Sunday, October 19, 2008

oh, I know

I'm still trying to figure out Eddie Izzards remarks about the anti-British stuff from America.

Problem is, I don't know what they hear from us.

People do use European examples of why socialized medicine is a bad idea. Do they take that as anti-British? They might.

I've heard a couple of people on Fox say they'd never tolerate a Royality, running things and not working and stuff. People here don't understand how it works and what they do. They just see pictures of them at events and things, and maybe hear how expensive they are.

That is a mistake to criticize those things without knowing anything about them.

Royality is part of others' cultures, not ours. Nobody asked us to have a royal family so it's not even an issue.

People are afraid of more taxes (I know, here we go again) so criticize those systems in other countries and say they don't work. Do they? I don't know.

Europe also pracitices capitalism.

We added welfare and other social services cause there was need. Everybody wants the homeless out of sight and mind. And out of their pockets.

Cavuto recently slammed Sweden for it's social systems. He heard from a couple of American swedes about it.

Teach culture. Or more importantly, learn it.

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