IMPORTANT WARNING for FALLIt's that time of year. Time to get out the chainsaw and cut up a few forests for the ol' wood burner. But we all know from cutting logs that the leaves are falling...
DTJ
I prefer the term liberal. The other adjectives don't apply.
You've obviously never been there so your opinions aren't worth considering. There is plenty of land in Europe (places like Monaco and San Marino aside) -- they just use it much less wastefully than we do. They design their roads better than we do, integrate them with the natural landscape FAR better than we do, and have generated far more transportation engineering breakthroughs than America has over the past few decades. We can learn a lot from them, particularly in the area of tunnel design and construction.
Again, you obviously have no factual information on which to base your opinion. Not only does every European country have universal health care, guaranteed by the government, but they have a quality of health care that exceeds what we have in America and which is delivered a much less cost per capita. Life expectancies in Europe are statistically considerably longer than in America, which has at least something to do with the better health care they enjoy.
European student performance is vastly superior to that of American students by all statistical and objective measurements that have been used. It's really not close. American universities are generally better -- but, in Europe, tuition is free to all qualified students. It's not here, though it should be (at public universities and colleges).
On the contrary, there is very little I can think of that WOULDN'T work in America. We should be using tunnels and bridges in place of mbuttive land-scarring and environment-damaging road cuts, we should be designing our highways to blend into the landscape naturally instead of imposing them on top of their surroundings, we should have a high-speed rail network (which is ideally suited to the vastness of our geography), every city of moderate size should have a subway-metro-light rail network that ties to the local airport and regional rail network as well as key suburbs.
About the only aspect of European transportation networks that I'm not convinced should be adopted here is tolls -- though some are beginning which is a philosophy I don't buy into in the least).
You've refuted nothing. And it would not appear that you're capable of doing so anytime soon.
