Please DU this stupid poll: which is better the US free markets system or the EU

[Nimrod2005]

Welfare state?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17666147/site/newsweek/#anc_nwk_070326_OV_EUvsUS_

[BayCityProgressive]

1. The fact it is even that close

is encouraging. Most people think Europe are them thur socialists.

[Nimrod2005]

3. Correction....Most Redstaters don't even know what Europe is!!!

:rofl:

[HereSince1628]

5. Sure they do. It's below Greenland!

[jeff30997]

7. And you can take the car to go to Paris.

:)

[Clark2008]

10. And most DUers assume everyone in a red state is an idiot.

Um - use the term red "voters," please. It much better describes the audience you were targeting for laughs.

There are between 42 and 47 percent of us in red states who knew Bush was an idiot well before 1999. We're also not ignorant or stupid.

And - you CAN take a car to go to London or Paris. London, Kentucky and Paris, TN are within a day's drive of my house.

So there. :P

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. I'm surprised at the results!

Which is better: Europe's welfare state or America's free-market system? * 4661 responses

Europe's Welfare State
38%

America's Free-Market System
50%

Don't Know

12%


The Beloved Almighty Sacred Holy Free Market is only pulling 50% :wow:

[Nimrod2005]

4. Nice reframe, good point....nt

[sandnsea]

6. Oh man

With all the subsidized corporations, we don't have a free market system. And the EU most certainly doesn't have a welfare state. What a complete bunch of propaganda bullshit.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. "Europe's Welfare State"? That's a pretty monolithic name to use

for 27 countries with differing welfare systems.

[and-justice-for-all]

9. Done ... Kick

[gravity]

11. Well both have their strengths and benefits

I think that the US free market system should just have better safety nets, and it will be the best.

[Donnachaidh]

12. it said underneath *NOT a scientific study*

ya think? :silly:

Someone at MSNBC has been nipping at the koolaid.

[Vidar]

13. done

[MN ChimpH8R]

14. Spleesh - what a stupid (and slanted) question that is

But the Europeans win hands down, IMO. There I'd have health care.

[Extend a Hand]

15. like the US actually has 'free markets'....

with all the subsidies to big oil, agri-business, big pharma.

a better question might be

Is the US welfare for corporations
better than welfare for citizens in the EU?

[Nimrod2005]

16. Lol.........So true.

[Nimrod2005]

17. Poll still up if you like to vote.....nt