyway, he's at it again with his European Dream. I know what these liberals think. They think we can simply THINK our way into the future. That since we've got so much brain power we can socialize everything. He very much ignores the basic tenets of human behavior, and idealizes the current Europe. He really tantilizes me with that 35 hour work week stuff. I LOVE the idea and I do resent the amount of insane labor the American workforce expects out of you. 45 hours a week is minimal. 55 is a start. But to really get ahead, we're talking sleeping under your desk for months. Family/Life/God.....that waits.

One think I recall Einstien saying is that America, since we let you find job you love, we've turned work into play. Now that makes sense....but I'm not sure that Dominoes guy who undoubtedly spit on my pizza when I ordered it on a cold NY day felt much amore for his current vocation. But this kind of misery is the feedback for motion, the delivery guy will probably move up, or got to school. He'll find his way or drive off a bridge. Either way,it will be HIS decision, and not a Nanny State making it for him. Maybe piizza guy WLL work those 70 hour weeks, stash his $ and buy a business.

Once exposed to the concept of personal liberty, the immoral nature of an armed State taking money away from one group and giving it to another, and the idea that human nature will always take the easy route unless internally motivated, it is hard to accept any sort of bueracractic solution as progress. Thank you Ayn Rand.

This is a link to a kind rebuttal from a knowledgeable resource. Remember this: Europe isn't replacing its own workers save for immigration. What happens when you're new Mulism workforce decides not to pay for the old white Europe pension promises ? With separation of church and state verbotten in Islam, I expect them to be much more interested in sending money to Mecca instead of Brussels, London, or even Paris.




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