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Entry: Greenspan's Gambits Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/greenspans_gambits#5345 Post contents: With my limited knowledge in Economics I am bound to make a stupid suggestion, but I'll go ahead with it, no matter how undignified I come out with it. In the U.S., the conservatives (I consider myself one of them- sui generis, nota bene)constantly screem or cry about the Government spending. According to them we are always on a brink of bankruptsy. We can't afford, for exemple, a universal Medicare without ruining ourselves, they say. Strange, but little Denmark,Belgium, Holland or Ireland- can ; and never mind Spain (now about to introduce a free dental care),France or Italy- and all of them economic midgets compared to the U.S.A. None of these countries seem to be unduly worried about going broke, this- despite what our American conservative Economists keep prophesizing for years. On the other hand, and from my extensive personnal experience, I find the European standard of life considerably higher in quality than ours. Proposition: Either the American Way of Life should be scrapped as inferior, being oriented mostly towards our insatiable greed for money, Or The laws of Economics shoud be scrapped,(or at least debunked) as having no universal value like Physical Laws. Anyone dares to answer? Sent at: 2008 11 22