[nickpp]

Western Europe is bankrupt: larger and larger deficits financing a lifestyle we can't afford any longer.

Politicians catering to voters used to getting benefits for free and refusing to adjust to common sense policies like increasing retirement age with life expectancy.

Years when essential defense investments were skipped in favor of populist handouts put us at risk from hungry, militaristic psychopaths.

Western Europe had the horrifying example of Eastern Europe who was cold and hungry until we switched to capitalism. Sadly, it looks like it learned nothing from us.