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Automaker Bailout Fails: This Is Not Good

dg314

I fully agree with you. I am from Austria/Vienna where we consider ourselfs to be very social.

But don't mistake us for being stupid. We also know about this problem, and the system has adapted to it in a good way. Read the article about compromises above.

e.g. We have lower social insurance paying from GDP than the states, even though everybody is insured !!!! with higher live expectancy !!!
We heard, somebody once said to Schwarzennegger that he does not want to pay medical for some bum. Arnie said that the US constitution guarantees that everybody will receive medical treatment in the US.

We all work hard here, cause being social does not mean that somebody that is getting social wellfare lives good, it is the bottom baseline, nobody wants it. We also have 50% max Tax, so that the system stays in balance. I am sure that people that work hard don't want to pay tax, but I am also sure that normal people also have to work hard.

The problem with your system is, that at some people greed starts to grow over common knowledge.

Find a good way between both systems, it is the hard way, and not the way I encountered people in the US industry. US is NOT the high productive, high quality country you are always being told, which does not mean that it is bad.