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Well, since you mentioned quoting, allow me to share with you one of my favorite movie quotes:

Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

Not true. Excluding as per usual being told to leave, the thread is about whether the government should regulate or not. Whether it should intervene. I was pointing out that numerous private industries here are no better than the worst government department. Furthermore, some industries (products) need government intervention to promote competition and value for the customer (the citizen), rather than just the shareholders of the monopoly.

Just like roads, the Australian government just decided to build their own fiber to the home network. This will allow 30 to 40 companies to offer their broadband services nationwide. They will effectively lease the capacity at cost price. Repubs here would choke at the $43 billion of tax paper dollars being invested to build it. Yet the tax payer is the very person who will benefit the most from this. They have effectively negated the dominant incumbent carrier that owns the majority of the copper lines.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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Well if the question would of been where in the world would Booyah choose to live the answer would of been simple.

From what I see and read, I like Canada too. Beautiful country, great people, great attitude and beautiful towns and cities. Canadians and Aussies have learned a lot from each other. I certianly recognize their high standard of living. Furthermore, if I was your average Joe American, I would have migrate there yesterday.

You want a great example of attitude? even though they are doing better than you, plenty of people here still joke on them and rule them out. The joke is on you guys, certainly not them.

People also claim that the holocaust is a hoax, whats your point. Is the blanket approach your only means of addressing a a situation? I for one would rather live in the USA as opposed to Canada but I must be delusional because I am in the pits of hell right?

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are you living in a city that is comparable in size to Melbourne? if so, then i'm calling shenanigans. there is not one city in America with a population of >50k that does not have at least 5 mobile carriers and/or broadband providers. according to wiki, Melbourne's population is estimated at ~4 mil. that makes it larger than L.A. so unless you live in Chicago, L.A., or N.Y., comparing melbourne to a city of 500k is apples and oranges.not getting enough time off or how someone else earned more money or how there's not enough choice in broadband providers.

Thanks to county rights and all of that bureaucratic inefficient government that repubs like, most places have a handful of providers. Once again, interesting how the definition of smaller government varies from Aus conservative to US conservative. Smaller government to Aussies literally means less government. Smaller government to repubs actually means lots of small governments. AKA inefficiency / duplicated salaries. How many companies would survive having to have a separate division in each county and city performing the same job? None. In the DC area I have 1, comcast. I don't even have DSL. So I have to wait for FIOS to be choice 2.

and now you're telling me that the dems are the champions of competition??? the very same people who are attempting to unleash a monstrous health care bill that will ultimately create a single payer system and eliminate all competition in the health industry???

I thought this one is another no-brainer. Public option equals competition. After all, may the best man (per say) win. I have a hunch it will be the government.

Americans succeed despite the government, not because of it. our winner-take-all attitude has been a source of human progress and innovation from the day this country was formed. there's a reason why the U.S. has over 300 Nobel prize winners, while Australia has 10 (not a typo - that's it). and it's probably because they didn't sit around pissing and moaning about not getting enough time off or how someone else earned more money or how there's not enough choice in broadband providers.

That is great. I have never denied the country's past success. This also ties into the argument of having the most entrepreneurs etc. I'll be the first to recognize that someone here will make the next facebook and become a billionaire. However, what about the other 3003 million? That is where Social democracies like Australia are kicking azz. Where rather than a limited group of self serving elitists doing well, 'We the People' are all doing well and sharing the success.

That heyday era is gone. Have you seen the US's education rankings? A hell of a lot of what is being developed today is due to highly educated immigrants like Neil Bohr. Certainly not some Nascar / NFL / E! channel obsessed fool.

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According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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No this seems great compared to places like Finland. We want a majority of things handled by the individual and private sector and I believe that type of thinking is one of the things to be credited to the success of america. You should of married a woman from Europe because were a different breed over here and I dont every see you being happy living here. ;)

Oh dear, I think you did say what you thought he should have done and couched it in racial terms, thus proving what I said all along, to you happiness is synomonous with living under a very specific and unchanging political regime ;)

Well from the assumptions your making I think its obvious you dont know me at all, I have explained to you where I am coming from in every way I can and yet you continue to want to paint me as a neandrathal. I will leave you to your distorted view of reality.

