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so taxpayers should only pay for what u want them to pay for. interesting! too bad we can't have an election every 4 years or so, so your views can be heard by someone in the government.

You can easily bill reactors with bond issues once the industry is revived. I know there has to be a public and private partnership for some things. Most endeavors need some regulation, but the problem today is the Bama is trying to take over everything.

calls
taxes are hugh but then we do know you get what u pay for and THEY LIVE LONGER!
it's that the most important thing?

their kids are smarter also.

Hey Callsem, congrats on all that freedom in choosing between soda brands.
Shame about the voting. Too bad, so sad...

Their taxes are huge and their freedoms are limited. They are permanently attached to nanny states that are not as kind and gentle as people here, who haven't traveled or lived there believe. They have been free riders, piggy backing on the check books of the American taxpayer and even earlier the American immigrant workers, who like Mexicans today, used to send money back to the "old countries" so their relatives could survive.

ps
nothing more socialist than nuclear power. do u know how much in government subsidies nuclear gets?

calls
some of that might be true but europeans live longer (and pay less for their healthcare.)

maybe it's just something in the water, I don't know, I feel everytime I go there it adds 2 years to my life

It's my understanding that many European countries are moving away from "cap and trade" regs even as our current misadministration moves towards it. My understanding is that they are doing this because it is ruining Europe's competitiveness against Chinese and Indian industry. I don't think the governments care much about the tremendous cost of such for individuals. There is also the side issue that countries like France get 70% of it’s' energy from nuclear, but in America we are lied to about nuclear safety issues, so we stopped building this important energy source.

Which Europe are we listening to? The one that loves us or the one that hates us? Lol. As someone who has spent some time in Europe almost every year for the past 35 years, the Europe that people like the Kerrys describe is only a small unrepresentative liberal/socialist elite. They always hated us while taking full advantage of everything we provided for them. Most people in America, including much of this audience don't remember the Europe of the 20s to the early 80s when it was both a political and actual battlegrounds. They don't know about the Soviet funded Communist and socialist parties that were very strong and almost took over Greece, Italy, France, etc. This was not a popular uprising - it was a planned coup. In response to such democratic socialism emerged to coop the middle ground. When almost everyone in America also forgets is that not only did Europe, including England start with a clean slate after WWII, all receiving Billions in US Taxpayer money for decades, they also lived under the safety of American military power. This reduced demand on their budgets was large enough that politicians had a few (lol) extra bucks for social handouts like daycare; but by-in-large the system is a failure and the economies and societies are more moribund than the US. Their social systems are collapsing as they have to provide social services to increasing numbers of illegal Islamic aliens. Many countries in Europe also disapprove of Obama to date on his profligate printing of money that is wrecking the international monetary system and driving up the price of oil, his failure to stand up to Russia and Iran and his public disengagement from the Judeo-Christian traditions of that Continent which empowers individuals and groups dedicated to destroying Europe as we know it.

Please address the differences in political systems.

The US two-party-system provides very little choice to voters.

(On the positive side, this results in a bold and independent leadership, mostly unconstrained by popular opinion, much like in China.)

Within Europe, only the UK has as an undemocratic a system, and even that is not quite as bad, due to the much smaller size of the constituencies, which allows for third party representatives at the national level.

Note that no less than eight political parties are represented in the Finnish parliament. Stable boring Finland. So, please, no wise-ess comments about Italy.