Whine & Cheese

Because the secret american motto is "work hard enough and you can be the 1%". The american dream is built on selling the masses that if they aren't yet rich, they will be if they work hard and long enough. Why would the rest of us want to harm what we aspire to be? See that businessman over there making 6 or 7 figures a year? Work hard enough and you can be just like him. See those rock stars on MTV cribs? Work hard enough and you can have that too.

quote:Norway dropped from mostly free to moderately free in the 2012 Index, primarily because of expansive public spending. The government has focused on containing expensive welfare programs, but government spending as a percentage of GDP rose sharply.Admittedly, that's where the present regime is taking/has taken the US of A.You can cite exceptions relative to some aspects of my message. By and large, the US of A is and has been the most productive, free, prosperous and benevolent.

WHO announced the data on liters of Alcohol consumed per capita in 188 countries, Slovenia came in 9th place at 15.2 Liters of pure alcohol consumed per person.The fucking health nut fuckers are holding us back we could easily claim first place if we kick them out.

If we were to take that 1980 $4.00 and extrapolate it through an inflation adjustment calculator, it would be roughly equal to the $17.00 an hour that I now make.