Financially, the world, particularly Europe has a lot of envy for the United States. Americans are considered pretty doltish. If we were intelligent and enlightened, we would have demanded the government take care of us decades ago. The American attitude of "I can do it myself" is considered childish, infantile really, its what you hear from a toddler taking their first steps. Why would they want to imitate us? Would they be expected to have some American sense of personal responsibility?