# anyone paying attention to the economy going down the fucking shitter?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-paying-attention-to-the-economy-going-down-the-fucking-shitter/194987 "2008-01-23T06:11:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-paying-attention-to-the-economy-going-down-the-fucking-shitter/194987/122 "2008-01-25T13:53:02Z")

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> [@WTH: Overnight cleaning person](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wth-overnight-cleaning-person/34566/2):
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> Name one? You can’t own a hangun in Britain. You also will be persecuted and incarcerated if you choose to defend your life or your families lives against violent criminals. You can’t disseminate political opinions that aren’t approved by the national government in France or Germany- doing so will result in incarceration. In Canada most of your income is taken by the government (and you can’t own a handgun here either). In Italy, the economy is constantly cripped because the government’s socialist control of society and utter empowerment of labor unions results in total stagnation. You can’t own a gun there either.
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> …and these are the “free” nations…I’ve yet to comment on the Russian Federation, China, and the other not-so-free industrialized countries.

ok. There are a few other countries out there other than the big European countries. 🤣

> There are a small, small handful of countries that enjoy higher standards of living. I personally will not trade freedom for 2 extra years added to the end stage of my life. “Stronger economy” is a statement that needs defined; clearly, the American economy is the most dominant and influential national economy on a global scale, so using that as our criteria, I can’t identify a nation whose economy is stronger.

We have an extremely rich upper 10%. This means very little to everyone else in the country. :dunno:

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