On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Today, Jim Ryan gleaned this insight:
>
> > Now we're carrying it a bit too far. That is completely absurd.
> > Competition and free enterprise and doing things for profit is exactly why
> > this country is the best place it the world to live.
>
> Nonesense. Much of Europe has nearly as high or higher a standard of
> living as the U.S. and generally have shorter working weeks and more
> vacation. MOST other major countries have better-educated citizens than
> the U.S. Few countries have a crime rate that is as high or is increasing
> as rapidly as that of the U.S. (with Russia being a notable exception).
> Canada is as good and/or better than the U.S. in all of those categories
> as well.
>
> The reason this country is still the best place to live, if it indeed is,
> is because for two centuries the people of the United States had the
> strongest work ethic of any nation on Earth. People did what needed to be
> done very often because it was the right thing to do, NOT because there
> was profit in it. We had a two century head start.
It didn't hurt that we had natural resources out the wazzoo either.
Timber ? Got a bunch thanks. Gold ? Yup. Water ? Most places. Natural gas ?
We burn it at the well head where the oil comes from. Oil ? Sure except that
there's all this pesky natural gas in it. Fish ? ...
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