At 10:07 AM 2/18/2010, b_s-wilk wrote: >I never told you to emigrate. What I said is for you to look at countries that >are doing better than the US both financially and socially, and you will find >a balance between social good and corporate support through effective but not >stifling regulation and partnerships. Instead, we're stuck with dominant >corporate representation in Congress, conservative corporate media, and a >general public that seems to accept that as being OK. It's not.
But the other countries have totally different circumstances, so it's an apples/oranges situation. Other countries don't have a real military, don't have the expenses. Other countries own oil that they drill for and sell. We prohibit drilling on federal lands. . . . There are lots of complaints about the socialism in other countries. The "comparisons" are drawn by folks with a "score sheet" which is not the same score sheet that folks use when deciding where they want to make their permanent home, here or there. . . . If you like their socialism better than our capitalism, please emigrate. It would be a terrible world if every country were a clone of the next one, and all of the countries were "perfect." We are the best country in the world in terms of ability to create wealth. Everything done to redistribute wealth seems to stifle incentive, and thereby reduce total wealth as well. Each country picks its own point on the curve. Fred Holmes ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
