Ryft Wrote:First, people like me do not deride Europeans for being socialist. We deride the American government for trying to be. People like me don't really give a rats ass what Europe does to itself. Second, you are practically making my argument for me. You point proudly to the LHC which cost approximately nine billion dollars shouldered by a coalition of some twenty nations, in contrast to the technological achievements and scientific contributions of NASA (from the Apollo missions to space probes and telescopes) which have cost hundreds of billions of dollars shouldered mostly by the capitalist United States itself. So thanks for that.
Because pooling resources is cheating right
And the Chinese rely mostly on their undervalued-on-purpose coin for their own survival, they even admit it and their entire success depends on how they control the coin.
