Thursday, July 08, 2004

IHT: Western Europe comes to grips with working

IHT: Western Europe comes to grips with working

"We have created a leisure society, while the Americans have created a work society," said Klaus Zimmermann, the president of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. "But our model does not work anymore. We are in the process of rethinking it."


Americans tend to be richer because Americans tend to work harder and be more efficient. We have to because government is less likely to take care of things for us. The more government tries to take care of us, the poorer we will become. This is part of the reason I believe the best thing for us is the destruction of the Democratic Party as a political force and Socialism as an idea. Then the Republican party will become the "left wing" party of the country and we can open the debate on how to move the country to even more liberty with the Rule of Law.