venividivici
2009-09-30 12:50:45
Just face it – there is room for improvement in the USA, and Europe does some things better than we do.
I’m not necessarily one to Europe-bash (although I generally agree with Nietzsche’s assessment of Europeans as priming themselves for a form of soft tyranny that their ancestors would have found galling), so where there are opportunities to learn from Europe, I’m fine with that. I don’t think importing things that go against our Constitution (e.g., using foreign law to determine what is Constitutional), just because they are European, makes a lot of sense. Nor do I think that following them down the path of the “entitlement state” makes sense. It would be like a car company in 2008 saying they want to follow GM’s business model.
