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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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"IO" wrote:
USA medium family is strangled by debts. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ One reason why nearly 30-million Americans are using antidepressants?! |
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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... -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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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. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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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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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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(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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![]() "Franck" wrote in message ... 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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