>>Better Europeanization than the moronic HillBillyization of the Right. The Right would take us into 3rd World status circa South Africa of the '70s where all white people are armed and everyone is left to fend for yourself... giving rise to war lords, etc. A real nightmare many of the loons on the Right would actually love.
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>>There's a reason why many of the happiest and most prosperous countries in the world are in Europe.
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>>>There's a reason why many of the happiest and most prosperous countries in the world are in Europe.
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>Prosperous?
>The top 3 economies in the world are US, China and Japan.
>http://money.cnn.com/news/economy/world_economies_gdp/
>Germany the EU leader is a distant 4th and has an economy less than 1/5 the size of the US
>I won't even mention Greece, Italy or and Spain's prosperity.


GDP per capita sounds like a better yardstick to measure "prosperous" ;-)

>Happy?
>Have you seen any French films lately?

for me films do not make top 3 criteria for basic happiness.
Even in more common frame of mind girls, drink and food are WAY ahead.
I'll even go so far as to stipulate Greek beverages are not amongst my favorites ;-))

(Am I too typically german saying nice mode of auto-propelled transportation is way ahead of films as well?)