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geoffkait, 1. The USA is a republic NOT a democracy as evidenced by our entire political system which is totally unlike any other because our founding fathers hated democracy and said so in every possible way .

2. The Social Democracy model of capitalism of northern Europe, which are all democracies, is far superior to our dog eat dog version of capitalism .

And to save you the eternal knee-jerk ignorant remark "why don't you go there" none of them are keen to admit old men highly probable to use up funds on their universal health care systems and $ 2000 + per month for private insurance  would cause me to curtail my charitable giving which I deem more important than my personal
desires .

Europe.  Now, there's an accident waiting to happen.  Thanks but no thanks.

Didn't ask you to move there, you'd be very unhappy .

As someone said - the New World is a disaster but the Old one is no achievement-.
Personally, I don't think that any fathers let alone founding fathers like democracy, it threatens their authority and  ' God given right ' to implement the original orthodox ideas they believe they know as they see fit.
Schubert, no offence intended, but at times you do sound like a founding father. So do I.

It comes down to one's priorities. I had the choice of buying a new 2015 Corvette Z06 with the aero package or buying new speakers, preamplifier, 5 monoblock amplifiers, and new cables. I'm here posting and not the Corvette owners forums. ;)