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To: LindyBill who wrote (304887)	5/13/2009 3:28:16 PM
From: Hank Scorpio	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793963

That was a great essay.

To: LindyBill who wrote (304887)	5/14/2009 12:59:10 AM
From: Alan Smithee	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793963

Forget for the moment Europe's lack of world-beating companies: They regard capitalism as an Anglo-American fetish, and they mostly despise it. But what about the things Europeans supposedly value? With so much free time, where is the great European art? Where are Europe's men of science? At American universities. Meanwhile, Continental governments pour fortunes into prestigious white elephants of Euro-identity, like the Airbus A380, capable of carrying 500, 800, a thousand passengers at a time, if only somebody somewhere would order the darn thing, which they might consider doing once all the airports have built new runways to handle it. If we continue the slide in this country, we, and the rest of the Western world, are headed for a new version of the Dark Ages.