European entitlement mentality is not a model we should follow

All of Europe's various socialized health care systems are struggling to make ends meet. Add in other unsustainable entitlements, and the problems we're seeing in Greece today will eventually spread to other countries in Europe. Yet our own political left wants us to follow the European model.

Thankfully most Americans disagree, as polls show continued disapproval for the way the Democrats rammed their health care bill through Congress. This is one of many reasons why we need to elect a conservative majority to Congress in the 2010 midterm elections. We have to stop the left before they set this country on an irreversible course toward what is happening in Greece, as Jeffrey Bergner writes in the Weekly Standard:

As Europe is rocked by the Greek financial crisis, which seems likely to spread to additional European states, it may be worth asking why anyone would see in European politics a model for the United States. Yet this is exactly the position of America’s political left, which looks approvingly at Europe’s health care systems offering universal coverage. Now that Obamacare has been enacted, moreover, some progressive voices are already calling for a European-style Value Added Tax (VAT) to pay for it and the other ballooning entitlement programs run by Washington. The left continues to press America to look ever more like a European centrally administered social welfare state.

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