BlackAsCoal
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The countries of western europe are generally nice places to live, but remember that:
1) they do not have a gigantic military empire to support
2) their taxes on capital improvements and so forth are lower than ours, so their companies can remain competitive
3) their towns and cities were built before socialism (unlike most of the US), so they are very dense and therefore suitable for walking and mass transit. It's okay if they earn less money because the average family of four doesn't have to have four cars!
4) they don't have the same sort of lawsuit mania we have
5) their size is on par with american states. What works for seven million people won't necessarily work for 300 million! This is not a minor point, and when I bring this up, socialists are either ambivalent or hostile to the idea and wish for more knee-jerk centralization.
Good arguments Von BigMeat (luv your moniker)
However, having 300 million people, thus a greater strain on dwindling resources, males socialist concepts even more critical to the nation.
Of course there will have to be the American model that fits our unique idiosyncracies .. but I believe without a doubt that intelligence can make it work.