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Mitch Daniels, President Bush’s outspoken budget director and rumored candidate in 2004 for governor of Indiana, recently bashed France and other European countries in a way that made Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s “Old Europe” remark look rather mild.
Invoking Rumsfeld’s “Old Europe” phrase, Daniels criticized European countries for their “willful self-denial of new technologies” in a speech last week at the 10th anniversary of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a Washington technology think tank. Daniels was talking mostly about the European Union’s rejection of American genetically modified food. But he then added another example to make sure his point was underscored.
“We created underarm deodorant, and the French turned that down too,” Daniels said to howls of laughter from the audience at Washingon’s Renaissance Mayflower Hotel.
Daniels also argued that an American entrepreneur can dream up a new business, start it up, have it fail, and then start over in a shorter time “than it takes to get a [business] license in most European countries.”
John Berlau is a writer for Insight.
