will the US military power dominate the world

In article ,
says...
Jealousy of what ?? of American way of life !!! let me laugh


yes, we have airconditioning...



--
When dealing with propaganda terminology one sometimes always speaks in
variable absolutes. This is not to be mistaken for an unbiased slant.

In article , says...
BUFDRVR wrote:
EU standard of life is at less equal of the USA one.

After having recently spent 10 days in western Europe, I'll disagree
using one example; fuel prices. The cost of both gas and diesel in
Germany, France, Luxemburg and Belgium was *3-4 times higher*

Fuel price=TAXES= social assistance=better standard of life
Europeans car uses less fuel than american ones. Medium european car
engine=1400cc medium usa car engine=2000 cc= a lot of more fuel.
Europeans do less kilometers per year than an americans.

because some of you're counries are smaller than the metopolitan are I
live in.....


--
When dealing with propaganda terminology one sometimes always speaks in
variable absolutes. This is not to be mistaken for an unbiased slant.

yes, we have airconditioning...

yes when electricity facilities works

--
Franck

www.pegase-airshow.com
www.picavia.com

In article , says...
How much you spend every year for the sanitaty insurance? More or less than
you spend for your house?


What kind of insurance ?


--
When dealing with propaganda terminology one sometimes always speaks in
variable absolutes. This is not to be mistaken for an unbiased slant.

In article ,
"Franck" writes:
........ are made by french soft : catia (from dassault systems)

read made using a french CAD software : catia (from dassault systems)

Amusing. When I was busy developing Information Interchange protocols
between CAD systems and documentation systems, (Mid '80s) CATIA was
Boeing's baby, and a troublesome one at that. If they conned
Dassault into buying it, it would have to rank as the Comic Deal of
the century.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

An example

I pay 30$/month for ALL medical assitance (hospital, medecin, drug, glasses,
teeth......). a big party is paid directly bythe french state, the rest by
my medical insurance

you could pay more or less depends of your insurance or the company where
you work. but this a good example. For my US collegue it's not very
expensive vs the same assitance in US country
--
Franck

www.pegase-airshow.com
www.picavia.com

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:45:10 GMT, "IO" wrote:


The productive all across europe get ripped off to buy votes from the
idle and indolent, leaving them with little for their one well being.
Whati is this? Nazi-like consideartions
*ROTFL*

Your inabilty to counter the point is noted. I suggest you do calculate how
much your govt is going to take from you to pay someone elses pension and
then ask yourself whether there will be anyone about to return the favour
when you turn 75 or 80.



greg

--
$ReplyAddress =~ s#\@.*$##; # Delete everything after the '@'
The Following is a true story.....
Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:48:54 GMT, "IO" wrote:

You are one of the reason because USA is the most hated country of the
world, and i'm not jelous of you *ROTFL*


I suggest you check the headers idiot, I live europe the same as what you
do, except I have the misfortune to be in a country which is paying for it.


greg

--
$ReplyAddress =~ s#\@.*$##; # Delete everything after the '@'
The Following is a true story.....
Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:16:27 +0200, "Emmanuel Gustin"
wrote:


so nobody can object to his imprisonment in itself. It is true that the
preparation of the trial is taking far too long.


Did you ask yourself why, or is it another agusta coverup in the offing ?

The entire process is
very bureaucratic and often produces a vast and unmanageable heap of
documents, which is solemnly put in front of the judges, often in tattered
carboard boxes! And of course, in this case, continuous infighting between
the investigating teams, and a political investigation in the way the case
was handled, have done their share.

I have a pretty reasonable idea of what its like. The Rijkswacht cant wait
to fine a helpless motorist and pocket the proceeds, but when it comes to
dealing with armed gangs with connections @ the justice ministry......

It just cracks me up, Switzerland can manage to run a multi ethnic state
with none of the corrupt inter necine squabbling which characterises
Belgian society in general.


But on the other hand the delay has allowed the initial fury to subside and
at least cleared the most bizarre conspiracy theories away. I think it is
now possible (but very difficult) to assemble a jury that can give a
reasoned judgment on this case.

Methinks Dutroux may meet an unfortunate accident in prison.

And the Black economy in Belgium is gigantic as a consequence. The so
called 'poverty line' is not a valid comparison given its basis is
relative
and not absolute. There are 10s if not 100s of thousands in Belgium who
work outside the system and are not in any official figures.

This, however, implies that they have *more* money to spend
than the official figures state, not less!

Not really, I know of eastern europeans in Brussels working for 40-50
eu/day when they can get it. If they can go out and are prepared to work
for that, then the so called 'long term' unemployed can do so also.


But you are right that the scale of the 'black' economy is problem.
In general the self-employed and the rich can evade taxes, while
workers in industry cannot evade full taxation.

I cant say I blame anyone for evading taxes in Belgium when the state takes
over 2/3 of the gross of someone who is self employed.

Like a lot european countries the political will isn't there to do true
reform of the tax system, by broadening the base, removing exemptions for
the special interest groups and lowering the rates.

Here in the UK in 1987 the top rate of tax was lowered from 60 to 40%. The
overall tax take significantly increased as a consequence. Making a lie of
all the socialist drivel about it 'hurting the poor'.

The government is
now offering a 'fiscal amnesty' to get some of the money stored
on foreign bank accounts back into the country, but it remains to
be seen whether the courts will accept that procedure as lawful.

I heard about that, I cant see anyone being silly enough to fall for it
though.



greg
--
$ReplyAddress =~ s#\@.*$##; # Delete everything after the '@'
The Following is a true story.....
Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

On 19 Oct 2003 19:16:02 GMT, 362436 (Ron) wrote:

It will be interesting over the next 10 years to see how Western Europe handles
it, as their population ages even more, with much less younger people to help
pay into the system, in proportion to those who are retired and recieving the
benefits of such a social program.

Ron
Pilot/Wildland Firefighter

They've been importing large numbers of workers from Eastern Europe,
and from places like Algeria. NO matter where it's been tried,
Socialism eventually falls on its ass, as more and more taxes are
levied to buy more votes at election time.


Eric Pinnell

(Author, "Claws of The Dragon", "The Omega File")

For a preview, see: http://www.ericpinnell.com and click on "books"