Originally posted by Wien_Sean:
I'd rather have social medicine and education than special interests running my country. What exactly do you think you are giving up with Social systems? I have no voice in the US, expensive health care, and a crap primary education system. Over here they have better political representation (yes there exists other system outside the two party system), better education, and people are treated if sick. This is a liberal society based on liberal values just was the US was over 200 years ago. Stop seeing Socialism as enemy to liberty. Tell me, which system would you rather live in? Don't get me wrong, I love the US but it needs a lot of work right now.



Since you had a good time at MY country's expense, I'll share a few of my own humble thoughts. The concern with socialism is the classic failure to recognise that man is by nature..lazy. Socialism promotes the "minimum to get by" attitude. 35 hour work weeks, lousy employment rates, poor GDP result. Allow others to protect and defend you, allow others to invent, develope new tech that you benifit from, develope new medicines to save your lives while you reap the discount of free R&D. With your increased "free time" you countrymen discuss at length the latest highly biased newspaper editorials and pontificate on the humerous American characture they have generated and their own moral superiority. It is no coincidence that one of the few contributions Austria has made to medicine is psychoanalysis. And when America suceeds at spreading democracy, they will attempt to claim credit. Euros too quickly point a finger at America for the ills of the world and too soon forget the Amercia that stood against Nazi and Soviet expansion. We rarely give much pause to this Eurocentric self indugence as we are busy changing the world. Which reminds me, I have a bunch of sick people with no insurance to provide free care for.

P.S. Swartzenegger had you guys pegged...

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