Pat Oliphant for April 11, 2012
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Europe: I hear you've been sick. Well, you don't know what sick is. They tell me I may have cholera or Yellow Fever or something. But whatever it is it's highly contagious and deadly, and I shouldn't even be here... but you'll be OK. Personally I feel dreadful. Punk: Oh, but you came all this way just to cheer us up? How nice!
I have to wonder how many of the people complaining about “failing Europe” have ever even been here; if you are just getting your picture from Faux News, then trust me, you have no idea of reality.Sure, Greece is a mess. Germany and France are actually doing ok. Scandinavia, the most heavily socialist countries, are in fact doing very well. The economics and politics over here rise and fall on the backs of a number of issues; socialism is not the determining factor. Oh, and I live in the UK — and I can assure you that as a middle-class taxpayer, my quality of life over here is so much better that I do not intend to return to the US. That would be crazy. I regard you all as insanely brainwashed.