Any possible solutions to the European Debt Crisis?

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Mr Khan said:

KillerMan said:

Jexy said:
Stop being so socialist and giving out everything for free. You can't pay for all of that free college education and free health care without getting the money from somewhere, and taxes are already high in Europe...

Also, interesting how college is the most expensive in the USA (although the best colleges and vast majority of them are in the USA) and yet USA has the highest % of people going to college than any country in the world, including European countries which has it for free. In many cases, the USA % doubles Eu countries with college graduates.

I think that has to do more with the culture of learning here, and the culture of college and the athletics that go with it and make it prestigious.

Well Scandinavian countries are doing rather fine and we have free education, healthcare etc. You can have socialist market economy and still have goverment doing fine financially. Not to mention USA has just as high debt ratio as many European countries and you don't have any of these benefits.

Exactly. Responsibility is independent of your ideological disposition or what you intend to do with your government, proving that the people complaining about socialism merely have an agenda against helping people

Only in a carte blanche approach.

It's also worth noting that the majority of cases where "Socialism Works" they actually tend to be more rightwing and libretarian then even the USA.

The few that seem to do better then the US in general seem to be Denmark, Australia and New Zealand, which all usually end up ahead of the US in that Heritage Foundation Economic freedoms index. (Countires that, if given the oppurtunity some of our most conservative anti socialsit economists would jump at the oppurtunity, healthcare, high taxes and all.)

It seems more like you can afford a lot of socialism if your pretty liberal and sensible in the other aspects of your economy....

Now asking the US government to implement a giant socialist system...

I wouldn't trust the US government to feed my gold fish when I go on vacation.

Now New Zealand, they can have comprable tax rates to us and somehow do tons more then we ever could. 

(Also I wouldn't rule out the small size of the countries that work.)