Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:18:32 AM
Our new President goes overseas for the first time. It's too bad that it's one of those economic summits, the ones that attract the large groups of unbathed, unruly, ungrateful morons. There are simply more of them on call in Europe than any other place in the world.
It will be a good edumacation for Obama, too. He is used to a pliant party and media here. The political and journalistic classes there do not carry the racial guilt baggage they do here, and are less shy about lecturing him on his shortcomings, as evidenced by his takedowns from the other G20 leaders on his budget.
Much as I agree with the gist of the European arguments about what a disaster Obama's economy priorities will create, I disagree that the Europeans are eligible to play that trumpet.
That continent owes us more than they will ever be able to repay. We brought an end to the two largest wars in history there, wars that THEY started and couldn't finish. The only land we annexed from all that was small plots to bury our dead.
After WWII, when the Soviets loomed over them and held a good chunk of their countries as satellite states, they continued to expand their social spending while we maintained a defense umbrella for them.
They deserve their economies, their ungrateful mobs and their Muslim immigrant problems. How they have the cuevos to live under all that and lecture US on economic affairs is beyond me.