With Congress and President Obama in full battle mode over Obamacare to complete the conversion of the United States into a European welfare state, Dutch King Willem-Alexander delivered a nationally televised speech Sept. 16 in which he declared the European welfare state dead.

The message, written by the Dutch government, acknowledged that current levels of state spending for unemployment benefits and subsidized health care are unsustainable.

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