12/28 The failure of the German welfare cradle-to-grave system:
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGANETBV9AD.html
\_ Wow. Tax revenues are down and deficits are up, so the government
raises taxes?! Thank God that would never happen here! Get a life,
pal. A majority of states right here in the US are in the same
economic boat. How many of them have a "cradle-to-grave" welfare
system? Get a life.
\_ You're not making any sense. If you could calm down for the 30
seconds it might take to write a reply maybe we could discuss it.
In the mean time, take a look and see the long term fate of an
industrialized western nation with even greater taxes than here:
9% unemployment and zero growth to our lower taxes, lower
enumployment rate and above-zero growth.
\_ Austria +2.5%, Britain +3.4% , Spain +3.2% quit making shit up.
\_ Aren't you late for some cyrillic menorah reading or somesuch?
\_ you may or may not be right, but the existence of a recession
doesn't mean that's the "long term fate" of such a system. duh.
\_ I like it when the poor suffer and die. It's much better that
way. I mean, God must want it to happen, right?
\_ You can't legislate compassion.
\_ How much stuff is "enough"? I don't think growth and consumption
are always good. Look how overfed Americans are. We are dying
from our overconsumption.
\_ infidel defiler!!! you are now required to read
the Fountainhead and buy an SUV or suffer the
consequences. |