The Patient English

In the aftermath of World War II, America fearing a growing Soviet menace, poured billions of dollars into rebuilding former Axis members, Germany and Japan, rapidly and vastly increasing their prosperity, while the people of ally Great Britain still had to endure rationing. While our erstwhile enemies became world economic powerhouses, the United Kingdom languished in a self-imposed socialist haze until Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revitalized the economy through privatization and loosening the chains of strangling regulation. It is a shame that the United States has chosen the path of postwar Britain, right to the National Health aspect with our labyrinthine Obama Care at a time when more economic liberty could save us.