Many Americans don’t travel much because of the distances involved or lack of interest in the rest of the World. It seems to me that we would be a better group of people if more of us understood that we are not the only people on the planet and there is a more civilized way to live, more art, more culture and more exposure to more liberal ideas.
And many misconceptions would be cleared up such as confusion about Single Payer or Socialized Health Care, access to public higher education and wonderful public transportation.
Also many Americans might change their mind about Green Energy after seeing the progress the Germans are making with solar power for their homes.
And they might learn from the Dutch that we don’t need an army of police to keep people from smoking pot. They might calm down about it.
Just a thought. And since American money isn’t worth much in these healthier economies, maybe the government could help subsidize this worthwhile project.
We would be better off if suburban elitist libs were required to visit downtown Detroit and see the glory of democrat run cities
Seeing first hand how other countries do things would be a dam good education.
I have been to close to twenty countries thus far, and have lived in six.
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no, let’s stay as close minded as possible.
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I love country music
Sure if your paying for the vacation
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We would be better off if suburban elitist libs were required to visit downtown Detroit and see the glory of democrat run cities
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I would love that. I’ve always wanted to travel but I never had the money
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Yes the good parts of course
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We’re already hated around the world, that would make it worse.
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I can’t afford medical insurance and sometimes I can not afford FOOD. Who do you think is going to pay for my European vacation?
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Depends where I’d have to go. Eastern Europe would require me to bring a gun along.
I’d go to Amsterdam just to smoke some weed and get laid a couple times.
Wouldn’t mind going to the UK if I was allowed to carry a sidearm. I always wanted to walk across that sidealk by Abbey Road Studios. I also always wanted to go to London.
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Not really. I have been to Europe dozens of times, and spending time there is not going improve anyone’s judgment about anything. A trip to Epcot would make more sense.
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Yes, we should all go visit Europe.
Then we would have a much better appreciation of how much greater America is and how great we have it here and what we should not do to America.
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I have traveled around the U.S. but not Europe. Many Americans would love to travel to Europe but do not have the extra money. If you make it mandatory who will pay for it? You can not require people to pay for a vacation they may not be able to afford.
If there was a way to Subsidize the educational vacation then I would be for it. I would be the first person to plan a vacation.
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Are you high. Single payer and socialized health care is horrible. Besides why would we want to travel. Just the state of Texas is bigger then all of Europe. Know your own back yard before you go into someone elses.
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I lived in Germany for 2 years. If people take anything away from visiting Europe it should be that we have it so much better in the USA. Europe will become a backward, third-world continent soon enough. Islam will see to that.
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Europe’s economy sucks right now, and there are some great travel deals.
I’ve visited a few times and I know the average people dislike their health care, think their
taxes are too high, and really live somewhat less luxuriously than average Americans.
I am planning my next trip to be Egypt with my son. He’s never been there, but he is going
scuba diving in South America before Egypt. Wreck diving! Wooohooo! I wish I could go.
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No, but we would if all Americans were required to visit Peru, Haiti, and Somalia at least once.
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Not really. The best you can get is a superficial sense of things.
Unless you force people to go into the poor districts, study the history of the country and have a study of the political turmoil that led to the current circumstances. That way people don’t come away with some shallow and stupid liberal ideology since Europe in general have been given to hundreds of years of liberal bias, which they are now thankfully trending away from.
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Been there and done that for 4 years. I traveled all over Europe and Scandinavia and all I saw and heard was people living below our poverty level. Wages were not up to ours and prices were higher than ours.
Why should government subsidize sending anyone to Europe? If you like it so damn much, move there, I’ll buy you and your family a one way ticket in FIRST CLASS!
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Just as long as all Europeans were required to visit American at least once.
We could visit every European nation, and y’all could visit all 50 of our states. I think that both sides could learn quite a bit, and I don’t mean "Now I KNOW for sure America sucks like I thought it did." Because it doesn’t.
