Ever wonder why it's so hard for the United States to pass public policies -- particularly economic ones -- and relatively easy for European nations to do so? Well, part of it is our constitutional system -- which separates power -- as opposed to Europe's parliamentarian system, which concentrates or fuses power. Part of it also is the United States' anti-state political culture: Americans generally want and expect economic issues and problems to be resolved in the private realm, not the public realm. In the United States, it is always: private sector first, public sector second.
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