You can add China as another country that English is rapidly becoming more common everyday, especially with the younger people. At least it has surprised me just how many Chinese people I have met that speak English when I have been in China.
Of course they are a whole bunch of Chinese people here in the US that can't speak a word of Chinese. I really don't what that has to do with anything, I just thought I'd mention it.
(Admittedly they are second or third generation Chinese Americans.)
Of course they are a whole bunch of Chinese people here in the US that can't speak a word of Chinese. I really don't what that has to do with anything, I just thought I'd mention it.
(Admittedly they are second or third generation Chinese Americans.)
And there is a whole bunch of Chinese people who think they are speaking English, but nobody can understand them.
And they usually work at the drive through window.
No wonder my order is always messed up.
Kind of like Spanish speaking people around here. Funny thing is that they get mad at me for not being able to understand Spanish. But that's okay, I'm learning how to speak Cherokee.
Common language, we don' need no stinkin' common language.
Detroit alone, a city I have known intimately all my life, provides abundant examples of third world encroachment.
I don't dispute for one second your description nor your pithy summation of how it got that way, but it was, at one point, First World.
The charming and eloquent quant made the claim that parts (by which I took him to something larger than a city block) of the U.S. are still Third World.
As you well stated, those that went left made something grand into a Third World replica, but it wasn't Third World to start with.*
And I don't cut him any slack for abusing the English language. He chose to pop off, he can play by big boy rules.
Of course, that's probably a EU war crime or something...
*Well, it wasn't after we liberated it from the French and British who helped themselves from the Indians, but that's another thread.
i know that whenever i need it i can wonder into the A&E department and after passing a few details i can have access to the worlds best doctors without having to worry about healthcare insurance.
Then I suppose you would love:
Your planes built by DeHaviland or BAe
Your cars built by British Leyland. (oops, we have American Leyland)
Your food produced by, say, a Soviet collective and prepared by a Soviet approved restaurant.
Health CARE (that is, by the way, routine care of the MOST personal piece of property you possess) should be no different than any other personal service. Health INSURANCE (that is, the financial risk-sharing of some individual's personal heath tragedies) can be easily purchased, with ample alternatives and options, were it not for government mandates for all kinds of care many folks do not need and would not buy.
I love you left-wing types who ramble on about freedom, rights, "get them out of my bedroom" who then surrender there health to bureaucrats.
A friend and business collegue suffered an rare and killing type of cancer five years ago. He recieved unique, experimental treatments that ridded him of the cancer, seemingly for good. Those treatments would not be available but for US medical research, unhindered by government types nixing them because of costs. The insurance picked up the tab, btw. His comment on government healthcare at breakfast, "Good, thanks a lot, I'd be dead now under this plan."
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- The head of the Congressional Budget Office dealt a setback to House and Senate lawmakers seeking to overhaul the U.S. health system, saying their plans won’t curb government spending on medical care.
“We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount,” Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan agency, told the Senate Budget Committee today. “On the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility.”
The CBO is Congress' own research arm.
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Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
Just like in Canada, it's The Man's way or no way. God help you guys, fight this with all you can. You have no idea what it's like.
Found at: Cafe Hayek: Elitism, When Convenient
(Don Boudreaux is a colleague of Walter Williams at George Mason U.)
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Don Boudreaux
In yesterday's Washington Post, (i.e. 7/13/09) Peter Wallison rightly challenges the Obama administration's conclusion that ordinary Americans lack the capacity to understand complex financial instruments - an incapacity so overpowering that even full disclosure by sellers of these instruments is insufficient to ensure that the typical person can be trusted to choose whether or not to invest in such instruments.
But let's accept, for argument's sake, the administration's judgment that ordinary Americans can't adequately assess complexity. Doesn't it then follow that Americans' election of Mr. Obama to high office deserves no credit? After all, isn't the task of assessing the merit of one person's ideas on economics, foreign affairs, ethics, law, and other difficult topics extraordinarily complex? Given that Joe Six-Pack and Jane Soap-Opera cannot be trusted with the relatively straightforward task of sensibly investing their own money, how can they be trusted to meet the far more complex challenge of choosing powerful national leaders?
Is it still ironic that lefties, (the "people" of 'choice'), work night and day to eliminate choice from the public plate? Sworn enemies of small business, (the fundament of choice here in America), they seem to be gasming at the thought of the "people's" automobile, the "people's" Bank, and licking their chops at dictating "rules" re: Medicine to everyone. Private insurance will be illegalpost the gubnmint takeover!!!!! You cannot even self-insure.
When will this artifice die a proper death????
Will
BTW. Forcing people to enter a contract has long been held to be a perversion of the Constitution. Sacred leader, your thoughts??
It certainly looks like atheism still prevails in Moscow.
MSNBC/NBC/CBS/New York Times/Washington Post/LA Times/BBC would have trumpeted something along the lines of "Bush's Actions earn World's Snub" or something similiar.
