Europe Is Baffled by the U.S. Supreme Court

The Atlantic Wire ^ | 4.5.2012 | John Hudson

[TexasNative2000]

Europe is scratching its head over possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down President Obama's signature legislative achievement. As the judiciary and the Obama administration trade legal barbs over the high court's authority, the idea that health care coverage, largely considered a universal right in Europe, could be deemed an affront to liberty is baffling.

"The Supreme Court can legitimately return Obamacare?" asks a headline on the French news site 9 POK . The article slowly walks through the legal rationale behind the court's right to wipe away Congress's legislation. "Sans précédent, extraordinaires" reads the article. In the German edition of The Financial Times, Sabine Muscat is astonished at Justice Antonin Scalia's argument that if the government can mandate insurance, it can also require people to eat broccoli. "Absurder Vergleich" reads the article's kicker, which in English translates to, "Absurd Comparison." In trying to defeat the bill, Muscat writes, Scalia is making a "strange analogy [to] vegetables."

[jveritas]

And yet the socialists in our country always take the French socialized medical system as their ideal and that we should implement it here in the US…Back to the French, these fools really believe that their ineffective and out dated socialized medical system is great, the same goes for most Europeans and they get surprised why we use so many sophisticated medical tests and medical equipments to treat patients here in the US. Not only they believe their ineffective socialized medical system is great but they do believe that whole damn corrupt and destructive welfare system is great and the way to go. The problem in Europe is the Europeans themselves, they love the socialist crap system they live in and they want more of it….

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

“Wasn’t the point to make sure the richest and most powerful nation on the planet could protect its own people, as other nations do?” he wrote.

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What planet does this guy think he’s on? In my reality, our nation has a long history of protecting other, lesser nations.

[longtermmemmory]

europe still has aristocracies.

[longtermmemmory]

actually they viewed the new world as a dumping ground for rable and undesireables.

They never expected the USA to become a superpower or even austrailia to become the power nation.

[bubman]

One thing that troubles me in Europe is the fascist undercurrents that are making way given the sclerotic pace of economic turnaround and huge influxes of immigration over the last 20 yrs. With demographics below replacement levels adding to the weight of the welfare rolls through chronic unemployment and underemployment by the young or massive retirements coming in the near term, I cannot see how Europe is going to get over this insurmountable hump. Europeans (non-ethnic) are simply not having enough children and compounding this fact with immigration from the third wold you have a recipe for disaster. Fascism has always been Europe's pressure valve and i cannot see how it will not be part of Europe's future in the next 5 to 10 yrs. God help them