Europe Sprints Right, Obama Sprints Left
- Scott Miller
After decades of central planning, and so-called “social democracy”, the Europeans are going through their own “awakening” and sprinting as far from socialists and their damaging policies as quickly as they can. This from Fox News:
Conservatives Score Wins in EU Parliament Voting
BRUSSELS — Center-right parties hailed European Parliament election victories as a continent-wide vote for conservative approaches to the economic crisis and pledged Monday to forge ahead.
Right-leaning governments came out ahead in Germany, France, Italy and Belgium, while conservative opposition parties won in Britain and Spain.
Many Socialists ran campaigns that slammed center-right leaders for failing to rein in financial markets and spend enough to stimulate faltering economies. But voters did not embrace their cause.
Germans handed a lackluster victory to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and a historic defeat to their center-left rivals in the European Parliament vote months before a national election.
“We are the force that is acting level-headedly and correctly in this financial and economic crisis,” said Volker Kauder, the leader of Merkel’s party in the German parliament.
The Social Democrats got an unexpectedly dismal 20.8 percent — the party’s worst showing since World War II in any nationwide election.
Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and a regional sister party won 37.8 percent, down from 44.5 percent five years ago. But the outcome was enough to boost Merkel’s hopes of ending the tense left-right “grand coalition” that has led the European Union’s most populous nation since 2005, and replacing it with a center-right government.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s governing conservatives trounced the Socialists, while an ecology-minded party vaulted to a surprisingly strong third place.
“We will continue to modernize France,” Prime Minister Francois Fillon said. He attributed his party’s success to the government’s energetic handling of the EU’s rotating presidency last year, and vowed to loosen France’s labor rules to make the country more competitive internationally.
France’s Socialists, who dominated the last vote in 2004, suffered a stinging defeat, barely clinging to the No. 2 spot.
“Tonight is a very difficult evening for Socialists in many nations in Europe,” said Martin Schulz, the leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament. “(We will) continue to fight for social democracy in Europe.
Mean while, back at home, Obama and the statists in Congress are running at break-neck speed to codify the same socialist policies that have wreaked so much economic havoc in Europe, here in America. Forget the fact that the few socialist welfare policies that America has adopted, are the very policies that have raised the specter of bankrupting our country. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and lavish public pensions combined have amassed $53+ trillion in unfunded obligations… and Obama wants to double down with a new social welfare entitlement… national healthcare.
What the statists fail to comprehend (or worse yet comprehend and strive for) is that these social welfare programs do nothing but create and foster intergenerational dependency on the state. They prey on the weaknesses of human nature, for many will decide to take the easy road… the path of less resistance. Why work when momma-government will provide me with my every want and need. They sap the individual of their creativity and drive for self-sustenance, ultimately creating an unsustainable burden on any economy as those who take, outnumber those who produce.
Europe is beginning to learn these lessons the hard way. But you see, Obama is so arrogant he believes that he alone can change the laws of economics… that the socialist central planners in Europe just didn’t execute right… that this time it will be different. History, and human nature, be damned.
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Europe Sprints Right, Obama Sprints Left
Some Great D-Day Footage… You Won’t Be Able to Stop Watching
- Scott Miller
Found some great video the D-Day invasion and preparations that went into the massive operation to liberate Europe from the German rule… there is no doubt that these men were truly the greatest generation:
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Some Great D-Day Footage… You Won’t Be Able to Stop Watching
