Have to be well off to afford NA cars in Germany. Friend of ours took a 2015 F150 back with him and gained about 20grand. But the warranty is not valid. There is also a capital tax on vehicles in Germany.
americans are fat and stupid
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Have to be well off to afford NA cars in Germany. Friend of ours took a 2015 F150 back with him and gained about 20grand. But the warranty is not valid. There is also a capital tax on vehicles in Germany.
Well my philosophy has always been you fix up what can be reasonably fixed up before bringing in new whether it be people, vehicles, appliances, buildings, infrastructure etc. With people, Canada has two or three million who are suffering, whether it be from poor nutrition or from sub standard living conditions. Those people should be put right before importing more people who are in as bad or worse shape than what we already have. Of the fifty thousand imports in the past year, 80% still don't have jobs, so that's about another twenty thousand (we don't expect the kids to have jobs) added to the two or three million we already have that are in those same straits! It's just Bull sh*t like many of us tried to tell Justin on his "ascention to the throne". No brains that boy!
Re: americans are fat and stupidity
Of course, Germany has a large excise tax on foreign imports, they are not stupid, they want German people to buy German built cars. It's only us NA that let everybody in.
I wonder if the Trumpers realize England is infested with Muslims and will be only too happy to ship them to the USA.......?
Theresa May and Donald Trump to hold talks on trade deal that cuts tariffs and allows workers to move between the US and UK
Theresa May and Donald Trump to hold talks on trade deal that cuts tariffs and allows workers to move between the US and UK
Theresa May and Donald Trump to hold talks on trade deal that cuts tariffs and allows workers to move between the US and UK
Theresa May and Donald Trump to hold talks on trade deal that cuts tariffs and allows workers to move between the US and UK
That's not true. They're fat but not stupid. I think they think a great deal. We will know when they stop thinking cuz we're closest. Ask the Mexicans.
Americans Tolerate Inequality Because They Over-Estimate Their Odds of Coming Out on Top
John Steinbeck conjectured in 1966 that there is not much support for redistribution in America because the working poor saw themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”. Are people willing to accept high levels of inequality if they think that everyone has a shot at climbing the social ladder? Is tolerance for inequality linked to belief in equality of opportunity?
These questions are especially relevant today, with sharply increasing inequality in many industrial economies and especially in the US. Whether or not redistribution or equal opportunity policies are supported depends on perceptions of fairness of the market system.
The (stereo)typical view on intergenerational mobility distinguishes between ‘American’ and ‘European’ attitudes.
Americans are thought to view the market system as relatively fair, and to believe in the ‘American dream’. Thus, they see view wealth as a reward for ability and effort, and poverty as the result of inability to take advantage of opportunities.
In contrast, Europeans tend to believe that the economic system is unfair, and that wealth is the result of and that wealth is the result of circumstances, family history, connections, and sticky social classes. Poverty is the result of bad luck and the inability of society to take care of the needy regardless of their effort.
Today, however, the American dream may be more accurately described by the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock in The Great Gatsby – which Gatsby likes to contemplate and reachs for relentlessly – the embodiment of a “dream” that seems “so close that [we] could hardly fail to grasp it”, that provides Gatsby with profound motivation to work hard and succeed, and yet ends up being out of reach and unattainable. In fact, new data suggest that intergenerational mobility in the US may, in fact, not be higher on average than in Europe, even though within the US there are large geographical differences in intergenerational mobility.
In a recent paper, we collect new survey and experimental data for five countries (France, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US), to document the anatomy of people’s beliefs about intergenerational mobility and the fairness of their economic system (Alesina et al. 2017). We begin by comparing people’s perceptions of mobility to recent data on actual intergenerational mobility in the five countries.
Intergenerational mobility and preferences for redistribution | VOX, CEPR
John Steinbeck conjectured in 1966 that there is not much support for redistribution in America because the working poor saw themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”. Are people willing to accept high levels of inequality if they think that everyone has a shot at climbing the social ladder? Is tolerance for inequality linked to belief in equality of opportunity?
These questions are especially relevant today, with sharply increasing inequality in many industrial economies and especially in the US. Whether or not redistribution or equal opportunity policies are supported depends on perceptions of fairness of the market system.
The (stereo)typical view on intergenerational mobility distinguishes between ‘American’ and ‘European’ attitudes.
Americans are thought to view the market system as relatively fair, and to believe in the ‘American dream’. Thus, they see view wealth as a reward for ability and effort, and poverty as the result of inability to take advantage of opportunities.
In contrast, Europeans tend to believe that the economic system is unfair, and that wealth is the result of and that wealth is the result of circumstances, family history, connections, and sticky social classes. Poverty is the result of bad luck and the inability of society to take care of the needy regardless of their effort.
Today, however, the American dream may be more accurately described by the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock in The Great Gatsby – which Gatsby likes to contemplate and reachs for relentlessly – the embodiment of a “dream” that seems “so close that [we] could hardly fail to grasp it”, that provides Gatsby with profound motivation to work hard and succeed, and yet ends up being out of reach and unattainable. In fact, new data suggest that intergenerational mobility in the US may, in fact, not be higher on average than in Europe, even though within the US there are large geographical differences in intergenerational mobility.
In a recent paper, we collect new survey and experimental data for five countries (France, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US), to document the anatomy of people’s beliefs about intergenerational mobility and the fairness of their economic system (Alesina et al. 2017). We begin by comparing people’s perceptions of mobility to recent data on actual intergenerational mobility in the five countries.
Intergenerational mobility and preferences for redistribution | VOX, CEPR
Peasants for Plutocracy: How the Billionaires Brainwashed America
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWnz_clLWpc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWnz_clLWpc