OzOne wrote in message

Ya know Max, that whole reply rates as about the most idiotic I've
seen from you.
Your lack ofunderstanding of how our Medicare, Hospital and school
system works is evident.
Your total lack of understanding of the Australian stuns me.

Your criticism assumes that I actually give a rat's posterior about social
programs in Australia.

You need to travel, see how life exists outside the USA..you might
even like it.

I love to travel. Contrary to your own xenophobic view of me and other
Americans, I love people from other countries. I've made many friends
throughout Europe, Asia, South and Central Americas and a few other msc.
places. My wife and I would love to travel to Africa, but we haven't been
there yet.

Regardless, social programs are social programs, despite whose they are.
You're right--I don't understand the first thing about your social programs,
except that they probably not unlike our own, costing taxpayers huge sums of
money. Our own constitution makes no provision for taking money from one
individual and giving it to another in the form of cash, medical care,
subsidies of various natures, and so on, ad nauseum. But we do it anyway.
So do you and most of the other countries in the First World. And it has
very little to do with compassion or need. It has to do with garnering
votes at election time. You even hinted at that in your original post.

Max