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(American Thinker) Sad The model of the European-style welfare state simply does not work but Obama thinks he's the man who can make it work this time   (americanthinker.com) divider line 290
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2012-01-25 10:49:44 AM
Convenient focused on southern Europe and not so much on northern Europe. Got it.
 
2012-01-25 10:55:44 AM
It's working in Germany.
 
2012-01-25 11:07:13 AM
It's working better than the shiat we got now.

The reason why they got in trouble was that other countries tried to emulate US banking practices
 
2012-01-25 11:08:51 AM
It's working in Sweden.
 
2012-01-25 11:13:17 AM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.
Already here, thanks Gar. But we're happy to have you stay where you are.

Compare the above whaaargarble with this greenlit article from yesterday: "Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted. It has thrived on principles America seems to have lost".

What a difference a day makes.
 
2012-01-25 11:15:55 AM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Elect Gingrich and I just might.
 
2012-01-25 11:18:31 AM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Nah, we'll just change this country to mirror the successful things they do.

You can fight it, but the old, crotchety, racist people are dying off, and the new generation has passports, understands how the internet works, and isn't afraid of communists under the bed, so you're gonna lose that fight.
 
2012-01-25 11:18:55 AM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.


I love debating styles from an elementary school playground.
 
2012-01-25 11:21:45 AM
Sybarite: I love debating styles from an elementary school playground.

Your mom moved to Europe!
 
2012-01-25 11:21:49 AM
Sybarite: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.


I love debating styles from an elementary school playground.


That's because you're a stinky doo-doo head who eats his own poo.
 
2012-01-25 11:24:18 AM
Sybarite: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.


I love debating styles from an elementary school playground.


I was thinking more Archie Bunker-esque "Love it or leave it" mentality.
 
2012-01-25 11:28:32 AM
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Takers gonna Take
 
jbc [TotalFark]
2012-01-25 11:29:11 AM
GaryGWB hates Europe because the multiple political parties there gives them way too many senators.
 
2012-01-25 11:38:56 AM
www.americanthinker.com
*fert-plop*
How 'bout THAT movement, yur-up?
 
vpb [TotalFark]
2012-01-25 11:53:03 AM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If small government and low taxes are so great you should move to Somalia.
 
2012-01-25 12:04:07 PM
If Europe is so great, why haven't I seen it on a bubble gum card? Hmmmm?
 
2012-01-25 12:08:47 PM
vpb: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If small government and low taxes are so great you should move to Somalia.
 
2012-01-25 12:15:55 PM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Glad to hear you've finally come around to liking Obama, seeing as you have a "only living where you like the government" policy.
 
2012-01-25 12:24:11 PM
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and France are obviously just a bunch of failed states. They're so pathetic. Why would we emulate them?

/hurr-durr and a-herp-dee-derp.
 
2012-01-25 12:52:58 PM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If you don't like where the United States is going... I am sure that you would enjoy the joyful bootstrappiness of Singapore or Somalia.
 
2012-01-25 12:57:52 PM
mahuika: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Glad to hear you've finally come around to liking Obama, seeing as you have a "only living where you like the government" policy.


Well, he compromised slightly by remaining under 'merikun soil during democrat years:
i149.photobucket.com
Damn Fartbongo!

Don't get spittle on the walls, Gary. I just washed them.
 
2012-01-25 01:18:34 PM
Rugged Independents are spoiled. And they have no idea how much they are spoiled.
 
2012-01-25 01:19:09 PM
oldfarthenry: mahuika: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Glad to hear you've finally come around to liking Obama, seeing as you have a "only living where you like the government" policy.

Well, he compromised slightly by remaining under 'merikun soil during democrat years:
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Damn Fartbongo!

Don't get spittle on the walls, Gary. I just washed them.


"Hey! The government can't control the sky. What if you lived in a balloon?"

img.photobucket.com
 
2012-01-25 01:19:22 PM
Code_Archeologist: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If you don't like where the United States is going... I am sure that you would enjoy the joyful bootstrappiness of Singapore or Somalia.


Or Iran. The right-wingers would all love Iran. A theocracy led by a combative dude who thinks everyone is out to get him.
 
2012-01-25 01:21:46 PM
WorldCitizen: Convenient focused on southern Europe and not so much on northern Europe. Got it.

CitizenTed: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and France are obviously just a bunch of failed states. They're so pathetic. Why would we emulate them?

/hurr-durr and a-herp-dee-derp.


Look, do you expect conservatives to know every individual country? "European style welfare" is just so much easier. And it sounds right from the gut.

Furthermore, why is the author besmirching our allies?
 
2012-01-25 01:23:36 PM
GaryPDX: Code_Archeologist: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If you don't like where the United States is going... I am sure that you would enjoy the joyful bootstrappiness of Singapore or Somalia.

Sooo..that the only choice? Big giant socialist government or Somalia? no in between?

/lame comparison


You're the one who likes absolutes.
 
2012-01-25 01:27:20 PM
No, but the model of the incredible amounts of derp as seen in the American Stinker comes off as desperate, illogical and r-complex at best.
 
2012-01-25 01:28:50 PM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Oh, man, I'd love to. Anyone know how I can get a British work permit?
 
