Mitt Romney said that President Obama "wants to turn America into a European-style entitlement society." There is not much evidence of that. The President's economic policies seem to be 100% American. They act to advance the common good in ways designed to work in our society and often come from ideas developed right here in the good old USA, sometimes (like with health care) coming from Mitt Romney himself.
But why the attack on European social welfare policies? These policies mostly are not from the Moscow but Rome. In Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Low Countries and elsewhere (but not the Nordic lands or the UK), the socialist parties were not in power when their domestic social security policies were designed, implemented and enacted. In all of these countries it was CATHOLICS not Socialists who designed and put in place the social programs that now exist.
So if Romney does not like European social security, let him blame who is responsible, the Catholic Church and her social teachings.
But why the attack on European social welfare policies? These policies mostly are not from the Moscow but Rome. In Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Low Countries and elsewhere (but not the Nordic lands or the UK), the socialist parties were not in power when their domestic social security policies were designed, implemented and enacted. In all of these countries it was CATHOLICS not Socialists who designed and put in place the social programs that now exist.
So if Romney does not like European social security, let him blame who is responsible, the Catholic Church and her social teachings.
