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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 20th Century History Down The Danube. ?If we revised immigration policy and p?

By Glenn Reynolds

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 20th Century History Down The Danube. “If we revised immigration policy and predicated legal entry on education and skill, ten million Europeans would arrive tomorrow, replete with degrees, expertise, and capital. There is a great unease over here, mostly in worry that no one knows the extent of aggregate debt, only that it is larger than let on and will result in higher taxes and fewer benefits without resulting in budget surpluses. It is always difficult for a government to ask its citizens to pay more than ever, receive less than ever, and end up nevertheless with greater debt than ever. We?re next. . . . If this implosion begins to unravel the EU, I think we will be once again right in the middle, rather than at the end, of history. There is simply too much history, too much memory, too many players over here to think a post-EU continent is going to always look like the Netherlands rather than from time to time the former Yugoslavia.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 28, 2010 (boomark / email).