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Are liberals who wish to be like Europe aware that Europe wouldn't be where it is today without the U.S.A.?

I'm not just talking about WWII either-- When it comes to Europe watching America, he says, “It’s monkey see, monkey do.” Three data sets supply some evidence. Between 1980 and 2000, the United States consistently spent a larger share of its economy on nondefense research and development than France, Italy, Germany, or the U.K. The gap in overall research and development between the U.S. and European nations has stayed constant during the past 10 years. Patent rates are a second measure of innovation. Between 2002 and 2008, the annual number of patents granted in Germany was about 11,000. California alone produces twice as many. In 2008, the U.S. saw 92,000 patents granted, about the same number as the rest of the world. Benefits of Innovation This fruitfulness benefits the rest of the world in meaningful ways. Non-governmental organizations complain about the prices U.S. companies charge for HIV drugs. But the NGOs wouldn’t be able to dispense AIDs drugs at all if U.S. pharmaceutical companies hadn’t invented them. Third, there’s the quality of European and U.S. universities, which is harder to quantify. Anecdotally, we know the reality: nothing American -- not an East Side two-bedroom apartment, not a condo by the slope in Utah’s Deer Valley, not even U.S. citizenship -- is coveted more by Europe’s professional class than getting their children admitted into an Ivy League college. The Times of London gives four U.K. universities high spots in its ranking but the top of the field is dominated by U.S. schools. Read the whole article if you're interested--http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aJQaLYzHw3iE

Public Comments

1. the EU is bankrupt im just going to start paying people with my fecal matter, since its worth the same as any other currency
2. Who says we want to be like like Europe. We want to be the USA. Just because they have some good idea's doesn't make us want to be them.
3. Ahhh yes Europe the birthplace of countless bloody wars , tyranny , murder , Monarchies, Communism, Fascism , the Nazi's and socialism . What a great place .
4. They don't care . To somehow think we can copy a small white Scandinavian country is more than absurd, its pure pipe dream.
5. "When it comes to Europe watching America, he says, 'It’s monkey see, monkey do.'" Well, geee. That's rather interesting. Considering they've been around a lot longer than we have.
6. Would like to correct you on one thing first. WW2 depended on 3 things: 1. the USA joining in the war 2. the russians joining the war 3. the french resistance fooling the nazis allowing the allies to gain a strong foothold in france If just 1 of those things didnt happen then the allies would have lost the war. Out of interest you say that Europe depends on the USA. The USA depends on Europe just as much. Most of your armys equipment is designed and build by Europe. I would like to point out that the most effective HIV drug was developed by a South African.
7. No sir, I don't beleive they are, in my view, they will deny this ! Maybe even dodge answering it all together and call it spin or something.
8. Europe should thank us for saving their butts in ww1 and ww2. Without us, they be gone long time ago.
9. If we didn't pay for so much of their military protection, EUROPE couldn't be like Europe.
10. All of the freedoms of United States citizens exist because the citizens did not want to be like Europe.