Georgene Rice recently interviewed Samuel Gregg about his latest book, Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America can Avoid a European Future. Her show airs on KDPQ FM in Portland, Oregon.
Rice says that Becoming Europe is “sobering, but not hopeless.” She says that it
Exposes the true scope of the crisis gripping our transatlantic cousins: the crush of economic debt, governments consuming close to 50 percent of the economy, high taxation, sharply aging populations, crony capitalism, and staggeringly high numbers of public sector workers being supported by an ever dwindling class of private sector employees. Most alarmingly, the book Becoming Europe reveals that America has already moved in the direction of the European state, much closer than most Americans realize.
Listen to the full interview here:
[Audio:http://bonhoeffer.acton.org/acton_media/mp3/2013/2013-02-11_Gregg.mp3]
You can learn more about Becoming Europe and Samuel Gregg here.
