Socialism is eating Europe alive

Submitted by jennifer solis (United States), Nov 15, 2007 at 16:37

Thanky ou for your interesting letter, Seth R. Bailey.

I agree with many of your points. I would stress that much of Europe is leaning more and more toward the Socialistic State, the Welfare State. One of the foremost reasons for the wealth and success of the U.S. is "balls", as you say, with regards to capitalism (a dirty word in Europe), free enterprise, and sorry, personal PURSUITE OF THE $. Periodically, Socialistic trends surface, "affirmative action" and welfare mothers, etc. but thankfully, personal responsibility again re-surfaces.

It might be a bit of a cliche, but the phrase "survival of the fitest" is applicable. Human nature is not, sorry to say, the most innately admirable condition, collectively speaking. Whatever part of the world, if people are alowed to live off the government, ambition and incentive go out the window, to the detriment of everything from collective standard of living, quality of medical treatment, and objectivity of mind.

Objectivity recognizes that socialism (and labor unions) contribute to the "gimme" mentality and decay of any society.

Objectivity recognizes the most basic truth applicable as to why the U.S. has endured and prospered: freedom through military victory.

Any country based on a system of freedom, laws and personnal responsibility eventually will be called to defend itself militarily, and war is won by offensive action, not defensive action.

The Allied victory of WWII is a very, very distant memory to most Europians. It could be argued that the U.S. forces were the most instrumental in this victory, and that Europe was just the beneficiary. When someone is given something, rather than paying (or fighting) for it themselves, they appreciate it and value it less.

Combine that with the prevalent, divorced-from-reality attitude of "blame the U.S., blame Israel, blame our governments", ergo utter lack of personnal responsibility that saturates Europe's vast middle and lower classes and you have dead weight that serves no purpose but to continue to drag these countries into the equivalent of a sitting duck, waiting for another form of government to save them from themselves; Islam.

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