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join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | Geography? Yea, right! Geography doesn't explain why Canada is ahead of us. Or the Scotish Highlands. Or why even the most rural farmer in Korea can get broadband if they want to.
Good thing the free-market maniac, no-such-thing-as-market-failure, Heritage Foundation types weren't around in the 1950's: we'd have no Interstate Highway system. I know alot of them would argue that we should have a network of privately owned, privately built toll roads instead. Anything goverment does turns out bad, you know. |
| Well. That was a bright comment. Did it ever occur to you, Einstein, that S Korea is about the size of one of our smaller states and has a entirely different kind of government, let alone cultural mindset? Seems to me, you are all expecting, in your unthinking american arrogance, that everyone in the world thinks like you do.
That's what the people of the world dont like about us: our arrogance. We have been fat and happy for so long we take it for granted (hell, even our poor on welfare have shelter, food, water, clothing, electricity, protection of the law...) and think everyone should be just like us. Well, they're not, pilgrim and they never will be. Better get used to it. They may like western goodies, but many of the worlds cultures have been around for thousands of years. I doubt they will want to be like us any time soon. |
