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melody

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1. Wait, wait, wait -- now we're a model? I thought we were all capitalist pigs two weeks ago

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 10:09 AM

Nov 2012

I wish Der Spiegel would make up its mind.

Personally, I think they just want to hate on the US. As a liberal Democrat, I'm far, far beyond tired of my country and countrypeople being insulted from abroad. We're damned if we do and damned if we don't.

We don't have to model for ANYONE. Other countries need to find their own way. We went without health care and any but the most minimal societal support systems in the guise of "saving nations" who could afford to give their citizens everything we never could. Americans have to do what's right for OUR people, not for multinational companies.

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Divided States of America: Notes on the Decline of a Great Nation [View all] marmar Nov 2012 OP

Wait, wait, wait -- now we're a model? I thought we were all capitalist pigs two weeks ago melody Nov 2012 #1

If the Shoe Fits... AndyTiedye Nov 2012 #2

Whether or not the shoe fits is in the eye of the beholder -- which was my point melody Nov 2012 #5

The thing is... cbrer Nov 2012 #4

We don't know the "right' way to be" - neither does Europe melody Nov 2012 #6

We don't need to know the "right" way cbrer Nov 2012 #7

Marking for later. nt awoke_in_2003 Nov 2012 #3