Another reason entitlements need to go bye-bye

[Barkingturtle]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Norway's population is 5,000,000. They had one motherfucker go insane and start shooting kids and it took them 90 minutes to bring him down. It's a totally different country with a totally different role within the world.

The US population is almost 310,000,000. It's not possible to micromanage the standard of living for everyone the way a nation like Norway can. And anyway, that has never been the US's stated goal.

Sounds like we need to break up the union then, eh? I mean, if we're too big to sustain a quality of life befitting the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world then maybe we need to downsize. Most of New England is redundant, as is the Midwest and the South.

The US's goal has always been to provide equality of opportunity, not equality of results. Whether or not they've been successful, it's a different mindset entirely.

Gosh, I guess their results are just better than our opportunities then. That's really depressing if you spend more than a fucking second thinking about it.

[Daldolma]

Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sounds like we need to break up the union then, eh? I mean, if we're too big to sustain a quality of life befitting the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world then maybe we need to downsize. Most of New England is redundant, as is the Midwest and the South.



Gosh, I guess their results are just better than our opportunities then. That's really depressing if you spend more than a fucking second thinking about it.

Break up the union for what purpose? To win a paper battle over standard of living? Sure. Turn Connecticut into a country and you'll win the standard of living battle. I have a feeling Compton, CA isn't going to be too successful, though.

You're trying to be snarky over the fact that a mini-nation of 5,000,000 has a better average quality of life than the dominant world power, with a population of over 300,000,000. I don't understand why that's a revelation.

[Barkingturtle]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Break up the union for what purpose? To win a paper battle over standard of living? Sure. Turn Connecticut into a country and you'll win the standard of living battle. I have a feeling Compton, CA isn't going to be too successful, though.

You're trying to be snarky over the fact that a mini-nation of 5,000,000 has a better average quality of life than the dominant world power, with a population of over 300,000,000. I don't understand why that's a revelation.

First off, Compton isn't really a state. It's a state of mind.

Second, what's with the rampant defeatism? So because we have a bigger job to do than Norway, it's just impossible? But I thought we were vastly more powerful and wealthy than any other nation on the globe? I thought we were the most ingenuous people on the planet?

We're not. You know it, that's why you defend this status quo as tolerable if not palatable.

[Daldolma]

Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

First off, Compton isn't really a state. It's a state of mind.

Second, what's with the rampant defeatism? So because we have a bigger job to do than Norway, it's just impossible? But I thought we were vastly more powerful and wealthy than any other nation on the globe? I thought we were the most ingenuous people on the planet?

We're not. You know it, that's why you defend this status quo as tolerable if not palatable.

You're setting up a ridiculous straw man. Nobody in this thread has labeled Americans as the most ingenious people on the planet -- not by a long shot. Personally, I said the US is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. Making any judgment about the quality of the citizenry is external to that fact.

But Norway's success as a nation of 5,000,000 is only slightly more relevant than the successes of Israeli kibbutzim when discussing communism. Scale means everything.

[Tumdumm]

Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sounds like we need to break up the union then, eh? I mean, if we're too big to sustain a quality of life befitting the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world then maybe we need to downsize. Most of New England is redundant, as is the Midwest and the South.

or at least make it a daily game show pitting states or regions against each other and televise it

Originally Posted by Pico [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how many neckbeards are you stroking right now

hhaahahaha