I won't deny those numbers are right but have you wondered the differences between both places? the blatant poorness in the east of Europe? Probably. But well the fact is that you're comparing pears and potatoes (not even apples). Of course if you want to keep comparing then so be it, go ahead and be my guest.
Americans are problem solvers by nature
Okay, that is the best joke I ever heard, and I'm talking seriously. I so have to quote that man there. By the way, Americans is supposed to mean US' people? Because it's wrongly used.
Therefore when an American sees someone starving in Africa he opens his wallet, calls an aid organization (often run by religious groups), and makes a donation. When a European sees someone starving in Africa he turns to his government to “do something” about the problem
Not always true but the fact is that we trust our governs because we choose to give them the power freely and we expect that they do something with our money more than to waste it around. I guess we care more for the so called 3rd world since we expect that as a whole the country does more than to produce weapons and sell them illegally, but hey! that’s how our minds work – we prefer usually peace over war.
This attitude is prevalent in so many other areas as well: self defence, health care, use of property, and so on.
Bingo! We actually think that those areas should be basic for everyone in our countries and hey we’re doing damn fine, at least we don’t have a country and citizens that live in a world of terror, dominated by fear and the need of self protection because you can’t trust your shadow. What type of quality of life do you actually have if you have to live like that, I wonder. Because I can assure you it’s lot nicer to be able to live with one’s security and freedom to be able to live your life without worrying that someone is going to attack you because you looked at them with an angry face.
But if you want to live in a place where you have to pay millions for your own healthcare because the state doesn’t cover a minimums; if you want to stop having a secure because you lost your job –of course because there wasn’t any type of security regarding unemploying and letting you know with certain time in advance-; if you want to be able to kill anyone because the way they look at you and be killed in return because of some other petty reason instead of talking or just accepting differences; stay happily ever after in US with many close minded people who believe they’re the best when in fact they only can be the best in their fantasy world –which for them seems to be the so called ‘real’ world-.
Europeans follow their typical collectivized model and expect the government to solve the problem for them.
It’s not a matter of expecting the govern to solve the problem for ourselves, is the difference that we do know that the govern works for us, citizens, they’re not some kind of god or whatever they’re like any other person working for the state and they have to do what they promised to and they have to do what’s good for our country and the citizens because that’s their job.
(a) their natural generosity
shit, this guy is extremely funny! While there may be some US people that are generous I don’t believe that as a whole many can have this so “famed” ‘natural generosity’.
Europeans are so used to looking for government solutions to everything that they have totally forgotten the concept of individual people being able to make a huge difference when they act on their own.
I know we haven’t, but go ahead and criticize us, where would you find the fun in your live if you didn’t? What I wonder is how much your so called natural generosity works for day to day, to the different associations that are fighting poverty/… each day and don’t have this big ‘boom’, I really wonder how much the average citizen gives.
And to finish this comment I have to say that I have no problem whatsoever with US people as a whole, just too many closeminded ones -sadly it seems they're the ones to talk more.
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Date: 2005-07-13 01:14 am (UTC)Americans are problem solvers by nature
Okay, that is the best joke I ever heard, and I'm talking seriously. I so have to quote that man there. By the way, Americans is supposed to mean US' people? Because it's wrongly used.
Therefore when an American sees someone starving in Africa he opens his wallet, calls an aid organization (often run by religious groups), and makes a donation. When a European sees someone starving in Africa he turns to his government to “do something” about the problem
Not always true but the fact is that we trust our governs because we choose to give them the power freely and we expect that they do something with our money more than to waste it around. I guess we care more for the so called 3rd world since we expect that as a whole the country does more than to produce weapons and sell them illegally, but hey! that’s how our minds work – we prefer usually peace over war.
This attitude is prevalent in so many other areas as well: self defence, health care, use of property, and so on.
Bingo! We actually think that those areas should be basic for everyone in our countries and hey we’re doing damn fine, at least we don’t have a country and citizens that live in a world of terror, dominated by fear and the need of self protection because you can’t trust your shadow. What type of quality of life do you actually have if you have to live like that, I wonder. Because I can assure you it’s lot nicer to be able to live with one’s security and freedom to be able to live your life without worrying that someone is going to attack you because you looked at them with an angry face.
But if you want to live in a place where you have to pay millions for your own healthcare because the state doesn’t cover a minimums; if you want to stop having a secure because you lost your job –of course because there wasn’t any type of security regarding unemploying and letting you know with certain time in advance-; if you want to be able to kill anyone because the way they look at you and be killed in return because of some other petty reason instead of talking or just accepting differences; stay happily ever after in US with many close minded people who believe they’re the best when in fact they only can be the best in their fantasy world –which for them seems to be the so called ‘real’ world-.
Europeans follow their typical collectivized model and expect the government to solve the problem for them.
It’s not a matter of expecting the govern to solve the problem for ourselves, is the difference that we do know that the govern works for us, citizens, they’re not some kind of god or whatever they’re like any other person working for the state and they have to do what they promised to and they have to do what’s good for our country and the citizens because that’s their job.
(a) their natural generosity
shit, this guy is extremely funny! While there may be some US people that are generous I don’t believe that as a whole many can have this so “famed” ‘natural generosity’.
Europeans are so used to looking for government solutions to everything that they have totally forgotten the concept of individual people being able to make a huge difference when they act on their own.
I know we haven’t, but go ahead and criticize us, where would you find the fun in your live if you didn’t? What I wonder is how much your so called natural generosity works for day to day, to the different associations that are fighting poverty/… each day and don’t have this big ‘boom’, I really wonder how much the average citizen gives.
And to finish this comment I have to say that I have no problem whatsoever with US people as a whole, just too many closeminded ones -sadly it seems they're the ones to talk more.