Because a state performs more functions does not necessarily mean there is a loss of freedoms for the individual.
If the state is performing a function it has to be paid for. The additional resources, taken from the realm of individual decision making, and handed over to the government to decide what will be done with them, is directly a reduction in freedom.
Its not a reduction of freedom; its a reduction in spending power. Money does not equal freedom.
Beyond that the French government also regulates commerce to a very great degree, which is also a reduction in freedom. Unfortunately the US has been heading in that direction as well.
France is nearly as capitalistic as the US. Of the developed powers, the US is the most capitalistic but Germany, France and Britain are not that far behind.
You want a pure capitalistic economic model for the US.......unfortunately that doesn't work.
As for France being at the center on a global scale, that depends on how exactly you set up the scale. Its a very subjective process. Certainly France is close enough to the center to not make it unreasonable to place it at the center, but your chart made it completely cover the center. If gives France some sort of special status it doesn't really deserve.
France covered the center of the chart because its in the middle of the political spectrum. There is nothing special about that determination. It is what it is.
Stop fooling yourself.......people aren't making this stuff up to irritate you.
Of course their not. And I never said that they where. The fact that they are wrong, has nothing to do with any desire to irritate men. And in terms of the points I was addressing, that Bush is closer to Mugabe, or Saddam, then he is to the center (including the center defined by you, with France as the center), is not just wrong its patent nonsense.
Tim, they are not wrong. You are wrong. In fact, the right is wrong on a lot of things. That's why we are in the messes we are in. When are you going to realize that your theories do not pan out in reality? |
