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The question is, is it easy enough? When a greater share of the population climb it in other western countries, America has lost something America was always tops at.
Yes, our acceptance of the welfare state has done damage to the American work ethic.
Of course, when your PPP is already at or near the top, upward mobility of the general populace becomes more difficult since their parents, on average, started at a higher level than the parents of the current European worker.
Your link is quite long on opinions but short on facts.
It is quite easy for anybody in America to climb the social ladder. Millions do it every year. So you should be asking why people don't take advantage of the opportunities they have. They are there.
Maybe they can't afford them
Another aspect might be the spectrum of high-school quality. While there are great high schools in the US, too, there are also a lot of really bad ones. In Europe the extremes are a lot less extreme. People just wouldn't accept a crappy school for their kids. We are an aging and in many regions shrinking continent, we can't afford to write off an entire generation or minority...
Keep lying. I ain't dumb enough to fall for it. Once again, only Norway, a homogenous country compared to the US, has a higher PPP and the median income of Americans is higher than practically every nation in Europe also. Just try telling the truth for once. Lying to justify immoral legalized theft..tsk, tsk.
Oh stop calling yourself dumb, you are so hard on yourself. I know its hard to come to the conclusion that this country is in decline. Fortunately i am way over this point. Yes of course median is higher over here. Its because corporations barely pay taxes. In Europe they do.
They don't. If you calculate what they get back through taxes, they earn way more than the american middle class. America grew faster (not anymore), because America loves the rich and doesn't give a rip about the little guy.
If that's really true, why in America does "the little guy" they get nearly $15 in federal government services and benefits for every $1 in federal taxes paid?
Looks more like America bends over backwards to give mass quantities of freebies to the little guy, and TAKES A LOT of money from the rich while giving them significantly less (only $0.32 for every $1 in federal taxes paid) federal government services and benefits in return. America LOVES the poor. That's why America enables and encourages them to breed beyond all reasonable proportion.
I've read through several pages of this thread and all I have to say is that this is pathetic.
To the OP:
You seem to post a great number of threads about the United States. It seems that perhaps you have some type of strange paranoia or obsession with it.
The European Union has FAR MORE than its fair share of problems to deal with currently. Perhaps you should focus your efforts on dealing with yourselves first, and then you can worry about others. You seem to have ample time on your hands, so get to it.
Please take your trolling antics elsewhere.
I'm not trolling. I guess pointing out valid facts you consider trolling. Yes the EU has problems they are just not as severe as in America. And in conclusion, I don't think it's any of your business for what I have time for.
If that's really true, why in America does "the little guy" they get nearly $15 in federal government services and benefits for every $1 in federal taxes paid?
Looks more like America bends over backwards to give mass quantities of freebies to the little guy, and TAKES A LOT of money from the rich while giving them significantly less (only $0.32 for every $1 in federal taxes paid) federal government services and benefits in return. America LOVES the poor. That's why America enables and encourages them to breed beyond all reasonable proportion.
Yes we give some to the little guy. However in the wrong way. Give a man fish and you feed him for the day, teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Education is the solution for this problem.
That's why our society is failing. Europeans think we are dumb, uncultured and primitive for a reason.
Aren't you European???
A post you made on 30 December 2011:
"As a European to watch this, is very disturbing." (Post # 150 on the thread entitled, "Why do Conservatives hate Europe?" from right here in the Politics and Other Controversies section.)
Mixing things up are we? So, it's obvious that you're lying that you're American. What else are you lying about?
You're a troll, just trying to stir things up.
Like I stated previously, please take your trolling antics elsewhere.
I'd appreciate if a mod would delete this troll please.
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