@ posts above: I don't think the US is the best country in political views nor money nor society.
There are indeed quite some people that run for president which I don't think are going to be good presidents. Most of their ideas aren't great either in my opinion. The health care for one isn't all that great in the US (if you don't have a clue, watch Michael Moore's Sicko) and some of the politicians are trying their best to change it, but they either can't change it, get stopped by other politicians or get paid by the medical companies to not go on with their plan to change it because the medical companies get paid lots and lots of money from sick and dying people. This is only one thing, but there are some more reasons why the US isn't the best country for politics in my opinion.
The US may have much money, or not I don't really know and it doesn't bother me at all, but I heard on the news that there was some sort of money crisis in the US. Where is all that money? Is there a solution or are they just going to print some more money like it's just some documents that have to be printed? I think the money goes to the people out there that are already so rich that they don't even know what to do with their money. The people of the government, insurance companies, etc. The divide between poor people and rich people in the US seems not only to be huge, but even growing in my eyes. The rich people only get more money and the poor only less, and the US gets more debts.
Last but not least, the society. If I compare the society here in the Netherlands with the society in the US I see one big difference along more smaller differences. In the Netherlands people must be insured for much things, in the US much people aren't insured at all which brings a great risk. If you get sick here and need expensive treatments and meds, the insurance will pay for it, where in the US they will find a reason why they do not have to pay for it. If you can't work here for certain reasons you get benefits, not in the US. We might pay more tax here then in the US, but I think the society is better because of it because we pay the taxes not only to help ourselves in a way, but also to help someone else in a way.
Of course this is my opinion.
@ topic: I don't think it's a good idea because the countries are so different even though it may not seem like it. Apart from the languages and cultures I bet that most of the countries in Europe have a different way of dealing with things especially the governments. Wouldn't that cause chaos if there would be one government existent of so much different people from so much former countries with so much different ways of handling tasks and problems. I just don't think it would work that well.
