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  • #61
    Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
    America used to be pretty good.
    But then its populace become uberignorant, uberarrogant, and such....But we've gotten into the business of importing everything (even our educated populace is imported) and thus, we prosper.
    Became?

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    • #62
      Originally posted by chegitz guevara
      My friend used to say, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull****." That's what we are. A nation of bull****ters . . . with guns.
      The "with guns" is the answer to your original question, che

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      • #63
        Originally posted by Sava
        actually... capturing German and Japanese scientists in WW2 were a bigger factor. Be executed or help America develop the most deadly weapons in the world. Tough choice.
        How did we capture German or Japanese scientists during WWII? By the time we got to them, the war was either already over or almost so.

        We didn't capture them; they fled here earlier.

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        • #64
          Originally posted by Whoha


          that isn't true, there will always be jobs, because it doesn't matter how efficient that factory is if it has no customers.
          What the? Are you trying to say something or make a point?

          Perhaps you quoted the wrong post for your reply?

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Kucinich
            How did we capture German or Japanese scientists during WWII? By the time we got to them, the war was either already over or almost so.

            We didn't capture them; they fled here earlier.
            Einstein, Fermi and a bunch of others fled.
            von Braun and a bunch of others were "captured".
            It's almost 50/50.
            It is only totalitarian governments that suppress facts. In this country we simply take a democratic decision not to publish them. - Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Kucinich


              How did we capture German or Japanese scientists during WWII? By the time we got to them, the war was either already over or almost so.

              We didn't capture them; they fled here earlier.
              wow... you need to go to more history classes

              To us, it is the BEAST.

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              • #67
                Not really, no.

                In the European front, we didn't even reach Germany until near the end of the war on that front - our troops weren't anywhere near there before. Our troops never even landed in Japan until after the war was over.

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Kucinich
                  In the European front, we didn't even reach Germany until near the end of the war on that front - our troops weren't anywhere near there before. Our troops never even landed in Japan until after the war was over.
                  Yes but when you got there German rocket/jet propulsion scientists from Penemunde etc got quickly shipped to the US. Von Braun is the most famous of them, but most of post-war research in rockets, jet engines and in some other areas was done by German scientists imported to the US.
                  It is only totalitarian governments that suppress facts. In this country we simply take a democratic decision not to publish them. - Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister

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                  • #69
                    IIRC, we have shorter vacation time than most (all?) European countries, which probably contributes to increased productivity.
                    "I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie Allen

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Pekka
                      WalMart won't hurt from it, because they offer jobs that anyone can do. So profit wise, they should keep the pay in the minimum where they still get the job done, because they can always get someone else to do it if someone quits or is fired.
                      The job market may tighten up though for semi-skilled workers. They probably already have trouble in some regions with a tighter labor market.
                      I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                      - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by ErikM
                        Yes but when you got there German rocket/jet propulsion scientists from Penemunde etc got quickly shipped to the US. Von Braun is the most famous of them, but most of post-war research in rockets, jet engines and in some other areas was done by German scientists imported to the US.
                        I thought we were talking about during the war...

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                        • #72
                          Don't talk about the war.

                          It just boggles my mind that so much wealth can be created by blowing it out our asses. I'll bet if we worked half days but harder at it, we'd create as much wealth.
                          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                          • #73
                            The US is so wealthy imo, because of our very capitalist system. Capitalism, with some minimal regulations, has time and time again shown itself to be a powerful engine for generatiing wealth.

                            A secondary factor includes our european heritage (technology and advanced culture) that we recieved without the accompanying political infighting that plagued europe, devestating the people during two world wars.


                            I think primarily capitalism though because the richest nations on earth for their size (US, Germany and Japan) are all the most capitalistic.

                            Not that this is necessarily the best thing. Studies show that mere money will not generate happiness, and that the happiest and most advanced countries in the world are in fact Northern European social democracies, not American type capitalist.

                            http://botany1.bio.utk.edu/skeptic/rationallyspeaking/RS03-01-virtue-ethics.html



                            http://www.swt.org/share/modernity-sciam-1203high64.pdf



                            This is why, while I'll admit America has the most wealth, I do not think it has the most prosperity.
                            "Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."
                            -- Isaac Asimov

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                              • #75
                                The reason America seems to be so prosperous is because commies have not taken this country over.
                                A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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