The WSJ editorial page, in discussing the possibility of Mike Huckabee remaking the GOP into an American version of a Christian Democrat party, blames European Christian Democrats for everything this side of the plague and crack cocaine.
Among the predictable canards is blaming Christian Democrats for a “high” unemployment rate, without even explaining that Europe calculates unemployment far differently than we do, and that, it doesn’t lock up a bumch of drug-related criminals; that, combined with the drug-war infrastructure here, has a definite effect on U.S. unemployment numbers, too.
In short, if we compared apples to apples, the unemployment rate difference would be cut in half.
The WSJ also fails to mention 4-5 weeks of paid vacation, national health care and other things that we just don’t enjoy here.
As usual, they’re not reading their own news pages, of course.
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