To those who want US to be like THEM

“United States spends 14.8 percent of GDP on welfare programs and has not reached the welfare expenditures level of European socialist countries. France spends 28.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on welfare, Spain 21 percent, Greece 24.3 percent, Italy 24.4 percent, and Portugal 21.1 percent. There are European nations that spend more on welfare, such as Denmark (29.2 percent), Sweden (28.9 percent), Germany (27.4), and Belgium (27.2) but the economic situation in these countries is substantially different. (Statistical data source: NationMaster.com as quoted in Forbes)”

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20120609.html#110872


(Gates of Vienna has the best lead of any blog: “At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war.” Remember, too, that in 1453, the Ottoman caliphate captured Constantinople, capital of Christian civilization in the East. That battle was about 800 years after Muslims burst out of Arabia and took North Africa, the Middle East, Persia, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Ukraine, and etc. and etc.)