It is too diffident about its own traditions, too over-burdened by welfare commitments, too frightened of its Muslim populations.
The federal welfare commitments that Mr. Obama praised in observing that "a great nation must care for the vulnerable" also date back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's time.
The first is that Europe is committing demographic and economic suicide: the European birth rate is well below replacement level, and the economy is hog-tied by regulations and overburdened by welfare commitments.
In a blunt assessment of the situation today, Lagarde warned that the public debt levels across leading economies were at their highest in sixty years, throwing into question their ability to deliver welfare commitments and building new infrastructure.
A less radical approach exploits the multitude of relations in which preference stands with other concepts, some of were discussed above (choice, introspection, welfare, inferential commitments, values).
The right to work, the NHS, the welfare state, the commitment to international aid; Brown mentioned them all, and added "these were not forged outside the Union, but inside the Union, and none of us are any less Scots as a result".
The Pentagon should not be turned into a welfare agency; security commitments should not be treated as a form of international charity.
Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the U.S. some $1.6 trillion to date; overall costs including the projected welfare and benefits commitments to veterans out to 2040, continued payments to support the Afghan National Army, and U.S. support beyond 2014 amount to some $4-6 4-6 trillion
He added: "We are going to commit to delivering on more taxation and more welfare, that's the commitment that we are standing here to give - certainty to people in Scotland that they know, if they vote 'No' in September, it will lead to more radical change right across Scotland".
Ten-part satire on welfare and philanthropic programs, commitment of upper class toward helping the poor, dehumanization.
