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Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain are all on the brink of economic collapse. Do you honestly think that the US should continue to adopt the fiscal, domestic and economic policies of these failed countries?
The Eurozone is failing. Germany, for example, has one of the strongest economies in the world. They have very strong worker movements, short work weeks, long vacations and good benefits.
Overspending, overborrowing and economic collapse are neither liberal nor conservative issues! Perhaps we should look to greed for one cause of those problems, both in the U.S. and Europe?
Already a failed troll thread on this recently. None of those nations are socialist
Then what is European socialism? If you're going to make claim. Then support it with facts! Why should I believe one terse sentence that is punctuated with an emoticon?
I think it is another thread where the OP is not really knowledgeable about the area, but is trying to find evidence for their preconceived conclusions.
I am really not sure if the socialist experiment has failed. France is highly socialist and doing better, Sweden is probably the most socialist of all, and seems to be doing fine.
Countries of all political stipes can suffer from corruption, which is really the problem in Greece. Everyone wants social services, but cheats on their taxes. That seems pretty similar to the US actually.
I think the biggest challenge with Europe is trying to unify so many countries with different cultures and economic strengths. For instance, it seems like bribery is pretty rare in NW Europe, as it is in the USA, but in S. and E. Europe, it is very widely practiced and accepted. Likewise, saving for a rainy day is a N. Europe trait, but S. Europe is inclined more to spend now and pay later. These are important difference that really don't break along socialist / capitalist lines.
I would argue that socialist Germany is on stronger economic footing than the more capitalistic USA or Great Britain.
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