"American workers got what they deserved"

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Originally Posted by Skybird

It is also about egoism and short-sightedness. Just today or yesterday a major German newspaper published the findings of a study that revealed that although most Germans expressed stellar distrust into the euro and the EU and expect that their pensions will suffer dramatically and that before they reach that age their social security payments will explode - they refuse to see the link between that and the state'S debts and social payment burdens, and their own unlimited expectation that the state nevertheless should nruse and care for the citizen, almost without limits. The expectations towards thje state are still limitless, nbody thinks about consequences to be drawn, nobody sees the links between the higher outcome, and his individual demands - and his personal tolerance for any obviously malfunctioning system that additionally does its best to kill itself.

I agree. Americans are unhappy with the results of high taxes, over regulation and wasteful gov't spending, but many nevertheless vote for bigger gov't and more programs/spending. It seems an almost psychotic inability to correlate actions with their results.

I am frequently reminded of a quote these days by Arnold J. Toynbee (not exact words): great civilizations do not die by natural causes; they commit suicide.