Republican Election Fiasco

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[Ed Hudgins]

Europe is falling apart because of their national socialist policies. See this on France:
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-43-1665-France_Labors_at_Folly.aspx

[LiveFree99]

But the candidate will be even more leftwing than GWB.

Have you seen the support on some threads for Guiliani in 2008? Some Freepers believe that they have to go with a liberal because he's the only one who can beat Shrillary.

Right now it's not looking too good for the 2008 Presidential election.

[Vicomte13]

The French economy is actually doing pretty well, on track to a 2+% growth rate this year. Unemployment in France is at its lowest in 5 years (8.8%, and seems to be headed further downwards). And the Frenchsubsidies for babies is really paying off: France has the highest birthrate of the major countries in Europe, and will be the most populous EU nation by mid-century.

Much of the gloom-and-doom that comes out of America about France is driven by ideology: economic conservatives in America AWNT France to fail; they have a vested philosophical interest in the failure of the French system. But France is no failing. There are certainly social problems, notably with the Arabs. But then, there are 20,000 murders a year in the United States, and this is not viewed by Americans as proof that the United States is collapsing.

The truth is that France isn't imploding. She is growing, and will continue to do so. Which means that the French economic model is no "failure", ready to be scrapped by the French when they "wise up". The French and the Americans will continue to follow their separate courses, with the permanent differences between them such as are wiorught by two very different cultures. One place that America is destined to converge with France is the relatively near future uis universal Medicare insurance. American businesses are buckling under the strain of health insurance costs, and the cost-shifting to employees is becoming so dramatic that employees will be seeking a political solution along wityh their employers. The logical, most economically efficient solution is a single-payer not-for-profit insurance system with private co-pays and gap insurance. That already is the American Medicare system, and the French Medicare system too. The difference between the two system is that American Medicare starts at age 63 and covers retirees, but French Medicare starts at (or before) conception and covers everybody. The French do it a lot cheaper per capita by having everyone in the system.
America is headed that way.