European maturity…

Even among all the SNL’s and other comedians’ takes about our do-nothing congress people and their squabbling over the government shutdown and debt ceiling, I found three news items especially amusing last week. First, some kind Facebook friend re-posted a story about how some governmental spokesperson from Norway wondered what the problem is, because they tax the rich and oil companies heavily in order to finance their social programs. Second, a Greek politician was wondering how the U.S. co...