This just in from the Department of Been There, Done That...

"I left Europe four decades ago because socialism has killed opportunities there," Schwarzenegger said. "In recent years Europe has realized it's mistakes ... and Senator Obama says he wants to pursue the same 'spread the wealth' ideas that Europe had decades ago." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Over my time here on this big blue marble I've talked with, or read the words of, folks who have lived outside of America. South and Central America, Western and Eastern Europe, Africa and the former Soviet Union. These people have lived under the socio-political and economic systems that some in America, like Sen. Obama, want us to live under. These folks know from firsthand experience, as opposed to academic theory, what these systems are all about and they know what utter failures these systems are. Gov. Schwarzenegger points out the irony that these people just don't get. In their decades-long struggle to bring socialism/Marxism/communism to America, they are blind to the fact that the folks who already had it have figured out it doesn't work.

A wise man learns from his mistakes. But a smart man learns from the other poor bastard's mistakes.