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What do most European nations do better than we do in America?
* Provide health care to many more people at a level of quality equal to what average (not wealthy) Americans receive for half the cost that we pay
* Educate their youth to the level of our college sophomores, two years earlier than we do
* Use far less energy and other resources per capita than we do
* Dispose of far less garbage per capita than we do
* Achieve greater socioeconomic equality without depriving citizens of their right to choose an occupation and receive just rewards for their efforts
* Spend more on basic scientific research that will lead them into the future of the global economy rather than blowing it all on a massive military
* Maintain neutrality with respect to the internal affairs of sovereign nations while the USA consistently meddles, conducts covert operations and invades them
Those are just off the top of my head.
For those of you knee-jerk "love it or leave it" people who are about to write "Why don't you move to Europe", please send me the funds to do so. French lessons would be a plus. Thanks in advance!
I was just thinking how nice it is that you didn't dig any deeper than the top of your head. It may have really got serious if you had.
Because we don't want to be treated as chattel. This country was founded on freedom for the individual, not collectivism.
The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law.
The principle of man’s individual rights represented the extension of morality into the social system—as a limitation on the power of the state, as man’s protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history.
All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary coexistence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man’s life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man’s life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights. “Man’s Rights,”The Virtue of Selfishness
Liberalism stands in absolute contrast to Communism. You can find that information in any dictionary or encyclopedia. I leave the exercise of learning to you.
Classical liberalism, sure...
Liberals today however are not classical liberalism, but a modern liberalism which has no relation to that of classical liberalism. So, your claim is false.
Modern Liberalism is very close to that of the many entry forms of communism.
What do most European nations do better than we do in America?
* Provide health care to many more people at a level of quality equal to what average (not wealthy) Americans receive for half the cost that we pay
* Educate their youth to the level of our college sophomores, two years earlier than we do
* Use far less energy and other resources per capita than we do
* Dispose of far less garbage per capita than we do
* Achieve greater socioeconomic equality without depriving citizens of their right to choose an occupation and receive just rewards for their efforts
* Spend more on basic scientific research that will lead them into the future of the global economy rather than blowing it all on a massive military
* Maintain neutrality with respect to the internal affairs of sovereign nations while the USA consistently meddles, conducts covert operations and invades them
Those are just off the top of my head.
For those of you knee-jerk "love it or leave it" people who are about to write "Why don't you move to Europe", please send me the funds to do so. French lessons would be a plus. Thanks in advance!
For the same reason I am "afraid" of using blood letting and leaches to cure most medical conditions- it doesn't work.
What do most European nations do better than we do in America?
* Provide health care to many more people at a level of quality equal to what average (not wealthy) Americans receive for half the cost that we pay FAIL
* Educate their youth to the level of our college sophomores, two years earlier than we do Fire our Teacher's union.
* Use far less energy and other resources per capita than we do Because they have nothing.
* Dispose of far less garbage per capita than we do We know, it still sits in the streets
* Achieve greater socioeconomic equality(Not into COMMUNISM, but thanks anyway) without depriving citizens of their right to choose an occupation and receive just rewards for their efforts
* Spend more on basic scientific research that will lead them into the future of the global economy rather than blowing it all on a massive military Many have us as their defense militarily.
* Maintain neutrality with respect to the internal affairs of sovereign nations while the USA consistently meddles, conducts covert operations and invades them Meanwhile their Muslim populations grow as their countries die, but at least there is lots of Muslim violence.
Those are just off the top of my head. European Muslims would love to give you a trim below your neck.
For those of you knee-jerk "love it or leave it" people who are about to write "Why don't you move to Europe", please send me the funds to do so. French lessons would be a plus. Thanks in advance!
Give me the funds, pay me, I can't do it or earn a nickle myself... SHOCKER. We therefore get your post.
Just look how great socialism is working in places like Greece and Spain... Inspirational it is...
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