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Originally Posted by Saturn69
What? The Earth doesn't stop at California and New York? There are other people on this planet? Get out! Really? And they don't live like us, but they're fine with that? Whoa. I need to sit down....
Why does everyone paint Europe out to be some hum-drum, grayish world where everyone shlumps to and fro, never smiling, simply living to work? We live for our jobs over here, we spend more money than we need to on crap we really don't need because the television tells us it will make our lives complete to own Product X yet when we get it in the mail, it sits on our counter or our desk or in our garage never to be used after the initial "Oooooo!" phase is over and we pay 18.9% interest on it and then complain about it. And that makes us better.....how? Sure, we have a great form of Government (that we no longer govern, we simply let it off the leash and then complain when it craps on our lawn), we have a beautiful and varied landscape (that we seem more than eager to ravage if it will save us a nickel on a gallon of gas) and we have a kind, generous and loving citizenry (that we constantly demonize as Liberal for upholding supposedly Christian values when they clash with Conservative ones, yet the Conservatives claim to be the more Christian of the two)...anyway, we have all that and what do we do with it? Nothing. Nada. Oh, we have it alright, but the have is more important than the want. We are capable of being so much more than the mindless automatons that we've become if we could simply see beyond The Now. |
Don't be a smart ass. I know they are fine with how they live, otherwise they wouldn't live that way. I never said my way of life was better, it's just better to me. Besides I am not an American.
You're saying I am acting like there isn't anyone else, or other ways of life, and I'm not, I'm just saying it's THEIR way of life because it's what THEY like. So by the same token, you're saying we should live like them because they take trains? Well guess what, we don't have any trains. And even more hocking? I don't care. I like to drive. It's called FREEDOM, and we pay 40% tax for it.... Why do you think we separated from the Europeans? Because we wanted to live different ways.
I like my freedom to drive my own vehicle, because then I can go wherever I want, whenever I want to.
I don't hate Europeans, I just don't want to live there. Ya know, the same way you guys keep spewing stuff about America being so great, and it is because you're free to do what you please. Now we have environmentalists telling us we need to give up the freedom to drive.
What I'm saying is that before we worry about my double converter equipped vehicles, maybe we aught to look at them smoke stacks on factories spewing black smoke. I'm all for being green, but we need to focus on the right spot. Our cars are many times cleaner now, and the factories are NOT. Yet guess where the environuts focus their evil stink eye? Yep, on my god given right to drive where and when I damn well please.
I don't want to take a train, they take forever, and only go when THEY want to. And somehow we praise how fantastic a train is, but flying? Oh, that is NOT ok, shut down the evil airports.
This whole time you're telling me I shouldn't look down at the Euro way of life, while all the while looking down at my way. So I have to be accepting, but you city folk get to dictate? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, as long as it is the same as yours........
