Yeah, I remember when those countries used to call themselves "Baltic tigers", and I remember about "Ireland economic miracle" as well. It was fun while it lasted =) Where did it go? Growth was based almost entirely on IMF funding, which has boosted population spendings quite a bit (here's your PPP increase, check external debt per capita). The process was coupled with complete deindustrialization (I could name you a dozen of Soviet-era industrial enterprises ranging from car to electronics industry that are gone now, which at best were replaced with one milk farm). Now they aren't capable of supporting even basic pensions for god's sake. Estonians even managed to worsen situation by recently with fanfare entering eurozone and loosing control over their national currency (they could have devalued it at least). Good work! And standard scenario.
BTW check their prosperity from 1940 and on. You will be surprised.
And you should really quite talking like politician. Don't use these propagandistic and ideologistic slogans. Not trying to sound arrogant, just an advice.
