What policies are you referencing to make this conclusion?

If we take the most notable, like universal healthcare, that's not out of the norm for European social democracies.

supports taco tuesday, checkmate libs, they dont even have tortillas in europe.

When we compare disposable, after-tax income we find that Americans outpace many of the advanced European democracies. Pew did not include the poorer EU members (e.g. Romania) in the model, or the United States would have been in an even more favorable light.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/05/through-an-american-lens-western-europes-middle-classes-appear-smaller/#:~:text=With%20the%20exception%20of%20Luxembourg,behind%20the%20American%20middle%20class.

This isn't to say that there aren't needed improvements to our current model, because there are with respect to infrastructure, health-care (the current insurance oligopoly model is unsustainable), and byzantine regulatory rules that dramatically reduce economic freedom and competition (one of the main reasons the United States has been falling down economic freedom indexes in recent years). But it's a classic case of "grass is greener" to hold Europe up as some Eden with the United States as Paradise Lost.

I'm assuming you mean Europe specifically when you say "the rest of the world", because the actual rest of the world is a pretty terrible place to live by comparison.



Free trade is good, but free trade needs to be free, as in mutual. With China it clearly isn't, and there are bones to pick with Japan, Korea, and the European union. I disagreed strongly with Trump's decision to leave the TPP, though, as that is exactly the sort of solution that we should be striving towards.



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This post was edited by bogie160 on Nov 24 2020 12:47pm

to be quite honest the lack of free trade we get from them is more than offset by the lower worker safety standards and pay standards they maintain to help our corporations' bottom lines.

i dont care how many new Ford Broncos they buy as long as hundreds of thousands of workers die every year in factory accidents or jumping off the roof to end it.

Interesting ideals... Curious they line up with...

I think this is Jere in real life:

i design robots to literally replace those poor souls.

my points isnt that worker exploitation is good, its that free trade exploitation is offset by worker exploitation.

I wish you were one of my students.

Got 8 year olds smarter than you

This post was edited by Jere on Nov 24 2020 01:18pm

We need higher qualifications for our teachers.

We need people who don't make assumptions on qualifications... You aren't a thinker, just a weak follower.

This post was edited by Jere on Nov 24 2020 01:22pm