Tomas Sowell has a great column today regarding the desire of many in the US to be more like Europe.  I've honestly never understood this desire, especially as someone of Greek heritage.  I've been to Greece, of course, and it's a great place to vacation.  But you couldn't pay me to live there.  It's a freaking mess. 

Among the points well made in the column:

The American economy produces the largest output in the world — more than Japan, Germany and Great Britain combined. Measured by purchasing power, output per capita in the U.S. is the highest of any large nation.

And yet we want to adopt labor laws more like Europe's why?

Anyway, it's a great read.