re: #29 Racer X

Perhaps the Swiss people are concerned about losing their country’s unique identity?

So unique they’ve got two languages, neither of which is called “Swiss.”

“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they also produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love — they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” — Orson Welles

And secret banking, Orson. Don’t forget they’re the safe deposit box to despots throughout the world.

(personally, I thought Switzerland felt very much like Disneyland, only with better chocolate. I did not enjoy my visit.)