Are we all left-tards here?

Come on now.  Are we?  While I myself wouldn't look for bible-thumping republicans, I think we should at least have a few moderates or radicals like libertarians ETC... 

Or is it the disproportionate european population here?

>>147 wrote: "Social safety nets" ... HURT THE ECONOMY. ...a society full of bums and people that don't know how an economy works! Yeah, that's really productive!"

You are proceeding from ideology, rather than from reality. Social spending does not "hurt" the economy. Studies have shown that when people's health are cared for, when they have decent homes to live in and good education, productivity increases. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see this.

Take a look at Finland. They are number one in global competitiveness and have one of the most extensive (and expensive) social spending programs. They have free healthcare, free education (from K through graduate school), state mandated 5-week paid holidays (though the custom is for the employer to throw in another week), social housing, etc. Your beliefs do not accord with the facts.

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