Doug
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08:44:49 pm on March 28, 2006 | # |
“Support your local strike committee.”:http://leninology.blogspot.com/2006/03/support-your-local-strike-committee.html Since U.S. news won’t bother to cover strike action, particularly someplace foreign, I’ll mention it here: there are large scale strikes going on in both the U.K. and France. Resistance toward going to U.S. style job insecurity and vanishing pension plans is growing. The EU is already trying to destroy efforts like the “Mondragon Cooperatives”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Corporation in the name of Globalization, now EU states are trying to strip away worker protections to the point where local workers are as easy to exploit as those abroad.
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Pedro Pinheiro 4:00 am on March 29, 2006 | #
Both the US and Europe have gone to far into their own extremes. In the US the rights of individuals are being compromised by laws that in many cases don’t guarantee the basic human rights; In Europe, individuals are given so many rights that it chokes the economy, favoring the lazy (and in many times giving rights in legislation that afterwards can’t be honored in practice).
Personally, living in Europe, I think that the US system is closer to being the system I want to live with. Here in Europe there’s theorytically an “universal”, “free” health care system, but in practice in many countries the waiting lists are so long that you end up dying before you get the appropriate care. Anyone who can afford it gets health insurance - besides what they already pay towards social security. So we end paying for health care twice. At least in the US you mostly only pay once.