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Social programs include more than just safety nets, but need based scholarships provide incentive and opportunity for one to try to get a better education.
Germany, France, and anywhere in Scandinavia.
Germany & Scandinavia have excellent public education. We do not!
Greece & Spain needed to be bailed out, France looks like it is next.
So it's not settled wisdom that Western European model is a "success"
And BTW most of the medical & technological inventions came from America.
So we can not make sweeping statements regarding those systems. All have their shortcomings