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.]

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.

I actually said we weren't the most ingenuous of peoples, which was probably just Freudian.

So the excuse again is the size of our nation? How is that acceptable to you? Why is it acceptable to you? I think it's a cop-out and it's just easier than being honest and admitting we're scared and we don't want to admit that policies other than the ones we've come to know and love are in fact superior. We don't want to do the hard things, so we just call them impossible. We're no longer the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world, but at least we're still making a strong showing in the greed and cowardice races, thanks to folks like you.