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?

>>158 Finland doesn't consider what you call "dead weight" to be worthless. They do not exclude the poor and the unemployed from social benefits. I know for a fact that their neighbour Sweden (#3) pays people to go to school.

>>160 The US, unlike Finland, or Number 3 Sweden, does so at the expense of massive poverty (with all the related problems). Why would you want to have poor people if you could be competitive without poverty? The answer is that US capitalism demands a highly exploitable workforce, and the business elite who run the country are all too glad to provide it for them.