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Social mobility in the U.S. is not static -- look at the Forbes list of the 100 richest people. Every year it's different. Some move onto the list while others fall out.

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Originally posted by Merk
Did anyone else notice how this thread turned immediately to the be about the U.S. economy instaed of an actual debate?
I noticed it. All these threads turn to bashing the United States. Sometimes I feel like Gulliver among the Lilliputians.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Social mobility in the U.S. is not static -- look at the Forbes list of the 100 richest people. Every year it's different. Some move onto the list while others fall out.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/LSE_SuttonTrust_report.htm

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Originally posted by Merk
Did anyone else notice how this thread turned immediately to the be about the U.S. economy instaed of an actual debate?
Did you read the post or just see America and assume it was America bashing?
Again, my post said "It's showing how we always get these economic doomsday predictions."
Then people chose to get all defencive about America instead of attempting to show why these might not be doomsday predictions.

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Originally posted by Amaurote
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/LSE_SuttonTrust_report.htm
Illegal aliens with less than a sixth-grade education and no job skills would skew anyone's figures on poverty and social mobility. I was talking about legal residents.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Western Europe is in deep trouble. Growth is low, unemployment is high, most people are dependent on the state and welfare services are falling apart. Yet most politicians defend the European Social Model. Reforms merely scratch the surface. But the Model is not the solution to these problems – it is the problem, says economist Johnny Munkhammar. Discuss.
Western Europe has a problem with its model. Over dependence on the welfare state is a huge problem. It is masked by the large amounts of migrant labour which is doing the menial work that many low ability/motivated people now refuse to do.

The US model has a huge problem with its wealth gap that causes huge social division. Just look at New Orleans what a mess!!! Thats not a model I like.

The trick is to do both, but I haven't seen a model that works at the moment.

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Originally posted by Merk
Outgrowing America for 6 months doesn't mean a lot. That's not exactly a long term trend.

My real question is, what are the unemployement numbers?
My answer was: where's the doomsday?

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Originally posted by Merk
Outgrowing America for 6 months doesn't mean a lot. That's not exactly a long term trend.

My real question is, what are the unemployement numbers?
Do you mean unemployment numbers or the number of people claiming benefit?

Basically Europe has the highest health care figures, lowest child death rate, lowest teenage pregnancy rate, lowest teenage alcohol and drugs consumption rate, etc. in the world.

Things are changing though. Multi-nationalism (globalisation) is doing a lot to rot Europe from the inside out: Privitisations which benefit no one but the rich, importing workers who pay taxes at the level of the country they come from, etc.
The Euro is partly to blame as well.

I'm not in the mood to go into it all in detail, but basically we're being sold down the river on a water biscuit...And it's about to sink.

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Originally posted by Palynka
My answer was: where's the doomsday?
Doomsday never comes.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Do you mean unemployment numbers or the number of people claiming benefit?

Basically Europe has the highest health care figures, lowest child death rate, lowest teenage pregnancy rate, lowest teenage alcohol and drugs consumption rate, etc. in the world.

Things are changing though. Multi-nationalism (globalisation) is doing a lot to rot Europe from ...[text shortened]... l, but basically we're being sold down the river on a water biscuit...And it's about to sink.
UNemployment numbers.

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Originally posted by Merk
Doomsday never comes.
So are you agreeing that the "European Social Model" is not in any type of crisis?

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Originally posted by Merk
UNemployment numbers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1210714.stm

I can't be arsed copy and pasting, sorry. But this gives full figures (European and world)

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Originally posted by Palynka
So are you agreeing that the "European Social Model" is not in any type of crisis?
I wouldn't go that far. Crisis is a fer piece from doomsday.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1210714.stm

I can't be arsed copy and pasting, sorry. But this gives full figures (European and world)
I don't see any surprises in those numbers. The U.K. is fine for example. This country would be up in arms if we had some of those unenjoyment numbers though.

I guess the only other question is what percentage of the population works for the government.

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Originally posted by Merk
I wouldn't go that far. Crisis is a fer piece from doomsday.
So exactly where is the crisis?