Originally Posted by ravery
Andy, it's good to hear someone from the UK say they think the US political system is better. Obama was elected on the mantra of change, and that is exactly what he's doing, only people didn't realize what exactly the change would be if they didn't look at his record and who his associates were. It appears Obama's ultimate goal is reinvent the US to look more like Europe, a Social Democracy. We have often accused him of being a Socialist and he denies that. Well, it's semantics, he wants to take what he believes is the best of both worlds between Democracy and Socialism, like much of Europe did in the last century. Right now so many of us more concerned about how all this is affecting us personally, so we drink his koolaid hoping it will restore our 401k's and thus give us security. We will pay the devil to do that.
I'll keep it general, ravery. We have a democracy, of course but it's also a Monarchy. Now perhaps that's only ceremonial and not really relevant but it does perpetuate a Class System. It's this that still blights UK politics but this is wandering off the already hijacked topic and politics should really be off topic anyway.
Bottom line on the who pays debate: you can't unscramble an egg. It doesn't matter if it's a dollar drawn on the Bank of America to pay for my warranty or a GB Pound drawn on the Bank of England to pay the little guy in the US who supplies widgets to Vauxhall in the UK. We're all in it together and we have to avoid protectionism if we are to climb out of the pooh.
Cheers
Andy G