THE MANDATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL

[Captain Oates 911]

You still haven't told us precisely how "other first world countries" have "dragged" this country through the debate and passage of PPACA.

My point is that virtually all social advances in the US have been preceded and pioneered by other first world countries - notably the UK

This allowed the US to see how it was going there and to finally catch up

I know that a mantra of the right is that no other country matters and we never take notice of them or do as they do in anything - no matter how small.

If the French found the secret of eternal life, we would reject it because it's French

In fact this is an urban myth and as Winston Churchill (right wing icon) said

"The USA always does the right thing eventually - after it's tried everything else"

His mother was American so he had some insight into the mind-set

Find one social advance in the USA that was not pioneered elsewhere ?

That doesn't work because right wingers see all social advances as social degeneration - they want the cave and the club and might is right and the weak should die. Ironic that they are usually followers of christ at the same time.

Now they are feeling the might of public opinion with Barry the man up 8% in the swing states and the supreme court siding with progress

[JohnR! 5,495]

This is comical in of the poster you aimed it at. I guess us slow Americans still haven't reached first world posting status either.

The First World is defined by American standards... :rofl:

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My point is that virtually all social advances in the US have been preceded and pioneered by other first world countries - notably the UK

This allowed the US to see how it was going there and to finally catch up

This is a different statement and it's one I am much more inclined to agree with. Other first world countries set examples, America watches and learns and has a lengthy internal debate and eventually follows. Yes, I do think this is (for the most part) true.

However, I would like to see you admit that your initial statement that other first world countries "dragged" America into things like the PPACA was hyperbolic nonsense.... the kind of thing you'd hear in a low class bar room

[JohnR! 5,495]

"The USA always does the right thing eventually - after it's tried everything else"

That is the concept of evolution.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

What are you kvetching about?

Sorry. Don't speak Yiddish. Not many Yids around here either.

[rocks 494]

Certainly if you long for America to be like Brittain Britain

We Britain led the world in the industrial revolution

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Sorry. Don't speak Yiddish. Not many Yids around here either.

It's in the english dictionary. Look it up.

[Captain Oates 911]

The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.

Aneurin Bevan In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1952), p. 162.

Things don't change much in 60 years

Edited June 29, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It's in the english dictionary. Look it up.

I speak American.

[JohnR! 5,495]

The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.

Aneurin Bevan In Place of Fear (William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1952), p. 162.

Things don't change much in 60 years

Face it, girls, I'm older and I have more insurance. (Tawanda/Kathy Bates in 'Fried Green Tomatoes', 1991.) :rofl:

I speak American.

It is almost the same thing. English is like American, without the improvements.

[rocks 494]

Face it, girls, I'm older and I have more insurance. (Tawanda/Kathy Bates in 'Fried Green Tomatoes', 1991.) :rofl:

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It is almost the same thing. English is like American, without the improvements.

They speak funny, and use the wrong words for everything, like they are so superior! They would all be living under the thumb of that paper hanging SOB if it wasn't for America.

[JohnR! 5,495]

They speak funny, and use the wrong words for everything..

Not to mention they insist on driving on the wrong side of the road! Hopefully one of these days we will be able to drag them screaming into the XXI century and the modern age...

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Sorry. Don't speak Yiddish. Not many Yids around here either.

Schmucks!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Hopefully one of these days we will be able to drag them screaming into the XXI century and the modern age...

Stop usin' them furriner numbers! In America we use American numbers. Sheesh.