Hi, Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 3:29:29 PM, Collin wrote:
> Germany (and Europe in general, as well as US) could out-produce > and out-engineer Japan & China. It takes one thing. Lower taxes. > Give people the freedom to grow themselves and they will. Give them > the opportunity to both succeed and fail and they'll always try > harder. Being under socialism must be depressing. (I've friends > from France who are seeking US citizenship for that very reason -- > open opportunity.) We have functioning democracies over here. If people pay high taxes it's because they wanted what they buy, and voted freely for them. Obviously some people have a different opinion, and they can leave if they want to, but you're making a big mistake to generalise from the experience of a few acquaintances. I know several American people and families who have taken up permanent residence in the UK because they prefer it to the US. But I don't generalise from this to suppose that being under American capitalism must be depressing*. I'm curious to know if you've ever been to Europe (or outside the USA at all) and can talk from actual experience of this supposedly depressing socialism, or whether you're just regurgitating your own propaganda. *although I do think that, it's for other reasons. And I do at least have a little bit of actual personal experience of the USA, and of working with US citizens for a US company. -- Cheers, Bob