When you feel resistance you need to pull the Q tip out. ;)

I am not 'painting' you as anything, you are doing it all on your own, or perhaps what I quoted didn't come from you? Needless to say, I haven't mentioned neanderthals or called you anything that I can recall, not even niave or stupid. You're getting off lightly ;)

Refusing to use the spellchick!

I have put you on ignore. No really, I have, but you are still ruining my enjoyment of this site. .

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I would be very surprised if the government didn't pay the telecoms companies directly or otherwise offer some sort of incentive or subsidy to do this. That's usually how these things work.

More than likely.

But that just means that all Finns must pay (the funding source of a subsidy) in order for individuals who (voluntarily) live in areas where a broadband system is impractical (cost-wise).

Surely it benefits those in rural areas, but at the expense of those whom are not.

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No one needs a piece of paper to be taken seriously.

Apparantly on VJ you do... Unless you interpret this another way:

Matt, you have never enlightened us on what your background, as in education, is in.

But I don't take offense. We'll soon see how trivial Booyah's college-granted reputation looks once his beloved Australian housing bubble pops.

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No this seems great compared to places like Finland. We want a majority of things handled by the individual and private sector and I believe that type of thinking is one of the things to be credited to the success of america. You should of married a woman from Europe because were a different breed over here and I dont every see you being happy living here. ;)

Oh dear, I think you did say what you thought he should have done and couched it in racial terms, thus proving what I said all along, to you happiness is synomonous with living under a very specific and unchanging political regime ;)

Well from the assumptions your making I think its obvious you dont know me at all, I have explained to you where I am coming from in every way I can and yet you continue to want to paint me as a neandrathal. I will leave you to your distorted view of reality.

When you feel resistance you need to pull the Q tip out. ;)

I am not 'painting' you as anything, you are doing it all on your own, or perhaps what I quoted didn't come from you? Needless to say, I haven't mentioned neanderthals or called you anything that I can recall, not even niave or stupid. You're getting off lightly ;)

You have been a little gentle today, whats wrong with you is the old age finally getting to you. :P

Nor did I say you called me anything. I have really gone out of my to point out my point of view a POV I find reasonable, you do not but if only you could see things my way, imagine how enlightened you would be. ;)

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But I don't take offense. We'll soon see how trivial Booyah's college-granted reputation looks once his beloved Australian housing bubble pops.

The house prices just went up again and by 6% in the last month. There is a serious shortage of homes there.

I am looking at building two town homes and find it hard to even find a builder who is free.

Edited by Booyah!

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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All I want to say is...gotta love the Finns!!!

Our timeline:

2/88: We met in Sydney, Australia at a youth hostel! He's Finnish, I'm American-both were in our early 20s at the time and fresh out of college (so couldn't afford to visit each other's countries after that!). We had a three-day romance, then went our separate ways. He actually was going to Sydney a week later, but decided at the last minute to cut his trip short in another country and go early. Wow.

1988-1998: Wrote "snail mail" letters/sent Xmas cards, but lived our separate lives. I married someone else, divorced in 2006...he lived with someone for years and then that ended.

10/08: Because of a series of random life events, I Googled my Finn Man and found him (but no link to his email, and the website his name was on was in Estonian so I couldn't even read it!). It took me two weeks to find a link to someone else, who forwarded my email to him (we were both single at the time thankfully!!!!). The email went to his spam folder but he happened to check it that day and responded back to me immediately! This was after 10 years of no contact and almost 21 years of not seeing each other after we first met.

11/08-5/09: We traveled back and forth to visit each other. Love at first (second?) sight!

7/09: Married in Helsinki, Finland...after meeting randomly 21 1/2 years ago and finding each other again!!!!!

8/13/09: I-130 sent!!!!!!!!!

Rest is on my timeline!

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Indeed :lol:

I know what you think you are saying (I think) but there are consequences to what you are saying that you don't seem to grasp.

Anyway, I don't think you are a complete git, just misguided :P

Refusing to use the spellchick!

I have put you on ignore. No really, I have, but you are still ruining my enjoyment of this site. .

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Indeed :lol:

I know what you think you are saying (I think) but there are consequences to what you are saying that you don't seem to grasp.

Anyway, I don't think you are a complete git, just misguided :P

:lol:

Well I guess its another case of agreeing to disagree. Maybe we will have better luck on the next issue, I guess you could say Im a dreamer. :P

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All I want to say is...gotta love the Finns!!!

Damn Straight

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Edited by Booyah!

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

 

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