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Old October 19th 03, 02:51 PM
IO
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USA medium family is strangled by debts. Augmented fixed costs (university
for the childrens, the house, credit card....) are strangling american
families. Individual financial failures are augmented of the 400% in the
last 25 years... Read and thik before talking


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Old October 19th 03, 03:42 PM
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"IO" wrote:

USA medium family is strangled by debts.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

One reason why nearly 30-million Americans are using antidepressants?!








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Old October 19th 03, 07:13 PM
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In article , "IO"
wrote:

USA medium family is strangled by debts. Augmented fixed costs (university
for the childrens, the house, credit card....) are strangling american
families.


Note that of the three things you mention, two of them are European
problems, too. Unless Europeans don't live in houses or use credit
cards.

And if you're looking for a university education, it's not that
expensive here (unless you go somewhere like Harvard or Yale). Which is
part of the reason we get so many Europeans here in our schools...

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Old October 21st 03, 01:24 AM
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Disagree on this issue - my daily commute to work is eight miles each
way, in a car that returns sixty miles to the gallon. I buy about
sixty dollars of fuel a month. (Yes, I'm fortunate and others have
longer journeys and/or thirstier vehicles). High fuel prices are an
irritant but (for example) the Common Agricultural Policy puts far
more of a hole in my bank balance than high fuel prices.

If Europe was as dispersed and involved the same routine travel
distances as much of the US seemed to... but it doesn't.


So you choose not to travel. This could be for personal reasons, or it could
be fuel prices. If its the former, than high fuel prices don't impact your
quality of life, but if its the latter, than they do.

I'm not sure if its the size of our country or weather American just like to
travel our nation by car, but many (high percentage) would feel paying
$4.00US/gallon of gas was a severe negative impact on their quality of life.


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everyone on Bear Creek"
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Old October 19th 03, 04:51 PM
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EU standard of life is at less equal of the USA one.



Well,for example if you are German with "Germany allergy" sendroms your
official German insurance carrier have to rent a beachfront property in sunny
Florida for you and pay for your expenses to cure your allergy.

But I dont think that my US insurance carrier is going to rent a beachfront
property for me in sunny Hawai or anywhere else to cure my "Northeast allergy"
in my life time.
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Old October 21st 03, 08:31 AM
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Chad Irby wrote in message om...
"Franck" wrote:

Jealousy of what ?? of American way of life !!! let me laugh


Better pay, more freedom, less government...

Manwhile, in the EU, less of the first two and more of the third.



uhm... the EU does have far too much government... but not nearly as
much as the US...

In the EU (unlike the US) you don't have to make a written application
in three copies plus pay and administrative fee before getting
permission to go to your toilet, for instance.
At least that example isn't *that* far from the truth when it comes to
the situaiton in the US.
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Old October 21st 03, 06:10 PM
Mike Marron
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(Marcus Andersson) wrote:

uhm... the EU does have far too much government... but not nearly as
much as the US...


Tell that to the European, UK, Canadian and Australian friends of mine
who immigrated to the U.S. so as to enjoy our MUCH greater freedoms
and opportunities.

In the EU (unlike the US) you don't have to make a written application
in three copies plus pay and administrative fee before getting
permission to go to your toilet, for instance.


If it's such a piece o' cake to go to the toilet over there, then why
do so many Europeans smell like they haven't bathed or brushed
their teeth in months?

At least that example isn't *that* far from the truth when it comes to
the situaiton in the US.


Apparently the situation in Europe is a desperate lack of fresh
water that requires all the wussified little folk of perfume-creators
to walk around with body odors and make love to women with
hairy legs and armpits. Ohh babee!

yeah... this is probably the clearest example for Europeans of the
low standard of living for Americans... you simply cannot live
without a car...


Huh? You're the first person I've ever heard say that having an
automobile or two (or three or four...) equates to a "low standard
of living." Thanks for informing me of this revelation, but I still
won't be trading in my dependable Chevy for five year's worth
of unlimited rides on the state-subsidized public transit system
anytime soon.

You are forced to sit in your home without being able to go anywhere.
Unless you want to make yourself the trouble of bringing your car with
you, that is.


1) If you don't understand why Americans opted for "motorcars" and
cheap oil instead of European-style public transportation, then you're
either incredibly naive and ignorant or just plain stupid. Simply
because motorcars are an unnecessary pain to YOU (as parking is
difficult even with your dinky and slow little econoboxes that you
drive over there not to mention your narrow, one-way streets that
appear unpredictably out of nowhere) doesn't mean that we have the
same problem here in the states. And as it has already been mentioned,
a paltry gallon of "petrol" doesn't cost us $5.56 here in the U.S.
either. ****...no wonder you dislike "motorcars" so much!

2) We don't necessarily need an automobile, er' "motorcar" to go
anywhere. I've used other modes of transportation to get from
point 'A' to point 'B' including taking buses and trains that you
Europeans are so fond of using. Granted, there is somewhat
of a stigma attached to utilizing public transportation (esp. buses)
here in the U.S., but the fact remains that we don't necessarily
need a "motorcar" to go places.

3) Almost every day I use my electric bicycle (designed by Lee
Iacocca) to zip around town while running errands. The level of
workmanship is typically American -- very good quality components
and hugely stylish. But guess what Marcus, due to your oppressive and
draconian laws, my innovative and practical "ebike" is illegal in
Europe and Canada simply because it has a 500 watt motor!

4) Amazingly, in the UK, Europe and Canada any bicycle with more
than a 250-watt motor is outlawed because A) your government doesn't
want y'all to have too much fun and B) any bicycle powered by more
than 250-watts becomes a viable mode of transportation and therefore
must be registered and....you guessed it: TAXED.

5) The way I figure it, Marcus, life is too short to let the *******s
making all the laws get what they want all the time. Be a rebel,
push the envelope, make the traffic cop in the Vauxhall think his
"motorcar" has slowed down as you pass him on your stealthy
"cheater bike" without even pedalling. Now THAT is the American
Way!


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Old October 19th 03, 06:34 PM
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"Franck" wrote in message
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Jealousy of what ?? of American way of life !!! let me laugh

Yet your reply e-mail is from an American Company. Your news reader is by an
American Company. Seems pretty dammed American to me. Are you sure your not
American?


 




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