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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (102919)	5/2/2005 7:05:51 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The influx of Muslims in Europe is a big problem that they really need to deal with. That doesn't mean that the citizens of Scotland and England are about to lose their national health insurance, though! Or their low infant mortality rate! It doesn't make America better than England or Scotland, necessarily. It is not really always true that in America, if you don't like your standard of living you can change it. If you don't get enough food to eat when you are young, and go to a horrible inner city school, the chances are almost nil that you are going to be able to rise above that. There are a whole bunch of middle-aged Americans who lost good high tech jobs in the last recession, and will never find jobs like those again, because they don't exist in America. And they have no health insurance, and statistics show that middle-aged Americans without health insurance have more, and more serious diseases than insured Americans. There isn't so much this unfortunate class of people can do about that. If my teenaged daughter had performed some drunken prank, the police would have brought her home. If she'd been black, more likely she would have ended up with a juvenile criminal record. There are so many inequities in America and they are not all surmountable. That changing your standard of living thing is often a myth.