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To: Lane3 who wrote (14058)	3/8/2010 8:57:17 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

And what of the nations like Denmark with a larger welfare state than Greece who seem to be doing just fine? My answer: give it time. Denmark’s population in 2000 was 5.336 million. By 2025 it is projected to fall to 5.2 million. From the late 1960s to the present, fertility rates have been declining. Tick-tock. Denmark has some of the same problems, but Demark's government doesn't get in the way of wealth creation nearly as much as Greece's does. A declining population will be hard, esp. for countries with an extensive welfare state, and esp. for countries with a lot of debt (I don't actually know Denmark's debt level, if it doesn't have a ton of debt, than that puts Denmark in an even better position), but I suspect that Denmark will continue to do better than Greece; unless this crisis pushes Greece to seriously reform, up and down their whole government and political space, and that doesn't seem likely.