> > What nation is closest to your ideal and why?
> >
I have to reinterpret this as "which country is my ideal to live in",
because thats what countries are primarily for. Without having done any
research, and knowing very little about most countires, my answer is:
1. the U S of A
this is because, honestly, its great to live here. not alot of taxes, good
economy and freedom. even the option to be free to a large degree of the
forces in america which i see to be so opressive. I can live on the streets
here if i want and still be a rather happy person (as opposed to the
homeless in various european countries i've seen who appear to be in
horrible suffering, does anyone know why Italy for example has such a
problem?), many of the homeless here are a little fat. and as Rog points
out, no american forces thrid world workers to work for far to less money.
those countires could develop seperate from american buisnesses if they
wanted (and any individual can make the same choice) except they want to be
a part of this horribly unfair system (which some say is a source of
fairness, not i. I dont think its good to kick someone in the face even if
they are so desperate that they think they could profit from it. I'll just
give them the dollar and not kick them.)
America has its problems, which i'll attack untill the day i die, but it has
also overcome the problems of the past and is now working on newer problems
(lets not say 14th century doctors were better doctors because they didnt
have to be concerned with a cure for cancer, we only get to deal with cancer
because we've conquered so many other diseases). I'll say americas problem
is that it is a cancer, but it only gets to be a cancer because no one dies
of the plaugue any more. i'll take a nation with cancer over the plague any
day.
As for a second choice well...
Canada seems like a nice place to live, as does panama. i dont have any
sort of market/socialist scale on which to place countires, id have to go
there for a while and decide (like id have to see a road before i decide its
the best, not just because its the fastest or most well marked). And im
sure i draw fire when i say this, but cuba wouldnt be so bad if it werent so
poor (largely i believe to american sanctions).
Elliot
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