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Europe’s Riots, America’s Future
On Oct 1, 10:55*am, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote: Europe’s Riots, America’s Future September 30, 2010 by Dan Mitchell "Riots and protests have swept across Europe, as populations lured into government dependency are upset that there’s no longer enough money to maintain the existing level of redistribution. Here’s an excerpt from a BBC report: * * Tens of thousands of people from around Europe have marched across Brussels in a protest against spending cuts by some EU governments. Spain has held a general strike, with protesters in Barcelona clashing with police and torching a police car. Other protests against austerity measures have been held in Greece, Italy, the Irish Republic and Latvia. …In Greece and the Irish Republic, unemployment figures are at their highest level in 10 years, while Spain’s unemployment has doubled in just three years. …Police sealed off the EU headquarters and barricaded banks and shops ahead of the protest in Brussels. It was described by unions as a day of action under the slogan “No to austerity, priority to jobs and growth”. Americans may be tempted to smugly scoff at Europe’s troubles, but it’s just a matter of time before the same problems afflict America. This chart is based on Congressional Budget Office projections (an optimistic “baseline” scenario and a more realistic “alternative” scenario) showing how the burden of federal government spending is about to skyrocket because of demographic changes and entitlement programs. In the optimistic scenario, the federal government climbs to 45 percent of GDP. Add in state and local government, and that means the total burden of government will be about 60 percent of GDP – higher than France, Sweden, and Greece today. In the less optimistic scenario, the total burden of government will be in uncharted territory, perhaps akin to Cuba or North Korea. Needless to say, America will be convulsed by riots well before this point. The solution, of course, is to limit the growth of government. During the Bush-Obama years, howerver, politicians have been heading in the wrong direction. The only bright side, at least for those who feel good when others suffer, is that Europe’s welfare states will have descended into social chaos and barbarism by the time the riots start in America." source: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4zEvleths273a10 read interesting readers comments Wait until they try raising USA petrol prices up to European levels - as they should. |
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Europe's Riots, America's Future
Surreyman wrote:
On Oct 1, 10:55 am, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote: Europe's Riots, America's Future September 30, 2010 by Dan Mitchell "Riots and protests have swept across Europe, as populations lured into government dependency are upset that there's no longer enough money to maintain the existing level of redistribution. Here's an excerpt from a BBC report: Who pays the government? The citizens via their taxes obviously, So who is the master here? The citizen obviously. In democracies the citizen rules. MPs and other representatives are *our* employees not the other way round. Never forget that. They are free loaders living off and playing on the ignorance of hoi polloi. |
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Europe's Riots, America's Future
On 10/1/2010 6:49 PM, Yitzhak Isaac Goldstein wrote:
In alt.activism.death-penalty Lou wrote: Surreyman wrote: On Oct 1, 10:55 am, "O'Donovan, PJ, wrote: Europe's Riots, America's Future September 30, 2010 by Dan Mitchell "Riots and protests have swept across Europe, as populations lured into government dependency are upset that there's no longer enough money to maintain the existing level of redistribution. Here's an excerpt from a BBC report: Who pays the government? The citizens via their taxes obviously, So who is the master here? The citizen obviously. In democracies the citizen rules. MPs and other representatives are *our* employees not the other way round. Never forget that. They are free loaders living off and playing on the ignorance of hoi polloi. If you really think that in France, the citizen is 'the master', then you're not only as thick as **** (which we already knew), but completely delusional. Unlike you, I'm French. You're just a pretentious wannabe who boasts about his French and then petulantly killfiles anyone who rips that ludicrous claim to shreds. Y. ???? Sambo |
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On 01/10/2010 23:44, Lou Ravi wrote:
Surreyman wrote: On Oct 1, 10:55 am, "O'Donovan, PJ, wrote: Europe's Riots, America's Future September 30, 2010 by Dan Mitchell "Riots and protests have swept across Europe, as populations lured into government dependency are upset that there's no longer enough money to maintain the existing level of redistribution. Here's an excerpt from a BBC report: Who pays the government? The citizens via their taxes obviously, So who is the master here? The citizen obviously. In democracies the citizen rules. MPs and other representatives are *our* employees not the other way round. Never forget that. They are free loaders living off and playing on the ignorance of hoi polloi. Ignorance and stupidity. Since they are always a majority, in a democracy the ruling class is safe. -- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show |
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Europe's Riots, America's Future
As subscribers of rte have seen, a disproportionally high number of
mentally disturbed people from the United States project their ill health in their messages when [cross]posting to the group. Some of them have been around a decade or so. Pretty hefty portion of their lives wasted away. Roughly and clearly more than 50% of all the crazy tirade (about Lincoln, Osama, Obama, moslems and so worth) originate to news servers residing inside the borders of the United States. US Americans constitute a couple of percent of all the usenet subscribers and yet their share among nut-cases is about 1000% higher. What makes US Americans so vulnerable to mental illnesses? Is there any cure for their less balanced behaviour? Is the American healthcare authority equipped with sufficient resources to rehabilitate these poor sods? Heal the sick and miserable. Give them some hope to return to civilisation as robust and independent people capable of standing on their own two feet. It looks very peculiar that one relatively restricted (even if large) area on earth contributes about as many nut-cases as rest of the world. Quite alarming actually. |
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"Markku Grönroos" wrote in message ... What makes US Americans so vulnerable to mental illnesses? The lack of health care in the US. |
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On 02/10/2010 06:59, Markku Grönroos wrote:
As subscribers of rte have seen, a disproportionally high number of mentally disturbed people from the United States project their ill health in their messages when [cross]posting to the group. Some of them have been around a decade or so. Pretty hefty portion of their lives wasted away. Roughly and clearly more than 50% of all the crazy tirade (about Lincoln, Osama, Obama, moslems and so worth) originate to news servers residing inside the borders of the United States. US Americans constitute a couple of percent of all the usenet subscribers and yet their share among nut-cases is about 1000% higher. What makes US Americans so vulnerable to mental illnesses? Is there any cure for their less balanced behaviour? Is the American healthcare authority equipped with sufficient resources to rehabilitate these poor sods? Heal the sick and miserable. Give them some hope to return to civilisation as robust and independent people capable of standing on their own two feet. It looks very peculiar that one relatively restricted (even if large) area on earth contributes about as many nut-cases as rest of the world. Quite alarming actually. I think your remarks in Finnish made more sense |
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Europe's Riots, America's Future
On Oct 2, 4:50*am, "K K" wrote:
"Markku Grönroos" wrote in message ... What makes US Americans so vulnerable to mental illnesses? The lack of health care in the US. Where in the US is there a lack of health care? |
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Europe's Riots, America's Future
On 2/10/10 18:11, in article
, "Werner" wrote: Where in the US is there a lack of health care? Low income areas. Either rural or urban. |
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Europe's Riots, America's Future
On Oct 2, 1:05*pm, Earl Evleth wrote:
On 2/10/10 18:11, in article , "Werner" wrote: Where in the US is there a lack of health care? Low income areas. Either rural or urban. I have seen no evidence or reports of such. |
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