European Dominance (EU): Fact or Fiction?

well fox, I am retired, not "new age"

LOL Well, that's one good thing for your side. :-)

Oh well, so I guess that makes me the one from the "new age." :)

Ljubivoje

Yeah, listen and learn from your elders. :-) And eat your spinach.

In my own area, we are building five new schools to accommodate the influx of illegals' children

You have a growing school-age population? Ours is declining. Nonetheless, the School District is taxing us to death to replace all of their buildings this decade except the 2 they built last decade.

Because of that, I'm not convinced the school building frenzy around the country has much to do with immigration or the number of children at all. I think it's about the NEA demanding new sparkley environments for their teachers to work in, where each teacher has their own classroom and own office.

A common complaint we heard at the High School (98-02) was from 'teachers with a cart'. They had to complain to every parent at every opportunity that they couldn't provide a quality class because they didn't have their own classroom - they had a cart that they had to take from room to room. Personally, I thought it was great that we were using most of the rooms all day, even if the teachers were only teaching 4 out of 8 periods...

Because of that, I'm not convinced the school building frenzy around the country has much to do with immigration or the number of children at all. I think it's about the NEA demanding new sparkley environments for their teachers to work in, where each teacher has their own classroom and own office.

That is true also. But Bush visited us (our city) and told us we needed to get ourselves in the mind frame to educate illegals. So I think there is a double whammy going on in education against parents and tax payers.

And, as present birthrates and immigration levels play out, by 2050, the U.S. population could stand as high as 550 million, with the 25-nation EU at 360, and plummeting.

Overpopulation is the ultimate decider of who is part of the first world and who is relegated to the third.Small,'Ageing' nations have,throughout history,been those who contain financially independent well-off citizens.Better to be Monaco or Switzerland than India or Iran.A drop in population will be the slap of reality France and Germany need to become self-reliant.