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Only if those who proposed such a thing were taxed additionally to pay it
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Wait, what entire continent is in worse shape then we are again? Isn’t Spain pushing the green energy jobs thing, and isn’t their unemployment….like TWENTY PERCENT? Last time I checked Greece and Hungary are already completely *******. Soon all of Europe will be in the same boat, and then us if we continue this progressive Idiocy. (like yourself) You like Europe? Awesome. Go live there. I prefer freedom and the constitution. And one final thought….Do you even COMPREHEND how much solar panels cost? And you want them on every house???? Are you actually that delusional and uneducated you believe we can run this country on solar power and wind???? No one cares about art and culture. I live in America. I prefer what we have here.
Oh and I’m trying to think which country is was the was capitalistic and had the most technological advances and innovations in the last 200 years. I can’t recall the name. I think they’ve even actually had the most health care innovations as well? Weird…but you’re right, we should ALL be like Europe.
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Thank you for being a poster-boy of liberal democrats.
Do you blame this corporatist state of affairs on the Free Market?
Do you support Keynesian economics?
You actually have a nice idea; eliminate the misconceptions.
To advocate this, however, you’d be hypocritical if you *didn’t* support American schools teaching REAL Free Market ideology and economics, and allowed the misconceptions of those to continue. So I hope for all intents and purposes you would allow this.
Furthermore, if Socialized Health Care is so great, why are Canada and England trying to re-introduce the private sector? And last I checked, Green Energy is *NOT* affordable to the common man, at least, how we advocate and push it here in America.
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On a side note, I would *love* to visit England and Germany. I am quite fascinated with their cultures; I just don’t agree with them on a political and economic scale.
No because then we’d all just be the same insufferable ***** who think they’re world travelers and all knowing after a single trip to oh so different Europe. As if one week in Amsterdam makes them geniuses in foreign affairs.
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Better still live there Watch them sit for hours sipping the same cup of coffee for hours with a smug look than get behind the wheel of a car and run everyone off the road. Or go and watch whole families getting drunk together . Or walk out at night in Amsterdam and hear the crunch of discarded drug needle on the ground
See teenagers that seem angry and burned out at 16 Meet a well dressed French women and go to her flate that is so dirty you can not use the bathroom.Good idea
As an aside you sir have not been following the exchange rate have you! The Euro is down and well go much farther down I guess oil well not be sold in the euro well it pumpkinhead
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No we would not. Simple really. instead of liberals like yourself jet-setting around the world sipping latte, visit South Chicago and see how the others who vote like you live. Americans may change their mind about green energy? Most Americans are for all types of energy. Driving Route 66 in a convertable beats any train ride through the Ukraine, and why not just keep worthless American money here to gain the most value? Why Europe? Why not Mexico? Is Greece a more civilized way to live? America has plenty of culture, though you may get your hands dirty looking for it.
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The steady stream of Canadians coming down here to get health care they can’t get at home or would have to wait months for, the 5 year old son of the head of the British National Health, who died of kidney disease waiting for his turn to get treatment, the fact that in the EU mammograms are not authorized unless a woman has cancer symptoms, the quotes by members of the British National Health stating hospitals are often "overcrowded, understaffed and dirty"…..I already know everything I need to know about Single Payer or Socialized Health care. Everyone in the United States has access to public higher education – they’re called State Universities, and if you work hard enough in school you can get a scholarship. Or you can work(!) to pay for it yourself. Greece is doing so well under the wonderful European socialized lifestyle that their government had to borrow money from the EU AND the US just to stay open for business. The rest of the EU is next in line to topple. So much for that idea of "free" everything. And it’s no wonder the Europeans have so much time and money for culture and green energy – we’ve been pretty much footing the bill for their defense since WWII ended.
Since the government gets all its money from us, we’d be subsidizing our own trip to Europe; thanks, but I’d rather spend my money on other things.
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