Forget that the average American earns more and pays less taxes than his or her European counterpart. Forget the fact that Europe lives under the American umbrella of protection and doesn't need real armies or navies. And while you're at it, think of the countless billions of dollars they save by not having to protect themselves, and still cannot keep their people employed or taxes in line. Forget the fact that European productivity is approximately half of what the American worker generates on a daily basis. Forget the fact that the brightest minds move to America to assume research and development jobs because the European economy cannot support them anywhere near as well. Forget the fact that islam is slowly taking over most of Europe and within 20-30 years will demand a total surrender.

If you forget all of the above and more, you might then regard the following with a modicum of approval.

"To a growing number of Europeans, however, it is America that is in trouble and the "American way of life" that cannot be sustained. The American pursuit of wealth, size, and abundance —as material surrogates for happiness —is aesthetically unpleasing and ecologically catastrophic. The American economy is built on sand (or, more precisely, other people's money). For many Americans the promise of a better future is a fading hope. Contemporary mass culture in the US is squalid and meretricious. No wonder so many Americans turn to the church for solace."

The Europeans have been daydreaming about this Super-Economy of theirs for decades, and are today relatively worse off than when they began this pie-in-the-sky approach to becoming a world power. And no one of any degree of intelligence really wonders why. Socialistic nannyism has won, and democracy has taken a back seat to the coming Utopia.

Not all is doom and gloom for our European cousins, though. There's millions to be made by investing in Burqa factories.

They think us to be vulgar, yet embrace an ethnicity that treats women as cattle, murders the innocent on a regular basis, and has vowed to kill all who refuse to convert?

The word boggle comes to mind.