That webmaster is the guy whose health care Michael Moore donated despite the website’s attempts to discredit him.

–Adam, you are absolutely right in nearly everything you have said. One of the great benefits Europeans have is a standard of living that enables travel to vastly different cultures in close proximity. This makes a huge difference in one’s worldview.

In effect, America’s insularity has always been a double-edged sword, and a primary negative of that is the intellectual and informational disinterest of much of its citizenry. Corporate-controlled media conributes too–because the USA’s media is almost all for-profit, its informational output tends to be something of a feedback loop that covers what it thinks Americans want–which is part of the reason the international news coverage has been radically reduced in this country over the last 30 years. And it’s why health care is what it is here–the corporate bigwigs do a lot of lobbying politicians to keep the system whthe same, and the media who supoort the corporations parrot the idea that health care for all is “socialist,” hence, “un-American.”

The result is a populace that is under the control of its government, the corporations that support it, all the while being told through the complicit media that this is “FREEDOM.”

You should look up the writings of Noam Chomsky if you want answers on how the USA really works.

If Americans didn’t have cable TV, they wouldn’t know what to do with themselves when they come home exhausted from another unfufilling day at the office.

155 channels and the American rat-race work-environment are part of the same system: manipulation by powerful forces with the illusion of choice.

Assigned generalities to both sides are not very informative about any society.

If you look for the worst of each society, you will probably find it.

this mean french go heaven straight after lay around smoke cigarettes drink wine flirt sexy live life and produce more laff much. americans experience wonderfulness of TV characters talk about next day at water cooler, no afford real experience.

Hadn’t heard that before.

I like it.

35.1 million people lived in households considered to be food insecure.Of those 35.1 million, 22.7 million are adults (10.4 percent of all adults) and 12.4 million are children (16.9 percent of all children).The number of people in the worst-off households (previously called “food insecure with hunger” and now called “very low food security” households) rose in 2005, from 10.7 to 10.8 million. Food stamps increased with nearly 50%.I have even seen higher figures from other organisations but i’ll be generous and take the lower one’s.

http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger_index.html

http://www.frac.org/State_Of_States/2006/states/US.pdf

http://www.frac.org/Press_Release/11.15.06.html

If you consider yourself the richest, best country in the world, why not feed your own people?And please if any rebutt’s come, separate EU from Europe.

really as many troops as the US, my link shows 2,600 troops compared to 11,250 american.http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/16626

Good post.

Hope to hear more from you.

As to this crap about the lazy Europeans not getting the glory of fighting in Iraq… remember Afghanistan? You know the country where the terrorists who attacked the States came from? Why are there as many Canadian troops there as Americans? It’s your war. Finish your job there first, then brag about your productivity.

as Far as universal health care I say go for it, as long as everybody pays the same for it.. everyone should take 30 dollars a week out of their check..

rich or poorthey all pay the same..

It will be akin of what happened in the 1980s when the Americans studied the extremely efficient Japanese industrial model and took the best parts out of it and adapted.

I doubt we will ever have a pure socialistic nanny society like some countries in Europe, but the transition will most likely be a hybrid of choice and government control.

However, there are quite a few transplants from Europe, Germans, Swedes, French, Russians, Irish, English, etc.

The Scots and Irish have a huge influence in the United States when it comes celebrating their heritage. St. Patrick’s Day being an example. Also, the hundreds of bagpipe and drum corps around the U.S.A.

They still have fests in towns that were primarily built on Germanic populations and in Kansas, the town called Little Sweden still has Swedish restaurants and practices some of their old customs.

There are still ethnic Germans in Kansas that still speak their old native tongues daily although rapidly diminishing.

I hope you are incorrect about these so called faker’s and i personally dont understand why anyone would try to do that.I cant see what the gain could be.Nvm, i’m going to eat dinner and i’ll try to come back tomorrow if the discussion is still going on.