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Nothing, outside of how to loose a war with the British.
This is one of the conservative attitudes that I don't like. What can we learn from a bunch of commie Chinese, Russkies, Eurotrash, Camel Jockies, and South American bongo slappers? It is as if all social and political genius was born in America. Thankfully our founding fathers did not feel the same way. Sure, plenty of places are cautionary tales, but others provide good ideas too. As a generally wealthy and well educated country, you would think we would be curious. It seems so obvious, it is embarrassing. Conservatives often seem to be utterly lacking in global curiosity, which is very dangerous, IMO. It is like their minds are made up, and they have no use for other facts.
Back to Argentina. Perhaps we can learn how to develop a multicultural country that keeps the flavors alive. Argentina has distinctly Italian, German, even Welsh villages in the midst of the larger Spanish culture. Not saying they are better than the US, but go about it differently. I admit the biggest impression I have of the place is the women are HOT!!!!
Why doesn't the op place a post "What we can learn from Communist Red China", who, by the way, enjoys making our "job creators" billionaires. I'm also sure this communist country loves trickle down economics. And please posters, don't blab on about how China is not communist any longer, you'll sound like the idiot and sucker you are.
I remember seeing a recent profile on Argentina's president and it talked about how she was trying to make everything free or less expensive by subsidizing everything like trying to have free TV's for all. That subsidy money isn't going to last.
Argentina is doing pretty well, they have a trade surplus, a relatively low debt rate, a high growth rate etc. I don't think it makes sense to look at an isolated incident without context and judge that country based on that. Given their crisis 10 years ago, they have had a remarkable recovery.
This is one of the conservative attitudes that I don't like. What can we learn from a bunch of commie Chinese, Russkies, Eurotrash, Camel Jockies, and South American bongo slappers? It is as if all social and political genius was born in America. Thankfully our founding fathers did not feel the same way. Sure, plenty of places are cautionary tales, but others provide good ideas too. As a generally wealthy and well educated country, you would think we would be curious. It seems so obvious, it is embarrassing. Conservatives often seem to be utterly lacking in global curiosity, which is very dangerous, IMO. It is like their minds are made up, and they have no use for other facts.
Back to Argentina. Perhaps we can learn how to develop a multicultural country that keeps the flavors alive. Argentina has distinctly Italian, German, even Welsh villages in the midst of the larger Spanish culture. Not saying they are better than the US, but go about it differently. I admit the biggest impression I have of the place is the women are HOT!!!!
They also have the largest Jewish and I believe the largest Arab population in Latin America. Not to mention large communities of Greeks and Armenians.
What they don't have a lot of interesting enough is Blacks.
Argentina is doing pretty well, they have a trade surplus, a relatively low debt rate, a high growth rate etc. I don't think it makes sense to look at an isolated incident without context and judge that country based on that. Given their crisis 10 years ago, they have had a remarkable recovery.
Low debt rate? Well I guess if you consider renouncing on your debts and being closed off to capital markets a good thing.
Argentina is doing pretty well, they have a trade surplus,
As far as trade. Keep an eye on the impact of Argentina's current trade policy being used to maintain that trade surplus. Many feel their trade policy may have a negative impact on needed imports.
What the hell are you talking about? People throw the word socialism around like it is some kind of disease. You don't have the faintest clue in what socialism is. If you were the only person in a million square miles, living alone then there would be absolutely no socialism period. The fact that millions of working human beings live very damn close to each other, work for each other, provide services to each other and above all pay taxes that provide police protection, education, healthcare, fire protection, libraries, infrastructure, on and on is socialism. We as humans do not live in a vacuum. Now if you want to throw the word communism, fascism around...
Did you even read the entire thread and remember the second post made?
It's you folks that are constantly referring to OTHER countries and their "socialistic tendancies" with the negative connotation on the word
"socialism" in the same context McCarthy used the word "communism" to conjure all sorts of hatred.
My post is an attempt to point out that using the markers your citizens commonly use when describing these other countries as socilaist, would have you sailing in the same boat!
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