American Enterprise Institute advarer i dag amerikanske politikere imod at indgive sig på velfærdsreformer, der har til formål at indføre den type af velfærdsprogrammer, hvis konsekvenser netop i denne tid har vist sit grimme ansigt:
In broad terms, all of the policies Obama and the Democrats have pushed are the sorts of policies the British, the French, and other Europeans had for years, even decades.
As far as I am aware, no one has asked President Obama a simple question: If your philosophy is so great, how come the countries that have embraced it for generations are so much poorer than we are?
Nor have they asked: If guaranteed health care for everyone will make us so much more “competitive,” how come we’ve been doing so much better than our “competitors” who already have socialized medicine, high tax rates, and lavish pensions?
Nor has the president been queried about the incongruity of saying his policies have laid a “new foundation” for economic growth and job creation when the countries he’s trying to emulate are trying to dismantle the very same foundations in order to survive.
