Posted on 12/10/2018 6:57:32 PM PST by Rummyfan
A few thoughts on the passing scene:
~I hardly ever read The Washington Post these days, mainly because everything in it is either wrong or, alternatively, right too late. As an example of the latter, consider this plaintive story:
KALPAKI, Greece — Another school year was starting, with students arriving for their first day and lining up by grade, but when one mother dropped off her first-grader and watched him take his place, she wondered: Where are all the children?
"There were so few of them," said Vasso Harisiadi, who had attended school in the same town. "I thought the yard would be full of kids."
Greece's intensifying demographic troubles.
It's over twelve years since I published America Alone. You don't even have to get as far as page one, chapter one: The first mention of Greek demography, of Greek fertility rates, the first My Big Fat Greek Wedding gag, all crop up in the prologue on page xvii or whatever it is. Back in 2006, all the smart guys at The Economist and elsewhere pronounced me "alarmist".
Five years later in After America:
You can't borrow against the future because, in the crudest sense, you don't have one. Greeks in the public sector retire at 58, which sounds great. But, when ten grandparents have four grandchildren, who pays for you to spend the last third of your adult life loafing around?
Welcome to My Big Fat Greek Funeral.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Huh. Me nuther, but I'm stealing it. "You're nothing but a cockwomble!" ought to stop a lot of political arguments in their tracks...
Interesting experience, backing down a shelf road for about 3 miles to let another vehicle through.
(For “cockwomble”, I at least knew right away that it wasn’t the same thing as a “pink-headed warbler”.) :-)
Good, because a “pink-headed cockwomble” might be a bit racy for FR. :)
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