to find the free association. now, as no less than adam smith heard, there are certain things that can finally be done by the government. but the constant equivalence of the value of what many europeans called solidarity and the equivalence of solidarity with spending issues, government programs and public sector agents is surely one of europe's biggest long-term headaches. if only because such expectations on the part of the state justified through regulatory and welfare state constant and endless expansion despite the fiscally untenable burden of breach which should now be obvious to even the most submissive of brussels -- unfortunately, it's not just most of europe's political class who think this way. millions of ordinary europeans share this mindset.