sinz54
2011-12-16 05:34:45
The admiration of the Left for Western Europe’s welfare states is unbounded. Paul Krugman keeps praising them for having created “the most humane societies in history”; Jeremy Rifkin wrote an entire book predicting that Europe would be the next superpower (he ignored Asia).
Ignoring how many times Europe has pleaded for the U.S. to bail them out–two world wars, the Cold War, the Balkans crisis, the current euro crisis–they want the U.S. to “catch up” to how Europe does things.
