Mercogliano True Blog

 The detachment from reality has driven Canada, the United Kingdom, and much of the European Union to embrace forms of socialism antithetical to private property rights, individual freedom, and the free market. They heavily regulate their economies and stifle economic growth with "green energy" mandates, which drive away businesses and raise the cost of consumer goods. NATO welfare recipients have reallocated their defense budgets to "free" services for their own welfare states. Without U.S. military intervention to defend their sovereignty, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the EU would not have had the funds for public healthcare, housing, transportation, food, and other generous subsidies. In other words, U.S. taxpayers have subsidized socialism throughout the West, a system that would have been prohibitively expensive if NATO members had been forced to defend themselves. Likewise, Canada and Europe would not have been able to waste so much money on "global wa...