Europe's Heart of Darkness By Joseph Puder

For some of the leading members of the Democratic Party, the Europeans have it right, and we in America ought to learn a lesson or two from the Germans, French, Scandinavians, Dutch and the other West Europeans that make up the European Union.

In an interview with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN Booknotes program following the publication of Hilary Clinton’s book It Takes a Village Clinton stated: “I am a fan of a lot of the social policies you find in Europe, and I know that they, too, are going through a rethinking about how to afford some of their policies. But in my conversations with people like Chancellor Kohl or President Chirac, they are not talking about cutting back on their support for families…That’s because they see raising children as a social obligation, not just a parental obligation…”

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