Posted on 01/23/2006 2:56:16 PM PST by Pokey78
Nothing!
Hope springs eternal.
<< New Zealand is majority British descent (that is, English. "We" [Recent immigrants] don't have too many Scots descents apart from the Otago region) and hey, New Zealanders love the welfare state to death. >>
Bullshit.
New Zealand was created and built on their own and some [A few] every-bit-as-noble Maoris [And one Wairarapa Moriori's] piled-up balls, by Celts.
The bulk of the bloody English - including, apparently some of their cheap and poor Hong-Kong-cloned Xerox copies and facsimiles - came late. [Mostly post-Britain's-WW-II Singapore-like series of surrenders -- and a couple post-its-June 1997 Hong Kong re-run!]
And, in the inimitable English way of doing things - immediately he disembarked from his Celtic-New-Zealander-taxpayer-subsidised Ten Pound Ship every single one of the disgruntled, ne'er-do-well, idle bastards became a bloody union shop steward - and has since -- and especially since all the Celts moved to Australia and to the United States to escape all and every whining Limey -- totally f****ed it all up.
Thanks for your ping, pokes.
LOL. Great movie.
Ireland has one of the freest economies, most robust economic growth, and not coincidentally, the highest Birth Rates in Europe.
After three or four years of reading this guy you think I'd get used to it, but Steyn still bowls me over with regularity. As usual he knocks it out of the park with the wit and wicked scarcasm we are all used to. I guess when the facts are on your side It's easy to be a killer smarta**. LONG LIVE STEYN!!
All true!!
Thank you 3!
LOVE that movie!
LOL! Great song!
Where is that from?
I don't think such a policy will ever work. The point in having a high birth rate is to get a bunch of tax dollars from the newbies to pay for the welfare subsidies of the oldies.
But if you have to spend too much to lure in the newbies, then you don't have any left over to give to the oldies. This is what is happening in France where all of the subsidies they do give out (including paying moms to stay at home to take care of their kids) is still less than what most women want to forsake a career. Any more money spent and it will be a wash.
The only potential way out I see is a free market where it is possible to die in poverty. Some people will have kids just to maks sure there is someone to take care of them in their old age.
Miss Europe, may I introduce you to Senor Mexico?
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I wish I was one half the snide bastard that Steyn is.
>>Oh, I've seen you approach 40%, on a really good day ...
I'll have to follow his posts more carefully, if they are that good.
I've often said, I wish I could write 1/10th as well as Steyn.
Billorites gets off a one-liner sometimes that's reminiscent of Steyn's.
There'll be a second round of Clearances soon - only the lairds will be speaking Arabic this time...
I always knew that Aho was laughable. I didn't know he was funny, too!
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