[HiTech RedNeck]

Americans historically have had some fundamental ideas about freedom that were dismissed as nonsense in much of Europe, especially the firmly regimented Germany. Americans are not so bent on a quest for utopia that they forget to consider what jolly well actually works the best.

Let Germany have a system like Obamacare if it wants. Somebody has to keep on supporting the cornucopia of medical care capabilities, and that somebody has been the USA.

[hinckley buzzard]

That's right. The bottom line is that America and Europe have different sets of values. We are far from the same people.

Europeans willingly give up major swatches of liberty in exchange for security. Americans strike a very different bargain.

Works for us, so far.

[tanuki]

“Americans historically have had some fundamental ideas about freedom that were dismissed as nonsense in much of Europe, especially the firmly regimented Germany. Americans are not so bent on a quest for utopia that they forget to consider what jolly well actually works the best.”

Very profound statement.