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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
Good for them. If they aren't getting what they want here they should go find some place they do like. Just that many fewer people I'll have to hear bitch about things. Maybe I should print up some cards with that website on it and pass them out.
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Absolutely! maybe we can send some of the whiners from here down to the great ole' south. Every time i hear somebody complaining about our healthcare, taxes, whatever, I just want to cringe. Firstly, they don't have a clue what it's like in other countries.
Secondly, with a population of 32 million, but a realistic taxable base of only the wage-earners of that population, plus what ever business/corp contributions can be collected, How are we ever to afford the platinum social services that seems to be expected? yes we are taxed to death. Apparantly all of the money that I make up until the middle of June goes into taxation of one sort or the other. But it used to be worse, I remember when the first week of july was tax free day, so things are changing. But theres a price to pay in level of service.
This is huge country, second largest in the world, and we have to support it's infrastructure on what is basically the same population of California (give or take). So if the social programmes developed post WWII have put us into debt, don't whine about it when the solutions cause less than superior service. Move, or contribute.
Anyways that's my rant. I 've seen the way things are in Europe, and China (where my parents come from) oh yes, and Korea and Sri Lanka, as well as the USA. So believe me that if you can take the weather, which isn't so dissimilar to most of the US, this is a fantastic country.
it's the whiners I don't like. Trade?
