Ron wrote:
Fuel price=TAXES= social assistance=better standard of life

Not from where I am sitting.

The productive all across europe get ripped off to buy votes from
the idle and indolent, leaving them with little for their one well
being.

One cannot have a 'better standard of life' when the state is
confiscating 3/4s of ones lifetime earnings via direct and indirect
taxation.

The only people to have a 'better standard of life' are those who
spend
their entire existence suckling at the public teat.


greg

It will be interesting over the next 10 years to see how Western
Europe handles it, as their population ages even more, with much less
younger people to help pay into the system, in proportion to those
who are retired and recieving the benefits of such a social program.

This is valid without considering the immigrants, also in the United States
WASP (the part of the US population more paragonable to the europeans)
people is becoming older... But the other parts of population are younger...

P.S. what about racial integration?