Going on 40 years ago we christened my infant daughter and at the post christening party a bunch of the guys were out in the garage rambling about stuff. One of the guests said sometjing about the decline of social standards you could already begin to see. In a moment of clarity driven by a couple of beers I said: If I wanted to destroy a society the first thing I’d do is destroy the system of public education-check-Then I’d put the unemployables that resulted on welfare and build a government infrastructure to distribute the wealth-check- Then I’d make all kinds of drugs both legal and illegal, widely available to dampen the pain of living in such an unfair and hostile society-check. What Now? Oh, as for the Europeans and their upcoming problems, Who cares? Like all the rest of us they’re making their bed, they’ll have to sleep in it.