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Carygrant
If this alleged stat is true --- that 80% of Americans have no passport , therein lies a huge part of the answer .
What they need are bridges , if only metaphorical .
Otherwise presumably OK , "normal" Americans tour Europe with an unbroken air of surprise and delight when they find out that it is nothing like the pictures that have somehow been built of it . Meeting Americans here is a revelation . They are just totally unprepared for what they find which is why it immediately becomes a second home for so many of them . The vast bulk of comment here shows a distressing ignorance of what goes on in Team GB , let alone , how, and , why .Most Americans are so badly misinformed that at times it almost looks like a deliberate policy to hide the " good news " and perhaps not shame them selves .
Insularity is one of the greatest disadvantages Americans suffer from , which is a circumstance which more easily allows them to beggar their global neighbours with such ease and disdain . That is , the full truth never dawns on them
The absurd attitude toward Muslims , as shown here by a very vocal group , is a prime example of poor education and complete ignorance of the truth . In civilised and balanced societies this immigrant group are an asset and cultural pleasure . The fundamental extremists are there but represent about 0.1% of their community . Maximum .
BUT , as John Maynard Keynes told us , beggaring your neighbours is but a short step away from beggaring yourself . An economic truth , because it is standing the test of time as the imminent collapse of the American Empire will once again bear testimony to .
Struck out the unintelligible nonsense.
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Keynes himself admired the Nazi economic program, writing in the foreword to the German edition to the General Theory: "[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire."
Keynes's comment, which may shock many, did not come out of the blue. Hitler's economists rejected laissez-faire, and admired Keynes, even foreshadowing him in many ways. Similarly, the Keynesians admired Hitler (see George Garvy, "Keynes and the Economic Activists of Pre-Hitler Germany," The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 83, Issue 2, April 1975, pp. 391—405).
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