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Unfortunately the Europeans can't sustain what you love about Europe, something for nothing. Protugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain are on the verge of insolvency. The UK has to dramatically revamp the NHS to keep it afloat.
By the way, your more people=more GDP is pretty much wrong. China has about a billion more people than the US, economic systems means something. The Chinese are begining to understand that, that is why they are catching up to the US. But using your logic their economy should be 4 times the US or EU.
Well, one thing Glasvegas did not clarify is that Europe is very varied. Greece seems patently corrupt. Ireland, Portugal, and Spain were hammered by exposure to the housing bubble of British equity wealth. The Germans are having to bail them out. No single country serves to describe Europe, and the Germans and Scandinavians seem to be perpetual overacheivers. You could cherry pick European vignettes and be quite wrong about the whole. Far better to travel to some of them and see for yourself.
Well, one thing Glasvegas did not clarify is that Europe is very varied. Greece seems patently corrupt. Ireland, Portugal, and Spain were hammered by exposure to the housing bubble of British equity wealth. The Germans are having to bail them out. No single country serves to describe Europe, and the Germans and Scandinavians seem to be perpetual overacheivers. You could cherry pick European vignettes and be quite wrong about the whole. Far better to travel to some of them and see for yourself.
I have traveled to Europe, quite a bit. Of course they are varied but the fact remains with static or declining populations in most European countries, their generous social benefits are unsustainable. Even the overacheiving Germans recognize that fact.
I have traveled to Europe, quite a bit. Of course they are varied but the fact remains with static or declining populations in most European countries, their generous social benefits are unsustainable. Even the overacheiving Germans recognize that fact.
Basically human are not eqaul in ability.,drive a nor intelligents. Some are handicapped at birth or later. Its really those who have the abilty to contribute to the general welfare but don't that distrubs. Basicalkly enomiies collpaqse when there are too many dependents and of cousre that maens less for those who are disabled. Bill Clinton is travelig the country. One of his main pointsd is that indivduals need to do more because Gobentmnt control to poverty is that 80% of funding goes to urban areas with 20% of poverty. Two areas have 80% but get 20% of funding. The politics of poverty he called it.That is government redistribution. Its always and always will be politcally driven by politcal power.
Some people are born with a natural gift for spelling and grammar while others just aren't. Either that or they are too lazy to proofread!
Why do you think there is such a range of acheivement and wealth in America? It seem like we are a nation of the obese and ultramarathoners, nonintellectuals and super scholars, working poor and uber rich,etc., etc.
It seems to affect the political process strongly. Although most Americans would consider themselves much more strongly egalitarian than the Europeans, which a feudal system, we are nonetheless highly stratified.
The mean means little. The median American is most of us, and that person is cash poor, debt laden, and worried. I guess I am wondering why we have allowed such tremendous inequalities to develop in our country. Economically, but in many other dimensions of human achievement.
It seems to me that Canada, the European, and East Asian countries are more equal, whereas Latin American is even more extreme. It seems to be that we are heading toward the latter. Do you agree, disagree? And where do you think we are headed?
this is the land of opportunity.................if you got $$$$$
that's why so many wealthy people from around the world come here to get even richer
an above average poor kid can achieve wealth in this country with, smarts, a good work ethic and a few breaks.
A rich kid with average intelligence and an average work ethic can also achieve wealth in this country by simply not screwing up
That post was pretty horrendous in terms of spelling, and I am not picky. Are people posting more from blackberries or voice recognition these days? My boss has sent me several e-mails lately horrendously laden with errors. I am assuming it is something crazy with her blackberry. So, I suspect the person can spell ok, just something went haywire.
one of my best friends is a pothead college drop out and he's about to take his parents machine shop business over at 31 years of age.
if he grew up in my house he would be working at a gas station but because of his dad he will make more money than I will ever see if he doesn't drive the place into the ground.
But how easy is it? Should it be made harder, or easier?
Do we want more people to manage to do it, or less?
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