Bollocks. Corporate Britain has a huge drinking culture. In some industries it wasn't unknown for workers to have six pints for lunch. I think America is the only place where adults will go to a restaurant and drink soft drinks.
Maybe successful American companies should follow the law then? Perhaps the problem is that US companies are so used to being able to do whatever they want with nothing more than a slap on the wrist by the US government, they just can't understand why other countries don't allow them to break the law with impunity.
You think a party representing 4% of a nation's people should have the last say in who becomes Prime Minister? Do you think that's fair?
A party representing 4% of the people has 4% of the say, if that happens to tip the balance of a coalition over into a majority then so be it. They can only be part of a government that collectively has over 50% of the vote behind it.
Meanwhile, US elections can be decided by a few votes in crucial swing states.
As for the education, U.S.A. spends more per student than any other country (including the socialist European ones). If there are any problems with the public school system, it's not a matter of funding, as you suggest.
I never said it was a matter of funding. Stop putting words in my mouth. If you're spending twice as much for inferior results, then how can you call yourself a great nation? The same goes for healthcare, you spend twice as much as anyone else yet leave tens of millions uncovered. A truly great nation would get it the other way round.
As for health care, why is it that nearly all new, more effective drugs are invented by American companies and, all over the world, for the best medical care money can buy, people come to America?
The best healthcare money can buy is only relevant to the mega-rich. A great nation looks after all its citizens, not just those with the biggest bank account.
Socialism may help you provide leeches and substandard medical care to all the masses, but it's only by the brilliance of capitalism and individualism that good medical technologies can be invented in the first place.
It's interesting then how many technologies are invented by universities are other government-funded bodies, even in the US. Capitalism isn't interested in curing diseases, it's more profitable to cure the symptoms, and give people erections.
I don't know about Sweden, but in the UK, a government job generally means cast-iron job security and a gold-plated pension paid for by private sector workers. And all you have to do is vote Labour every four or five years to keep the gravy train on the rails.
Cutting taxes doesn't increase the amount of money available, it just changes how it's spent. If anything, cutting taxes could damage the economy, as government will spend everything it taxes whilst the people might just save it.
America is the greatest country in the world in the human history
That can't even provide healthcare and decent education to all of its citizens?
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Sometimes, under the right circumstances, in the right places, you can make more money being unemployed than doing a low paid job, especially when you have kids.
If you accept that it is a valid thing for Quebec to promote and protect the French language, then the law makes a lot of sense. Just like mandating that restaurants provide both English and French on their menus, this helps prevent the English language from squeezing French out of usage.
I'd like a reverse law for posh restaurants in English-speaking countries.
Who the fuck measures entertainment in hours? That's like judging restaurants based on how long it takes your meal to arrive. A good two hour movie is way more entertaining than a hundred hours collecting murloc foreskins.
The Guardian is the best newspaper if you're part of the upper-middle-class urban liberal elite. The comment section is the worst I've ever read, Labour apologists like Toynbee copy/pasting the same article every week.
They constantly publish articles whining about tax avoidance, whilst not paying any tax themselves.
That would just make companies hire the workers in India in the first place, without going to America at all. And it would open the floodgates to tit for tat protectionism.
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So what? I'm pretty sure any online merchant system can handle a thousand numbers.
People who hate the sea and everything in it.
Bollocks. Corporate Britain has a huge drinking culture. In some industries it wasn't unknown for workers to have six pints for lunch. I think America is the only place where adults will go to a restaurant and drink soft drinks.
50%
I don't think that nine million Euros is much to a government with a budget of hundreds of billions.
Maybe successful American companies should follow the law then? Perhaps the problem is that US companies are so used to being able to do whatever they want with nothing more than a slap on the wrist by the US government, they just can't understand why other countries don't allow them to break the law with impunity.
A party representing 4% of the people has 4% of the say, if that happens to tip the balance of a coalition over into a majority then so be it. They can only be part of a government that collectively has over 50% of the vote behind it.
Meanwhile, US elections can be decided by a few votes in crucial swing states.
I never said it was a matter of funding. Stop putting words in my mouth. If you're spending twice as much for inferior results, then how can you call yourself a great nation? The same goes for healthcare, you spend twice as much as anyone else yet leave tens of millions uncovered. A truly great nation would get it the other way round.
The best healthcare money can buy is only relevant to the mega-rich. A great nation looks after all its citizens, not just those with the biggest bank account.
It's interesting then how many technologies are invented by universities are other government-funded bodies, even in the US. Capitalism isn't interested in curing diseases, it's more profitable to cure the symptoms, and give people erections.
No.
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No, not really, outside of Korea anyway. But they eat dogs.
By then they'd only made 30 episodes, which is less than two years' worth in America.
German taxes aren't much lower than those in Scandanavia. I suggest you actually look up some numbers before making a fool of yourself.
I don't know about Sweden, but in the UK, a government job generally means cast-iron job security and a gold-plated pension paid for by private sector workers. And all you have to do is vote Labour every four or five years to keep the gravy train on the rails.
Cutting taxes doesn't increase the amount of money available, it just changes how it's spent. If anything, cutting taxes could damage the economy, as government will spend everything it taxes whilst the people might just save it.
That can't even provide healthcare and decent education to all of its citizens?
Sometimes, under the right circumstances, in the right places, you can make more money being unemployed than doing a low paid job, especially when you have kids.
You don't have any idea how the Thai government even works. But when has ignorance stopped people making a fool of themselves on the Internet?
I'd rather all the politicians were executed first, Bush has done far more damage to this world than the British queen ever will.
OK you should do that, tell us how you got on when you're released in ten years.
Maybe you should ask Kuwait, Palestine or Ossetia what's it's like having no defences.
I'd like a reverse law for posh restaurants in English-speaking countries.
The thing is, Americans say that about people speaking Spanish, in states that were colonised by the Spanish!
Who the fuck measures entertainment in hours? That's like judging restaurants based on how long it takes your meal to arrive. A good two hour movie is way more entertaining than a hundred hours collecting murloc foreskins.
Koreans believe in fan death, that doesn't mean the rest of the world is going to start worrying about it.
Perhaps that in a recession people cut back on luxuries, and that a computer game is less important than a mortgage repayment.
The Guardian is the best newspaper if you're part of the upper-middle-class urban liberal elite. The comment section is the worst I've ever read, Labour apologists like Toynbee copy/pasting the same article every week.
They constantly publish articles whining about tax avoidance, whilst not paying any tax themselves.
That would just make companies hire the workers in India in the first place, without going to America at all. And it would open the floodgates to tit for tat protectionism.