Gast1 wrote:
Let's just face it, the American government sucks as well as Americanisation for the reasons Sir Wanksalot mentioned, and for things like torturing people (yes, that's quite a big issue here now, as laws prohibit torture to take place here, the CIA and other orginizations have prisoners sent to other countries like Egypt and Romania, to be tortured there). But most of our countries suck for blindly lining up behind them. And if they refuse to do that, they suck for a different reason, like mentioned, France raping the third world with their import taxes. America is doing the same though. I still consider the American government to be biggest bug of them all, but the rest of the world comes not at a really far distance for accepting their leadership, or submitting to their blackmail.
Misha, you know my feelings about the gov. both right and left wing: the are scum.
Let me just say this once, we are being fleeced shamelessly, and their isn't a damn thing we to do about it.
I have actually seriously tried talking my wife into relocating to Europe (I would LOVE to live in Ireland, the land of my ancestors)
but she can't leave her family behind.
A little rundown on how most of us live here:
almost everybody I know either works two jobs while their spouse holds down a day job, to boot or travels far enough away that they have to live in a cheap motel during the workweek, seeing their families only on weekends, just to make ends meet. I am very lucky in that my wife and I make sufficient money to barely get by, our mortgage alone is $2,700 a month... that does not include car payments, a thousand forms of mandatory insurance, groceries, electricity, water, gas, clothes, etc... while trying to save for the inevetable future when we will be unable to support ourselves. Not to mention the tax, tax, TAX... roughly 35% of my paycheck gors to the government.
We are overworked, overstressed and completely disposable to the corporations that run EVERYTHING here.
All the slagging that takes place here concerning the state of things in my country is adding INSULT to INJURY; try to put yourself in our shoes.