Exhausting Generosity
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2007-06-12 14:31
A quote from an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, 12 June 2007
About six million Flemish subsidize four million Walloons with billions of euros a year through transfer payments. Such generosity could exhaust a homogenous society, let alone a linguistically riven one like Belgium.
Frogs will be frogs...
Submitted by Amsterdamsky on Tue, 2007-06-12 17:38.
My french friend thinks that if Flanders cuts Wallonia loose either Wallonia will try to become part of France or they will just move there anyway.
prediction...
Submitted by JimMtnViewCaUSA on Tue, 2007-06-12 17:05.
...the W and S Asians and Africans (10m) will cost less than the Walloons (4m), yet be more appreciative :)
Now this is generosity...
Submitted by Kapitein Andre on Tue, 2007-06-12 15:37.
Wait until 6 million Flemings subsidize 4 million Walloons and 10 million West Asians, South Asians and Africans...