What a delightful question. Let me help. Europeans take four to seven weeks off because the law requires it. No rationing insulin. Just a functioning society run by people who occasionally represent the people who voted for them. Revolutionary concept, I know. Name one Republican who ran on genuinely helping working Americans. Just one. I have time. Your senators earn $174,000 a year. Several of them are worth hundreds of millions. You may want to sit with that arithmetic for a moment, because someone is clearly not doing their grocery shopping at Walmart. These are the people voting against your paid leave, your healthcare, your pension, then flying home on a Friday to tell you the Europeans are the problem. Meanwhile America runs 750 military bases worldwide on a Mastercard with $40 trillion on the balance and no plan whatsoever to pay it down. Not one trembling senator will touch the tax rates required to service that debt. Then came Iran. A sanctioned country with a fraction of your budget made the world’s most expensive military look like a very costly learning experience. You could have had the same quality of life as Europe. Your guys bought their fourth homes instead. Must be nice. It is. Enormously.