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In round numbers, the U.S. is about 30% to 40% richer than Europe, and has been for at least about three decades. And of course, the rest of the world is generally even farther behind.
So why isn't everyone trying to imitate the U.S., instead of the U.S. electing politicians who seem ever more determined to imitate Europe?
So why isn't everyone trying to imitate the U.S., instead of the U.S. electing politicians who seem ever more determined to imitate Europe?
With the U.S. defending it, Europe is free to foster its "cuddly capitalism." After the U.S. innovates something, Europe can copy it. It copies our agriculture, our drugs, our health care, our aerospace, almost everything. In return, we got the Beatles, Abba, and IKEA. Oh, and World Wars I and II.
We already do spread our wealth. Even the oil-rich countries are rich because the U.S. developed the technologies for finding that oil, getting it out of the ground, refining it, distributing it, and using it.
And for all this we don't even demand a "thank you," much less tribute. No, all we want are two things: (1) don't kill us, and (2) let us buy and sell with your people at prices they agree to. That's how bad we are.
Once the U.S. completes its transition to becoming just another European country, who will be the new U.S. off whom we all get to freeload? No one. We are the Golden Goose. Kill us, and the whole party is over.
That's the big fly in the ointment of thinking we in the U.S. can just copy Europe's cuddly capitalism. Ronald Reagan said it better, almost 50 years ago.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
Those weren't just words.
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