THE FATE OF THE UNION

Recent news from France, England and Germany should give the BHO administration pause to reflect on it's goal to move our country toward the European model it so obviously seeks to emulate.

There is rioting in the streets of France because the government has found it necessary to change the country's retirement age from 60 to 62 in order to meet future financial obligations. A population weaned on socialism is fighting back to hold onto every welfare benefit. Is this what we have to look forward to?

There were protests in London yesterday as the British government announced massive budget cuts for the upcoming five year period which will effect every facet of it's operation. The electorate is now bracing for extensive layoffs, as many as 10% of those employed by the government, and deep cuts in all social welfare programs. It will be a challenge for their leaders to convince the people to accept a protracted austerity program in order stay solvent. Will we be forced to take a simlar tact in the near future? It will also be interesting to see what this will do to their fragile economy. It is the opposite tact from our stimulus spending programs intended to 'jump start' economic recovery.

In Germany, Chancellor Merkel has announced that efforts to create a multi-cultural society have "utterly failed." It just doesn't work. Immigrants in the future will have to learn the German language and adjust to German cultural mores. It is the responsibility of immigrants to assimilate into German society. Good for Germany! By the way, France has allowed immigrants to rebuff assimilation and build enclaves and ghettos of their own. Some are so out of control that French police cannot enter. Is this the European model that we are to espouse?

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