I'd turn this House in to Holland in every way, shape, and form faster than you could say "Windmills and Wooden Shoes".
Legalized drugs not withstanding, I cannot fathom any other reason why we would want to be ANYTHING like any Country in Europe.
Socialism is doomed to failure, there has not been one country on Earth that has survived as long as the US has under socialism.
I'm a conservative, but it is interesting how lately we've had bad presdients and keep seesawing between the 2 parties. 8 years of Clinton and all the corruption, and the country wants "change" to the other party. Then 8 years of Bush and the country wants "change" to the other party. After 8 years of Obama's Jimmy Carter like incompetence, the country will be ready to "change" back to the Republicans. The 2 party system has now in effect amounted to continual "changing" back and forth with the result that nothing gets better and the mess gets worse.
Ronald Reagan - the last great president. Maybe forever.
HAHAHAH over two hundred years ago they financed the American Revolution. I also seem to remember we returned that favor when we bailed out their asses in World War 2.
Tell me, what about Holland today makes them so great other than legalized drugs and prostitution?
Are they a super power? Do they manufacture a lot of goods that the world cannot do without?
Are there people all over the world trying to immigrate to Holland? Do they have 18 million people in their country illegally?
Yeah, they have their **** together alright, at least until the next Hitler comes walking over them again and they come screaming to the US and NATO allies to bail them out.
I don't have any animosity towards Holland in particular, I think it is a much greater country than France for instance. I just don't think any country the size of the state of Maryland is a good candidate to compare Governments with.
Hire me, I will straighten things out!! :)
Two party, three party, twenty party, we will always have the problems we have had over the last twenty years. Anyone who has the arrogance that it takes to stand up in front of the American people as a whole and claim that they are the answer to all the questions they have ever asked about Government is doomed to fall short.
Obama will be no different. He wrote more checks that his skinny *** can cash, and he will have to resort to breaking campaign promises or outright lying in order to do anything in Washington.
The bigger problem than the two party system is the stupidity of the American voter.
Oops I thought I was posting in the ONLY political thread because I saw some posts about Bush and Obama. Sorry about that, mods!