Reply #83: "They have the same problems we do" [View All]

Not necessarily.

I see tons of differences.

No one in this thread has suggested that the EU is some kind of happymeal-for-everyone place that hasn't go any problems. What I took from the OP is that compared to the EU, what Americans call "social security" is a sick fucking hoax.

And tell me what you want about Greece, Spain, etc. - I don't see Germany, France - or, for that matter - Poland gutting their social security systems to American levels soon, even if "austerity demands it". It's a fucking political impossibility - while in the US.... see Wisconsin and the rest. The things that are going on there are still politically taboo in "old europe" - quite a significant difference, I would think.