On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> --- Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> And here in the last fifteen years, the post office
>> and telephone service are to be privatized.
>
> Should read "HAVE BEEN privatized". My grammar goes
> to when I'm angry
I can understand your annoyance with Americans' idealization of the EU, but I don't think you really appreciate how primitive things in the U.S. can be. You just don't have the massive numbers of people living in absolute poverty, the scores of millions without health insurance, the middle ranks constantly on the verge of impoverishment, etc. It's tempting to believe that societies that are not all that unlike ours can do a lot better than that.
Doug