Perhaps this is just a clearing of the fields…a cleansing of mediocrity, stagnancy…the bottom line is that the Brits do not feel enough is being done.

I don’t know if they realize they have the ability to turn things around. They are having a huge temper tantrum, of this I do know.

What the Republicans (and the Dems to some extent) have been doing is cutting out areas where large numbers of people are employed. So, when we need to grow employment and may need to infuse the workplace with jobs, instead, the government is managing to cancel thing after thing that will employ people. So our unemployment grows, people have less to spend, businesses shrink, more people get laid off, further shrinking the public buying power, further shrinking businesses and manufacturing, causing more layoffs and round and round we go, where we stop, nobody knows and God help us because the government sure as hell won’t. However, they’re sitting in Washington with their huge salaries and health insurance, life insurance, retirement benefits, etc., etc., all out of the public coffers while the economy rots from the inside. Oh, and executives and pharmaceutical companies, wall street gurus and a few others hoard the bread they’ve stolen out of the mouths of the populace.

Frankly, I like seeing some of these European countries approach critical mass with their experiments. We can learn from their successes and failures

I sorta jumped from A to D without explaining B and C steps.

It all sucks.

Britain is a Capitalist country with some socialist programs. More than we have I believe.

You are the one that wrote the tear jerker above about the poor discouraged British youths who have nothing to look forward to beyond welfare and supplied social services. Maybe those kids are pissed because the British government is having a capitalist moment.

Please spare me the long post explaining what you really meant

As to whether socialism is better, one needs to ask, “compared to what?”