[Tax-chick]

People are very proud of the way the city looks and seem to want to keep it that way. ... The countryside now, however, is almost spotless.

That's wonderful. If people are proud of their country, and proud of themselves for the way they're fixing up their country, then one can hope that eventually they'll decide the country should continue to be populated by Greeks, so they'll have some babies :-).

[Frank Sheed]

Greece exported Plato, Socrates and democracy, and the West exported “Bay Watch,” “Jerry Springer” and the “Price is Right” to satellite dishes around the globe.

Ireland exported people who worked hard, and a strong belief in the Catholic faith, and the West exported the U.N./E.U. bureaucracies with their attendant abortion/contraception policies.

Do you see an underlying thread here? Birth rates drop and somebody has to do the dirty work so...