You think its bad now, just you wait until your parents pass on, and in addition you have created your own personal wealth.

Obama, and his camp of Neo luddite socialists have really managed to put forward the agenda of social equity at the cost of personal and private wealth. You tell me why I should bust my hump, create my own personal wealth, so these fucks can do the bare minimum, yet enjoy the rewards that we all worked so hard for.

Great article in the Street, about just exactly what its going to cost your parents estate, and your own personal wealth.

The Were not Europe party

Fox News for the LOSE!

Go smell your own farts Hippie!

"Socialism; it's great until you run out of other peoples money"

I like this one.
And yeah, you don't want to become Europe. Just to put things back in perspective in case you don't understand why, I'll take one of my first pay as an example.
My boss paid 3800€ for me to work there.
I received in my bank account 1930€.
The difference is for different socialist things.

Still, I had to pay 1700€ per year as income taxes.
And VAT on everything, 19.6% for almost everything, 5.5% on food, more than 300% on gas.

What do I get from this :
- lot of schools are free. But as almost none do any selection, french high schools are not really good
- universal health insurance. If you need glasses or dentals, you still need to get some plans from a private insurance company
- shitty army
- shitty police force which prefer to fuck honest citizen than pacify some area
- lot of museum and art thingy
- lot of money for elected officials
- did I speak about how there's only one city where everything is centralized ?
- and we have public transportation. When they're not on strike. And only in some cities
- the hope I'll have a pension when I hit some undefined age if there's enough people to pay it at the time I hit this age. Yeah, no one under 30 count on it atm.

Arkh, I officially dub thee 'Honorary American". Look at it this way, you get amazing jobs programs from EADS as they try an tax and subsidize the US and the World out of the Aerospace and Defense sector.

Unfortunately, you have to share the jobs programs with the other EADS countries, and Germany and Spain are not too into sharing.

I love almost this entire thread. Except for the second post by the fart-inhaling hippy!

ROFLMAO