This message board is beginning to remind me of a certain song

"Fiftyseven channels and nothing's on"
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Bob DeWoody

Millions of users and only a handful can read and write it would seem.

It's because those of us with conservative views get hidden and banned.
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Karma, maybe?
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Socialism is what is ruining Europe.

In the past Sweden, for example, and other Scandinavian countries made socialism work because they had an ethnically common populace that had a good work ethic to go along with a proper sense of humanity . You may no longer have those ideal conditions and therefore should consider change.

I understand the 'locational socialism' -- When I lived in Connecticut back in the 70's, I was a moderate Republican (in the context of New England politics), I moved to Arizona and found that I was, by local standards, something of a left wing radical. Since then, while politics have varied a bit over the years, this state has swung even further to the right.

Nationally, notwithstanding the rants of the TeaPublican party partisans, the Democratic party has moved quite a bit toward centrist views. Budget proposals coming from Obama in the summer included something like a 30% revenue hike and a 70% budget cut - though most of that cut was more in prospective reductions of increases that have already been legislated.

The position of the TeaPublicans has consistently been for major cuts in entitlements and no tax changes (except those which shift the tax burden from the 'overburdened' wealthy to the 'freeloading' poor and middle class.

Recently, the Democrats have begun to react to the intransigence they encounter by suggesting approaches less centrist -- figuring that extremes met with compromises haven't yielded agreements.

What I hear from the flock of TeaPublican candidates for the TeaPublican party nomination is largely right wing sound bites not in the least responsive to the issues at stake -- so I've gotten a bit more strident myself.

In Australia a lot of my views would be considered conservative but by the standards of some on these boards I fly the "Hammer and Sickle" from the flagpole out the front of my house. This is because I believe that a "Society" is a co-operative group, not a bunch of solitary individuals sharing a street.

T.A.

One thing that is causing major problems in Europe is demographics -- whether that be from immigrants, or from the significant aging of the native population, it is clearly a challenge. Another issue is tax evasion of the existing tax structure (particularly true in southern Europe countries such as Greece and Italy). I suspect that tax evasion is actually focused on those 'ethnically common' folks as they have the money to hide. A third issue (and this applies to countries such as France, Italy and Spain, is the disincentives to hiring permanent employees -- this increases unemployment and thus undermines growth.

But to say that socialism is ruining Europe is both an oversimplification and an exaggeration of the role of socialism in the economic ailments of Europe.

Socialism is what is ruining Europe.

In the past Sweden, for example, and other Scandinavian countries made socialism work because they had an ethnically common populace that had a good work ethic to go along with a proper sense of humanity . You may no longer have those ideal conditions and therefore should consider change.

Fred, you might want to check your browser add ons and bars. I have none of the symptoms you seem to be experiencing. I have had in the past things install themselves to try and "help"(with help like that who needs hinderance).




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Janice

But to say that socialism is ruining Europe is both an oversimplification and an exaggeration of the role of socialism in the economic ailments of Europe.

Socialism is what is ruining Europe.

In the past Sweden, for example, and other Scandinavian countries made socialism work because they had an ethnically common populace that had a good work ethic to go along with a proper sense of humanity . You may no longer have those ideal conditions and therefore should consider change.

It just means that Italy under Berlustconi ended up being more than four times more socialist than Sweden. Oh wait....

Sweden 1.71%
US 1.97%
UK 2.26%

The lower the yield, the less the market is charging the respective government to borrow money, i.e. the more comfortable the market is with prevailing economic conditions ...

Zounds ! It means that the socialist policies of entitlements and handouts in the US has created proportionately more debt than even Sweden which does not pretend to be other than socialist.

Zounds ! It means that the socialist policies of entitlements and handouts in the US has created proportionately more debt than even Sweden which does not pretend to be other than socialist.

Zounds ! It means that the socialist policies of entitlements and handouts in the US has created proportionately more debt than even Sweden which does not pretend to be other than socialist.

Perhaps it's the difference in taxation policies that have created the greater debt in the US than Sweden...

Zounds ! It means that the socialist policies of entitlements and handouts in the US has created proportionately more debt than even Sweden which does not pretend to be other than socialist.

Perhaps it's the difference in taxation policies that have created the greater debt in the US than Sweden...

He's correct but the socialism that he is talking about is the handouts to the wealthy. The poor have little to do with the debt problems in this country other than being burdens with paying it instead of those that can most afford to do so.

"Fiftyseven channels and nothing's on"

Well, at least you responded to my post. I was a member of the community at Space.com until they decided to pull the plug on their forum site and become part of facebook. You are right, no one is forcing me to participate in these forums. And I wasn't criticizing as much as just making an observation about the lack of relevant subject matter.
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Bob DeWoody

Again... relevant to who.. or is it whom?
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