On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 09:04:57 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Dave Hall wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:

In most European countries, people have longer life spans, the murder
rate is lower, the crime rate is lower, fewer children die in their
youth, a much smaller percentage of the population dies in prison, there
are far fewer homeless, and so forth and so on, ad infinitum.

We have greater wealth, greater opportunities, more satisfying
rewards, and the highest standard of living on the planet.

Europeans have a higher quality of life, and your counter is that there
are more opportunities to become obscenely wealthy here? That's your
rejoinder?

Oh...and we do not have the highest standard of living on the planet.




Because of this, this country attracts all sorts of riff-raff, which
can't cut it in our fast paced reward-for-achievement society, and
they end up in prison or on the streets. Perhaps if we were a bit more
selective on just who we allow to immigrate here, some of those
problems might diminish.

Wow!

There are a lot of Turks, former East Germans, and immigrants from
many other countries living in Germany and the Netherlands who would
disagree with your 'quality of life' idea.

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!