“Americans love Big Government as much as Europeans. The only difference is that Americans refuse to admit it.” (HT:TH)

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334549/kindly-note-impending-bankruptcy-mark-steyn#

NOVEMBER 30, 2012 5:00 P.M. Kindly Note the Impending Bankruptcy You can’t have American-sized taxes and European-sized government. By Mark Steyn "I suppose it’s possible to take this recurring melodrama seriously, but there’s no reason to. The problem facing the United States government is that it spends over a trillion dollars a year that it doesn’t have. If you want to make that number go away, you need either to reduce spending or to increase revenue. With the best will in the world, you can’t interpret the election result as a spectacular victory for less spending. Indeed, if nothing else, the unfortunate events of November 6 should have performed the useful task of disabusing us poor conservatives that America is any kind of “center-right nation.” A few months ago, I dined with a (pardon my English) French intellectual who, apropos Mitt Romney’s stump-speech warnings that we were on a one-way ticket to Continental-sized dependency, chortled to me, “Americans love Big Government as much as Europeans. The only difference is that Americans refuse to admit it.”"