Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
Many chuckles.

I have always loved that kind of dry brit humor on things.


Gelcube, the context you are missing is almost impossible to "get" unless you watch BBC for a while. Their interviewers ask questions, sometimes tough questions, but they don't spend their time articulating their own views or pushing for the "correct" answer. The Brits actually still have some sense of impartiality in their reportage -- though Murdoch is working to bring them in line with us. Perhaps we here in the USA can pick up the page 3 tradition as well -- solely as a gesture of support for the special relationship of course.
We have laws about it - which is why I mocked Sarmation a couple of pages ago for saying all interviews are scripted.

Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
I'm not an isolationist, I just don't think its right that we spend absurd amounts of tax payer dollars to protect countries with a higher standard of living because they don't have to pay their fair share of the defense bill.
You're an isolationist.

We spend about as much, or less, on social care as the US - the difference is that instead of taxing your citizens you just make them pay for it.

I don't have health insurance.