Mitt Romney made the news claiming that Obama's economic policies are "awfully European." Comparing responses to the economic crisis, Romney argued, When the Europeans were in trouble economically, they spent more money and they borrowed more money. That's just what he did... [Obama] has been awfully European. You know what? European policies don't work there. They sure as heck aren't going to work here. To an extent Romney is correct. I myself have argued that Obama is a classically European socialist who would fit in with most major left-wing parties in Europe. It also appears that when Obama imagines what he would like America to look like, he glances over across the Atlantic and sees the traditionally high taxes in Europe, nationalized health care, and the big government behemoth of the European Union. This can be seen not only by Obama's attempt to nationalize healthcare with ObamaCare, but also the reliance on stimulus spending, a dismissive attitude to deficit reduction, as well as the talk in the 2011 State of....
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