Show nm n United United- Socialist States of America Darren Knott Columnist T r recen recently e c e n t l y j t I t ii j jf ja 1 listened to toa il f A 9 a news program pro pro- ik gram that was t telling about x l n how deficient Americans are in language The point of the program was that a very small percentage percent percent- age of Americans can speak a second language and that the majority of Europeans can speak at least one other lan Ian guage I find the rising number number num num- r- r b ber r of these comparisons dis dis- But even more disturbing disturbing disturbing dis dis- I feel is the motivation motivation motivation tion behind the comparisons It seems that the effort to socialize the USA U.S.A. has taken takena a new and more subtle track The hearts and minds of the American people are are trying to be won instead of being bludgeoned with new laws and taxes The new technique the socialists are using is comparing the US U.S. with so socialized Europe My first comparison was an example example example ex ex- ample of one of these comparisons comparisons comparisons com com- a fairly harmless one but it shows what is going on If one really looks at the example and thinks about the differences between America and Europe the comparisons comparisons comparisons com- com become quite ludicrous The most glaring difference is the geography If I started driving right now it would take me approximately 17 hours to drive to a country where another language is spoken On the other hand in central Europe if I drove for 17 hours I could cross three or four countries that speak different languages Thus speaking several languages languages languages lan lan- becomes a necessity As I said before re the language language language lan lan- guage comparison is a fairly harmless harmless' example The examples examples examples ex ex- amples that worry me however how how- however however how how- ever a are e the comparisons on abortion gun control crime social problems and the myriad other problems that face our country A favorite comparison of the socialists is comparing the United States with Europe on gun control The story always goes like this Europe doesn't allow its citizens to have guns therefore therefore therefore there there- fore its crime rate is lower This comparison also doesn't stand up to scrutiny These European countries dont don't have the right to keep and bear arms written into their constitution Of course their leaders arent aren't going to let them have guns Socialism has been a total flop Even the socialists socialist's darling darling darling dar dar- ling Sweden is showing signs of falling apart It continually continual continual- ly amazes me that politicians perpetuate a system that has been proven to be a failure So before you start feeling bad about yourself because of so called experts who tell how us dumb immoral and greedy we are just remember where its it's coming from |