Lewis Black rant on the economic meltdown, government

Lewis Black rant on the economic meltdown, government

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[jrwilson98]

We could do away with AMTRAK, except that AMTRAK serviced 28.7 Million passengers in 2008. No private company wants to run a train passenger service, because there is no profit in it. AMTRAK is obviously a needed service regardless of the cost. 

[squamish4244]

And final point...no, not everyone wants to come to the United States. I don't see anyone else in a First World nation making a mad dash for the borders of the self-proclaimed "greatest country on earth".

[RichardAndewSwayne]

@squamish4244 Ture I would never move to the US. Everyone seems to get shot there, and the lack of healthcare.

[Frallon]

Well spoken. People here are so afraid of government run systems. But really what needs to be addressed is running one for a profit, and if not, then just knowing how to fucking run it well. It's no different than any other system. Except the government is backing it.

[CaptainRidley]

@jrwilson98 Amtrak kicks ass

[fowzie777]

first of all...get over yourselves...not everyone wants to come to your increasingly backwater police state...and the ones that do want to come to your country want to come because your country has BOMBED THE SHIT out of their country and there's nothing left there...

[thegreatbungholio21]

@FatRakoon I'm American and I agree although I wouldn't call it just "ignorance", but an arrogant ignorance. Some of us are proud and don't even know why.

I have several European friends and none of them are even slightly interested in coming to visit the US. Alos, the friends I do have who live here and are from foreign lands tell me the INS interrogates them like they are potential terrorists and that they aren't welcome.

[FatRakoon]

@JibForce9

I never said that. But I am sick of the whining of Americans who seem to think their country is so great that everyone wants to go there, when the facts show thats simply not the case.

The US is all the way over there, nice and safe, and all you have is the mexican and the cubans coming over.

We have hundreds of thousands from hundreds of other countriers in the middle east and the eastern block. The number of immigrants that you get is tiny compared to us scale wise.

[emmyjo720]

@wolfgange63 I heard an interview with a female paramedic who was having her hours cut, which made childcare tougher, the Tory MP said it was counter productive that this woman should earning money paid by the tax payer to pay for child care. This woman had done, the right things, she is a single mother with a job, that saves lifes. Many of the job cuts are affecting women more than men and woman are having the hardest time getting jobs. Yet they harrass single mothers for not working too.

[wolfgange63]

@emmyjo720 Wow... I didn't know that part of it. Thanks... I will have to look into that. Government knows best! LOL... so they think!

[emmyjo720]

@wolfgange63 It is now the same in UK...Our governments have been a succession of Eton/Oxford educated lawyers, all basically the same...They are attacking the Public Sector which is putting alot of women out of work.

They want women at home, rather than paying them to do a job, even if they save lifes and work as a paramedic.

[FatRakoon]

The ignorance with Americans is that they often assume that EVERYONE wants to go to the US.

Yes, of course apart from the hundreds of milliosn who want to go to the UK, Franec, Germany, Spain, Sweden, norway, Denmark, Finland, Fucking timbuktu!

No, seriously America. Dont flatter yourselves,people just want to leave their own countries and go anywhere else. We are a lot closer so we get a lot more than you do. You only have the mexicans, we have the entire middle east and the eastern block