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The future of Europe
In Europe they believe that everything can be administered, but even so some bugs have to be worked out. The abolition of the family is proceeding nicely, with parental authority giving way to that of the state (no spanking!) and marriage becoming equivalent to a temporary partnership between any two persons for whatever purpose they choose. The abolition of family ties will simplify administration and to that extent will benefit the system. For some reason, though, nobody’s having any children, and by 2050 the expected median age (52) will be getting uncomfortably close to today’s median retirement age (only 39 percent of men age 55 to 65 still work). Since the Europeans are notoriously worldly-wise, some of them are beginning to ask where the money for pensions is going to come from. Good question! Posted by Jim Kalb at July 01, 2003 10:13 AM | Send Comments
Mr. Kalb, Why do you think the marriage-equivalents will be limited to liaisons between two people only? And after our Supreme Court’s boffo performance in Lawrence v. Texas, is there reason to think it will be otherwise here? I am a hopeful Catholic, but I now have little faith that the fact that the United States is deemed more Christian than “old” Europe means we will be better able to resist these pathologies in the long run. HRS Posted by: Howard Sutherland on July 1, 2003 1:58 PMSorry! It was a momentary lapse of the moral imagination, combined with precocious Alzheimers — we’ve already noted early signs of the recognition of bizarre trios as “marriages”: http://www.counterrevolution.net/vfr/archives/001367.html Posted by: Jim Kalb on July 1, 2003 3:02 PMWhere’s the pension money going to come from? That’s a no brainer - the Tranzis have planned unlimited immigration from Africa and the Islamic world. Trouble is, the hordes of young Muslims might not appreciate the idea of paying heavy taxes to support 75-year old sodomites with all those pricey anti-HIV meds. Posted by: Carl on July 1, 2003 4:20 PM |