Re: A new career...?!

On Tue, 03 May 2011 21:24:31 -0500, Mickey wrote:

"Alex W." <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 3 May 2011 16:48:58 -0700, Miss Elaine Eos wrote:

On 2011-05-03 16:14:03 -0700, "Alex W." <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
You may not like the European way of managing their countries (and you
have every right not to like it), but as a model, it works not half bad.

Here in America, things that work in a way that results in a life that
we don't like, we call "doesn't work."

That's rot.
Just because you or I (or Mickey) don't like the way something
works does not mean it "doesn't work". All it means is that it
works in ways we do not like.

Right. Meaning it doesn't work. When something doesn't work properly,
we say it doesn't work, even though it may work badly.

OK, so how exactly does it not work properly?
How does it work badly?




And I'd actually be curious for some proper hard arguments about
why the European model "doesn't work". Shouting emotional pop
slogans about "socialism" -- which nine out of ten Americans do
not even know the correct meaning of -- doesn't impress.

Oh, yes yes yes, us 'Merkins are so narrow and unedumacated. 9 out of
10 of us may not know the proper definition of "socialism" but you're
not dealing with 9 out of 10 of us right now are you? 9 from 10 leaves
1 and I am that one. I sure as hell know what socialism is and I know
a bloody socialist when I see one and I see one sitting in the Oval
Office of the White House right his minute.

Which just goes to prove that at the very least, you are using
the word like the other nine Americans who have no idea what it
means.

Tell a real-life Hungarian, Pole or East German that Obama and
his policies are being called "socialist", and you are likely to
get one of two reactions: either they laugh hugely, or they get
quite seriously angry. Meaning that either they laugh at this
utter ignorance, or they get pissed off because they know exactly
and from personal experience what the term really means.

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