mmm, lets think what do i have to say about this.... Democracy is great, but when dous a democracy becomes a dictatorship of the majority? Let me give you an example. Belgium a federal country with 3 states: Flanders, Brussels and the french speaking thing. Now the Flemish are 60% of pop, so they could even enslave the others. is that fair? ofcourse it isn't But hey it was voted in a democracy. Now about kapitalism, it is killing itself. It moves to low income countries to get more profit. if they move they take money away from the market they come from. you know jobless people have no cash so they cant buy anything. Becouse of lower sales the companies that stayed move or go bankrupt (or something like that) -> even less jobs -> even less money. And becouse they are not paying the people who work fore them enuf money to buy their products, they can't make an other market fore it. So they end up dead. And now something about the rich. I dont mind the rich as long as they spend their money. The problem with an economic crisis like this is that people dont buy enuf. Becouse they have no money. You can ask yourself, where has it gone? the rich have it and are not spending it. So you keep the people from having more money. And now about taxes. you complain about 33% taxes??? Lets see, here you give about 50% to the state, so you lose 50% of your income, and you need to pay extra tax at the end of the year. you pay 21% tax on goods, and god may know how much on fuel. But the good thing about the 50% tax is that it go's in social security-> people get that money, it is being spend -> money keeps roling -> keeps economy going

Well there ya go. Pay more money to let the state tell me what to do... sorry that is NOT freedom. I do not pay social security as a state police officer instead we are one of the few groups in the nation that are allowed to invest our money in retirement programs. Now rather than drawing a minimal Social Security check I will draw 90% of my highest last three years income. I pay 10% of my check into a retirement program. and the other 28-33% of my check goes to state and fedral taxes. Now if everyone did what I am doing (which would require them to get off their ass and work) they could have the same thing and we could all pay less taxes. If you like paying 50% and being at the mercy of the government more power to you.

See and the problem with the poorer third world countries is not that capitalism is exploiting them, it's that there are no jobs there in the first place. For example, think about what's gonna happen to the middle east in 100 years when the oil runs out. There will be no resources there for people to live off of. There will be extreme poverty and all that fun stuff because they are living in the middle of a desert. When capitalism moves into these areas and pays low wages for work, it should be a clue for these people that they should go somewhere else where they can get a decent job, or even just farm. Thats the main thing that people in poor countries should be doing anyway: farming. If these third world countries were more agrarian, its citizens would at least be making their own food to eat and there'd be much less poverty there. Farms and base manufacturing (clothing, equipment, etc.) are all that fledgling economies need to survive. As for places like India where farming isn't possible, MOVE! There's a billion people living in a freakin desert, why are people marveling at the poverty there? 1) They should stop having so many kids that they can't support anyway, and 2) they should go someplace like southeast asia and become rice farmers. At least then they'll have food to eat. But stop acting like capitalism is destroying the world. All its doing is delaying the inevitable, which is that overpopulation will readjust itself through poverty and sickness in inner cities, and people living in the desert for no reason will either move in order to make a decent living or die of hunger or thirst in the desert.

Well dont look yourself blind on those 50% taxes, you get most of it back. The only problem is the Matheus effect, those who have most get most. It isn't meant this way, it just always turns out like this. Rich people go to a doctor a lot-> Most of the bill is payed back by the state. The poor they dont go to the doctor that ofthen(lack of cash). So they don't profit the most from it. It is also being invested in school(best school system in the world they say) The pensions is a bigger problem. Your pensions get payed by the generation after you, it is payed by the people who are still working. Now becouse the Baby-boom generation is going to retire soon, what means a lot of old people and a lot of pensions. You have less active working people who have to pay more pensions. And now becouse we are a democracy i can see a doom scenario rising. Old get organised, vote fore a new old guys party, they have the majority so we end up working like 42 hours a day fore a crappy pay while they are sitting their ass of in the carraiben or some other exotic location. Ofcourse not everybody gets a pension of the state, the doctors and bakers and those other professions that involve starting your own company pay fore their own pensions. They get a little bit from the state, but that is not much. It may sound a bit strange but it is part of our way of life, we fought fore it, people died fore it and we are planning to keep it. And about sitting on our but, Flemish are the hardest workers in the world, we got great education and productivity. We live to work, not work to live