September 10, 2008
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More Choice
At some level, I am tired of my choices for president this time around.
I want another Choice.
I don’t trust McCain.
Obama might be ready in about 12years (But I don’t believe in wealth redistribution remotely as much as he) I can post on Communism and Socialism and why they don’t work some time, but not right now.I still want a country with a decidedly representative democracy such as ours.
I still want a country that has a constitution such as ours.
I still want a country that has English as its primary language (sorry, I speak some Spanish, French, Italian, and German) but I don’t want either as my primary language.
I want a place where I can experience the wonderful outdoors as various as I have across America.But, I want a place where the most important choice – of who is to be the leader of the country – to be more than LEFT or RIGHT. (or rather Left or farther left).
What I want is a place that has something like 7 viable healthy political parties.
What I want is a place that has a vibrant political system where people actually care about the issues and just don’t live apathetically for someone else to do the work.I wonder if there ever is such a place…
Comments (7)
i can’t wait to go there.
i’m in complete agreement with your position on the candidates.
post more!
Down Under is very nice, but the Swiss have an equally good system. America! One more choice than the Soviet Union!
@navigatio,
- Did you actually read the post? it was short. In it I list all of the reasons Why Auz is my choice.
Towit: Here’w why Switzerland isn’t the choice.
I said:still want a country with a decidedly representative democracy such as ours.
— I’ve actually been to both countries and The Confederation Helvetica is decidedly more socialistic than Austrailia.
— Even though it claims a “direct democracy”. I Don’t want a direct democracy anyway, I might post on the differences some day.
I said:I still want a country that has a constitution such as ours.
— although both contries constitutions are based off of ours, the only one that’s stayed based off of ours is Austrailia. Switzerland just revisited theirs anew in 2000. And they will keep revisiting it over and over and over again (if their history is any indicator). I prefer a country where I know what my constitution says instead of relearning the new constitution ever 20-30 years or so.
I said:I still want a country that has English as its primary language
- English IS NOT switerland’s primary language – they speak French or German (swiss versions of both)(and they speak English by default due to it being the international language of buisness)
I said: I want a place where I can experience the wonderful outdoors as various as I have across the U.S.
- Although the Confederation Helvetical is absolutely gorgeous (especially from the top of Chomenix/Mt. Blanc – or the banks of Lake Geneva), they don’t have the breadth of outdoor options that both the states and Australia do. Not many scuba options off the coastline of Switzerland.
additionally:
- Cost of living – Switzerland has a more expensive cost of living b y far. could be because of all of their socialist decisions???
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@WyomingSheepRanch -
ahh, thank you. Sooner or later I must understand these computchamgadgits!
@Navigatio -
my apologies for not understanding the technology – I’ve been informed that if I actually wanted you to read my response that I needed to click on the correct button. So, hopefully you’ll come back and read what I wrote?
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I’m just saying Switzerland would be my choice. For they have much tougher immigration standards, the whole nation is an army, it’s German, and I prefer hockey to kangaroos.
The United States has done quite some amending to it’s Constitution. Actually we don’t even do it through the amendment process anymore. We have the Supreme Court declare new rights every five years or so, Abortion, health care, burning Old Glory, freedom from religion, etc, etc. At least the Swiss put in writing and still go through the legal process of amending and or reversing previous changes. The Founders were never against changing the Constitution that’s why the included such a process. It was needless change they feared, the very change most Western, liberal states now practice.
I’m not a stickler for language. English works for me, but moving to a country of French, German, and English for business wouldn’t bother me. I’m not learning Russian that’s for sure, that’s just a crap alphabet.
Nature. Not high on my list. I can live in desert or Med climate just as easy as Alps or Midwestern farmland.
I think the cost of living with the Swiss has more to do with limited land, being the wealthiest country in the world, and simply living on such a crowded patch of Continent. The US is far more socialist in ways than the ‘nice Germans’.
I like the Aussies, esp their women, but they really need to push their country closer to the rest of the world. That jet lag is a crime. Plus their legislative building is in modern architectural style, never good. They are also in the process of severing their last links with the British crown, and have recently elected Socialists. The Swiss meanwhile put “far” right wingers in power and want the non-conforming immigrants booted out. The Swiss are acting like the Aussies of old. Which bids well for their future, while the Aussies follow our lead. Never a good sign.