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chris said:

You joined late in both cases, and both times it was to protect your own interests.

I was taught in school that the US had a vested interest in the out-come of both wars. Anyone who thinks that the US entered the either war based on a perceived moral obligation is a bit naive.


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This is a really stupid topic for this website, please disregard everything I said.

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Can someone explain to me why a cleaner should be paid, in a year, a thirtieth of what a football player gets in a week?

Think of it as simple supply and demand. As Return 0 said, virtually anyone could clean toilets. You really do overstate the requirements of that job. Far fewer people are capable of becoming a professional football player or a brain surgeon, no matter how badly they want it, or how hard they work at achieving it. Most of us fall somewhere in between, and while I could clean toilets (I clean my own on a regular basis) for a living, I certianly wouldn't want to, and I went into substantial debt putting myself through college so I would never have to.

Real Communism, if it could work, would be fantastic. It's people like Stalin who ruin it.

The problem is, Communism can't work, as far as attaining your ideological view of Communism. That view is a pipe dream, because Communism places far too much power into the hands of the state, and that is the crux of the problem. Have you heard the saying Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Well, think of Democracy as power, and Communism as absolute power.

Because the French have a national health service and probably spend their money better.

The primary reason healthcare is so much more expensive in the US than in other countries is malpractice insurance. The US is one of the most litigious states in the whole world (a bad thing in itself, but a simple statement of the situation). As a result, pretty much everyone and anyone involved with healthcare has to carry malpractice insurance, and the stakes are extremely high in that arena. The cost of that insurance is eventually passed on to the patients themselves. That cost will be there whether it's a national healthcare system or not. Switching to a national program will NOT reduce the cost of healthcare in the US. Using other countries with completely different socio-economic scenarios as examples of why it won't work is severely flawed. It's like saying the US and Canada should create countrywide mass transit systems for everyone because various countries in Europe have been successful in doing so as well. I hope I don't have to explain why that statement is so flawed.

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Wait, what? AFAIK, I have not been Rectally Raped^(TM) :l

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