U.S. should learn lesson from Europe

Recently leaders in both Germany and England made speeches denouncing the long-term effects of diversification programs. Before that, politicians in Canada and the UK spoke about how state-run health care may need to go back to some form of a more privatized system. And the public sector unions have rioted in Greece and Italy as their countries face bankruptcy.

Many of these European countries have attempted to govern with a left-leaning socialistic philosophy, the kind our president seems so impressed by — that, and their bullet trains.

A very liberal immigration policy combined with a passive tolerance to other cultures has reached to point where the PM is making security speeches saying it has to stop. The third-largest employer in the world is the state-run health care system in the UK. Can you imagine what a country with six times the population will do with that? The riots are the result of government growth reaching the tipping point where the private sector can no longer afford to support the public sector’s basic salaries and pensions.

Does any of this sound familiar? It sure does, yet our current administration plows forward pushing many like-minded ideas. There have been over 200,000 new government employees hired since Obama took office and that will seem like nothing if Obamacare is ever implemented. The problems created by this type of philosophy are right there in front of us all to see.

There are many bullet-type trains in Europe and they are heavily used, in great part because gas is $8 a gallon, most of which is needed tax money to run the health care systems. Obama’s bullet trains will be heavily subsidized because use will be very little.

I only can hope that at least 51 percent of us see this clearly by November 2012.

Marc Thomsen

Elk Grove Village