did anyone watch the yank elections?

[Todd]

Rose, a couple points: Canada is great. I was in Canada during the election actually on business. I spoke about this over dinner with my customers. Here's the thing with Canada it has less population than California. I believe that simplifies the rollout of socialised medicine significantly. Please read what I said again about France and Greece. The point I was making was when we see those riots we say see there's no money to support these programs socialism doesn't work. It's used as a justification. I said there's some truth in that point, but that's not the whole truth. There's more to the issues than that. The occupy movement isn't that simple either and it isn't monolithic. It's dealing with people angry over unemployment and corporate greed. Flipping the mirror around, people say see capitalism doesn't work. To which I say there's some truth to that, but it's not the whole truth it's more complicated than that. People make decisions often based on their fears and they use their logic to justify the decisions that fear leads them to.

I was trying to answer the question Luna posed not really spell out my full view on the topic. The US has a hard time accepting what it thinks is Socialism because it skews what the word means and it strikes directly at its people's core identity. That said, No system anywhere is all roses and puppies, and no country exercises its implementation of a system the same way as any other country...it has to morph to the peculiarity of its own citizens. The US for that reason will always have tension and mixture in what it does, and that seems to be the way everyone likes it.