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cyberdude611 -> RE: Czech US base upsets Russia. (1/22/2007 4:01:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611
Europe will always be dependant on the US. Thats never going to change.
In fact there are some economic experts in Europe who are growing very concerned that the Euro will collapse in as little as 20 years since there is nothing really backing it up. There is also serious problems developming with the healthcare systems. They were good at first, but they dont seem to be working real well with expanding populations with a high unemployment. Someone I know from Germany said that their mother had to wait over a month for a heart bypass. In the United States, they can do that operation in a matter of hours. The education systems are also having problems. Even though higher education is free over there, many are still paying money to come to American universities.
Europe also will be putting itself out on a limb if it trys to get into economic competition with the US. It will not serve their interest to break away from the US. Doing that will cause a split in the western bloc. And that would make Russia and China very happy governments.
I know there is some anti-Americanism in Europe. But those people represent a very small, but vocal portion of the population. And Americans are welcome in Europe. The French hate the US government, but they love Americans that come to Paris to spend money. Europe also understands that the US has term limits for its presidency and that Bush is not only a lame-duck, but will be gone in 2 years.
There is more backing up the Euro than the dollar and as for healthcare, universal European healthcare costs half of what the average American pays for healthcare because you pay for private profits, bureacracy and unnecessary hi-tech healthcare. You are encouraged to use healthcare to cure rather than to prevent illness which is far more expensive.
The argument isn't about anti or pro Americanism but Europe looking after itself, something which American administrations are schizophrenic about. They want Europe to spend more on defence but they don't want to compromise its own leadership. It can't have both, maybe we should just take the healthcare.
What is backing up the Euro other than 28 weak economies each having a double-digit unemployment rate? Some of them have zero growth.
As for healthcare, the US system is bad. But Europe's system is just as bad, just in a different way. Everyone has healthcare but the quality is poor and the speed of getting healthcare is very slow. Maybe it is better than nothing for the poor guy that cant rub two dimes together, but people who have money will always have better healthcare than the poor. The best doctors and hospitals in Europe charge a lot more money than the government is willing to pay. You can sit there and praise Europe's system all you want, but when it takes a month to get life-saving heart surgury, something is wrong with the system. Very wrong!
And I am in total and complete disagreement with their education system. Their education system sounds more like what the Soviet Union had than what a western democracy should have.
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