This is just false. America is not perfect and Obama is a bad president but just look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, ... If you are capable and smart the USA is still the best place to be. Just look at the Forbes list of young billionaires practically all of them that are self made are americans. You had to go way back in to the past to find Henry Ford, in Europe the matter is much worse.
The two party system in USA is not perfect, that's true but better than the EU dictatorship. Ingenuity is rewarded as I've shown in the previous paragraph, but ofcourse there are some connected big boys. That's true for every country.
America is full of new and established enterprises. Just compare the growth rate of USA vs EU it's embarrassing. And for me a socialist country has no benefits just theft and corruption. And whole generations of people that rely on social benefits.
First is true but the same is true in EU. The wastefulness of USA vs EU can't be compared, EU is full of thieves. There is no fear in USA, it (is/was) the beacon of free speech. While the people have access to guns the goverment will never try and invade the american ideal too much. In EU people have nothing to defend themselves. A small elite, that's not true. If you are sucesfull you can be an elite in USA too. Some are entitled but compare that to socialist USSR.
You power of observation is flawed and biased. I never said USA is an ideal country but compared to EU there is no comparisson. Some asian countries are even closer to my ideal concept of a country but I would never fit into that eviroment, so Texas will have to do. And as a plus the weather there is great, there's lots of space and real estate is cheap.
The EU isn't a nation-state in the same way as the US is, you are comparing 27 countries with One country. For Example, here in Ireland, the economic collapse was caused by both the EU/IMF AND Self-Made Billionaires. All on them to a man were self-made. But they weren't engaging in new enterprise, they were buying into existing enterprise. Ireland was in around 2008 the MOST open economy in the world. Easy for business, supportive of entrepreneurs on paper. But the problem is and I still believe you don't see it, that in income inequality in America is so vast that those who would earn a billion are not the elite, not the chosen few.
Is there a Democratic deficit in the EU? Yep
Do I want my country to be in the EU? Nope
Does my country have problems with Bureaucracy? You bet your ass it does
Is the EU a dictatorship? No
Is social democracy a bad idea? Insofar as universal citizenship, yes, because Social $$$ can buy votes, so money gets wasted. If you had to earn a vote, it would be a much better system. IMO
Is the Single Member non transferable system of political election in the US better? No, it is most certainly not.
The US and the EU have failed their people, but the EU at least has the excuse of consisting of 27 countries and is an economic union with limited political union.
I think you have to understand that I am not advocating one system over another, as both are fucked. I am saying that the problems with government are inherent in ALL systems. None of them work in practice, but theoretical Socialism is infinitely more palatable for the good of humanity, in practice, not so much (although Marshall Tito did an ok job in comparison).
The reason the state exists is to protect people. Today that means physical, economic, and social protection.
The USA does not provide free College, free healthcare and has a serious problem with poverty supports and poverty related crimes.
The EU Social-Democracies like Ireland provide free College with problems, free healthcare with problems, and poverty related supports with poverty related crime a problem too.
You can forgive me for reading your reasons for leaving to the US, when I sit here in Ireland with as good if not better opportunities and conditions, even in a current economic crisis.
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