Ummm... was that article about Saddam or about the ceasefire agreement? Tsah tsah... I?m out to dance. Have a nice day.
"Europeans tend to regard free national health services, unemployment benefits, social housing and so on as pretty good models of human progress. We think it's important ? civilized, in fact ? to help people who fall through society's cracks. This isn't just altruism, but an understanding that having too many losers in society hurts everyone. It's better for everybody to have a stake in society than to have a resentful underclass bent on wrecking things. To many Americans, this sounds like socialism, big government, the nanny state. But so what? The result is: Europe has less gun crime and homicide, less poverty and arguably a higher quality of life than the U.S., which makes a lot of us wonder why America doesn't want some of what we've got."
Problem is that European politicians have been cutting down the social services for the last ten years. America had Reagan, we had Thatcher, the nineties, so called social democrats and upcoming right wing extremists.