Reply #85: You do know the Soviet Union was dissolved more than 20 years ago?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

And that a number of European countries, particularly Scandinavia, have a much higher standard of living, fewer poor people, better medical care, lower unemployment, longer life expectancies and higher-quality (free) education than the U.S.? That the American middle class is rapidly disappearing? And that the European countries, while they have many private businesses, are more or less socialist? And that you can easily change jobs in those countries - especially since, unlike the U.S., there are jobs there?