2012-01-25 01:29:15 PM
GAT_00: GaryPDX: Code_Archeologist: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If you don't like where the United States is going... I am sure that you would enjoy the joyful bootstrappiness of Singapore or Somalia.

Sooo..that the only choice? Big giant socialist government or Somalia? no in between?

/lame comparison

You're the one who likes absolutes.


He might like Mexico. Weak Federal Government, strong private enterprise.
 
2012-01-25 01:30:30 PM
Obama: Let's build an America together, an America built to last

GOP: BOOOOOO!
 
2012-01-25 01:30:55 PM
Darth_Lukecash: It's working better than the shiat we got now.

That doesn't matter. It's not perfect, so until it is, then we should stick with the much worse system we have.
 
2012-01-25 01:31:44 PM
I wish Obama was really the socialist the right accuses him of being. We might be able to progress beyond the greed worshiped by the right.
 
2012-01-25 01:32:07 PM
oldfarthenry: mahuika: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Glad to hear you've finally come around to liking Obama, seeing as you have a "only living where you like the government" policy.

Well, he compromised slightly by remaining under 'merikun soil during democrat years:
i149.photobucket.com
Damn Fartbongo!

Don't get spittle on the walls, Gary. I just washed them.


I gotta chuckle at that pic. A family of five and look at all the "Canned Food" and "Canned" water they have to live on for several weeks/months underground in their "Kiddie Kokoon". Something tells me these cheapasses are gonna be the first mutants to wander the post-nuclear landscape, searching for man flesh to devour.
 
2012-01-25 01:32:11 PM
We're a young enough country that we should be able to pick and choose the stuff that works from other systems to make ours better.

Still can't understand being a conservative in a country that isn't old enough (longevity speaking) to have grown pubes..
 
2012-01-25 01:32:30 PM
GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

12/10


I can't believe that simplistic troll worked so well.
 
2012-01-25 01:33:41 PM
what_now: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

Nah, we'll just change this country to mirror the successful things they do.

You can fight it, but the old, crotchety, racist people are dying off, and the new generation has passports, understands how the internet works, and isn't afraid of communists under the bed, so you're gonna lose that fight.


Yeah, up until they turn 40, shave off their ironic mustaches and suddenly forget all the suport that made them who they are and start to biatch to congress "fark you, I got mine"

/I picture a future about 20 years down the line where those freewheeling, pseudoliberal hipster food truck operators start pushing city council to ban those pesky new, trendy food carts because they're driving away business.
 
2012-01-25 01:34:24 PM
Can't be bothered reading the crap of American Stinker.
 
2012-01-25 01:34:40 PM
Diogenes: I was thinking more Archie Bunker-esque "Love it or leave it" mentality.

That's what came to mind for me too. The "America, love it or leave it" rebuttal (if you could call it that) only works one way. You don't see Gary moving out of the US even though he seems to have so many gripes with the country.
 
2012-01-25 01:35:16 PM
CitizenTed: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and France are obviously just a bunch of failed states. They're so pathetic. Why would we emulate them?

/hurr-durr and a-herp-dee-derp.


FTFY. We've gone full teabagger here.
 
2012-01-25 01:36:10 PM
Mentat: It's working in Germany.

QFT
 
2012-01-25 01:36:37 PM
Nadie_AZ: He might like Mexico. Weak Federal Government, strong private enterprise.

No, he very much enjoys what he takes from the system he rails against. The fact is he's probably more comfortable than many of us, and just lives to complain. There will be no exodus.
 
2012-01-25 01:36:52 PM
The links seem even more unhinged from reality than usual today.
 
2012-01-25 01:37:21 PM
GaryPDX: Code_Archeologist: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If you don't like where the United States is going... I am sure that you would enjoy the joyful bootstrappiness of Singapore or Somalia.

Sooo..that the only choice? Big giant socialist government or Somalia? no in between?

/lame comparison


Sorry Gary, you started with the lame arguments. They are just making fun with a lame argument of their own as a comeback.
 
2012-01-25 01:38:04 PM
Who said Obama is trying to turn us into a European-style welfare state?

Let me rephrase that. Who credible said Obama is trying to turn us into a European-style welfare state?
 
2012-01-25 01:38:09 PM
GaryPDX: Code_Archeologist: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If you don't like where the United States is going... I am sure that you would enjoy the joyful bootstrappiness of Singapore or Somalia.

Sooo..that the only choice? Big giant socialist government or Somalia? no in between?

/lame comparison


False Dilemma Fallacy - not just for the rigt wing any more!
 
2012-01-25 01:38:13 PM
It's working in Canada.
 
2012-01-25 01:38:33 PM
Alphax: The links seem even more unhinged from reality than usual today.

Desperation. It's the new spice to beef up an old stale recipe.
 
2012-01-25 01:38:37 PM
GaryPDX: Code_Archeologist: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If you don't like where the United States is going... I am sure that you would enjoy the joyful bootstrappiness of Singapore or Somalia.

Sooo..that the only choice? Big giant socialist government or Somalia? no in between?

/lame comparison


You know how I know you have no idea what Socialism actually is?
 
2012-01-25 01:38:47 PM
Kazan: vpb: GaryPDX: If Europe is so great, you guys should move there.

If small government and low taxes are so great you should move to Somalia.
 
2012-01-25 01:39:58 PM
What socialism are we talking about?
 
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