[Gumdrop]

I liked you response better than any of the others. I agree that the article infers that all Europeans like the idea of Pbamacare, and they think we are nuts to not like it.

Now, I am surprised tha so many posters here automatically decided to accept the premise as true. The liberal media in Europe is as bad as ours or perhaps even worse in their leftist tilt.

Since so many Europeans continue to come to the USA. it stands top reason they are not so enamored of all the socialism over there. In May 2010 I was in Bavaria (southern Germany), and spoke to a businessman in a small town. He ran a small business of collection of refuse (not exactly sure what it was, but he had several employees who drove trucks.). This man was really down on all the social programs which caused high taxation and little incentive for workers to be good employees.

So, I would not take this article as being representative of a lot of Europeans.

[Erasmus]

My Stuttgart business colleague expressed a dim view of those welfare-sucking immigrants as we drove through certain neighborhoods.

[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