Europeans get more vacation and live better.

[Servonaut]

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mac2  (1000+ posts)     Wed Mar-05-08 12:02 PM
Original message
Europeans get more vacation and live better. 
According to Lou Dobbs, Europeans have at least a month vacation. They also have National Health Care. Their dollar worth more than ours yet we work ourselves into Diabeties and Heart Disease...Cancer.

I don't want to hear our Congress and business leaders say we need to do more. We have gone to re-train, be more productive (work longer hours than any developed country), cut back our wages, etc. yet they don't look after our best interests. They have now bankrupted our treasury and economy. They look after everyone elses interests since NAFTA.

NAFTA has to go. They are destroying our country for their own profit and the loss of our power and wealth. Get your own slaves.

DC we tell you what you can and can't do under our laws and Consitution not the other way around. You are lawless and might I say even treasonous with your illegal wars and economic bad management.

 

The first post is a good one

NC_Nurse  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-05-08 12:05 PM
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1. Maybe it's time to move.

There is alot of the usual DUmmy nonsense in the thread but this is my favorite.

JDPriestly  (1000+ posts)       Wed Mar-05-08 12:23 PM
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5. Agreed mac2. Americans work longer and more but not as efficiently
 as Europeans.

Americans' lives are out of balance. People are working 50-60 hour weeks. You can do that until you keel over, but, unless you really, really enjoy your work, you will be a zombie before long. And zombies are not good workers.

We need to institute a 30-hour week, so that we can feel self-righteous if we work 40-45 hours. And face it, the real reason we work so much is that we want to feel self-righteous. Oh, look how hard-working we are. If you don't work "hard" meaning long hours, you don't deserve a good life. But in fact, working 50 hours a week, week after week makes people nervous and tired and ruins life. It leaves no time for family life and results in near-orphaned children and causes health problems.

Europeans do great things with their spare time. They buy fresh vegetables and cook real food. They walk and take public transportation to work. They travel. They spend time with family and friends. They enjoy their culture.

And Americans work, work, work, work, work. What fools we are. We don't allow ourselves the time to live. And the irony is that we don't really have a higher living standard than Europeans. It's just different. We buy a lot more junk. That's the main difference.

I'm American, 100% American. But, we need to try the 30-hour week. Overtime should include anything over 30 hours. Then, maybe, we would get some balance in our lives.

[bijou]

Their dollar worth more than ours

I must get me some of those European dollars. 

[Lord Undies]

I've never been to Europe, and I don't plan to visit anytime soon.  I know several people who lived in Europe or visit often.  They all agree, outside of Great Britain, and outside the usual tourist traps,  Europe is pretty much a toilet. 

It is amusing how anything that supports the DUmmies' hopes and dreams that the USA is not the center of the world is like heroin to them.  I know it stems from the fact that as long as the USA leads the world it stands as a constant reminder that liberalism and socialism is not necessary.

[Carl]

JDPriestly  (1000+ posts)       Wed Mar-05-08 12:23 PM
Response to Original message
5. Agreed mac2. Americans work longer and more but not as efficiently
 as Europeans.

Americans' lives are out of balance. People are working 50-60 hour weeks. You can do that until you keel over, but, unless you really, really enjoy your work, you will be a zombie before long. And zombies are not good workers.

We need to institute a 30-hour week, so that we can feel self-righteous if we work 40-45 hours. And face it, the real reason we work so much is that we want to feel self-righteous. Oh, look how hard-working we are. If you don't work "hard" meaning long hours, you don't deserve a good life. But in fact, working 50 hours a week, week after week makes people nervous and tired and ruins life. It leaves no time for family life and results in near-orphaned children and causes health problems.

Europeans do great things with their spare time. They buy fresh vegetables and cook real food. They walk and take public transportation to work. They travel. They spend time with family and friends. They enjoy their culture.

And Americans work, work, work, work, work. What fools we are. We don't allow ourselves the time to live. And the irony is that we don't really have a higher living standard than Europeans. It's just different. We buy a lot more junk. That's the main difference.

I'm American, 100% American. But, we need to try the 30-hour week. Overtime should include anything over 30 hours. Then, maybe, we would get some balance in our lives.

If stupid were a commodity you would be rich if not for the fact that your only customers already posses it.

[Splashdown]

God this is so simple.

DUmmies, find a part-time job that gives you a 40-hour work week. Buy less "junk." Live the life you want.

Just don't ask those who want to be more ambitious to sink down to your level.

Everybody's happy.

Except, of course, the DUmmies are never happy unless they're miserable.

[Lacarnut]

I have the answer to all the Dummies dreams consolidated into one word. MOVE

[franksolich]

I have the answer to all the Dummies dreams consolidated into one word. MOVE

Damn, larcarnut, sir, I wish they would.

I truly wish they would.

But they won't.

[DumbAss Tanker]

They also have 10+% unemployment, 50%+ taxes and VAT on top of that, no 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th or 6th Amendment rights, a huge Muslim illegal immigration and demographic problem, $10 a gallon gas, as much elbow room as a hallway coat closet, and militant unions that can and do shut down the transportation net anytime someone starts to fix any of the the rest of those problems.  And, of course, most of them have the French for next-door neighbors.

The trains do run on time, though.  Mostly.  Unless there's a strike.

 

[dandi]

Anyone who has time should check out the BBC series "Meet The Neighbors", hosted by Jeremy Clarkson. He travels around Europe by car reporting on life in several EU countries. Clarkson can be an insufferable ass at times but he's funny. I love his work on Top Gear.

video.aol.com/video-detail/jeremy-clarkson-meets-neighbors-3-by-husyk/411081977 - 73k -

If the link doesn't work, just Google "meet the neighbors clarkson".

Enjoy.

[DixieBelle]

They also have 10+% unemployment, 50%+ taxes and VAT on top of that, no 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th or 6th Amendment rights, a huge Muslim illegal immigration and demographic problem, $10 a gallon gas, as much elbow room as a hallway coat closet, and militant unions that can and do shut down the transportation net anytime someone starts to fix any of the the rest of those problems.  And, of course, most of them have the French for next-door neighbors.

The trains do run on time, though.  Mostly.  Unless there's a strike.

 

You took the words right out of my mouth!

I think I recall an article not long ago that said Europe (UK in particular) is experiencing brain drain and that the best and brightest are leaving for a better life elsewhere.

Silly DUmmies.