It's easy to call Americans stupid...

Matt8townsend wrote:

Mmmm, thank you for the insightful discetion of the state of my countries education system.

Like the vast majority of Britains's state sponsored instituations, our education system took a severe beating during 18 years of Conservative misgovernance (but escaped in far better shape than the battered and underfunded NHS). These problems have been gradually (and I do mean very gradually) easing courtesy of the increased funding provided by Blair's Labour government (whom I am by no means a supporter of but who are legitimately investing great effort and money in re-establishing a world class education sytem) and a remarkable period of sustained economic growth under Gordon Brown's stewardship, made all the more impressive for the fact that the strongest economies in the rest of the Western world have suffered acute recessions from which Britain had been able to remain immune (the United States under the inept fumblings of its current theocracy, and Germany under a contrastingly central left alliance to name but two examples).

Contrary to somebody elses post somehere in this thread, a job in America is not worth more money than anywhere else, as the last time I visited the states or checked the exchange rates the pound was in by far the ascendent position.

As for your anti-immigrationist point (do you import the Daily Mail?), Britain makes a net profit on its annual GDP from it's relatively open immigration policy - an economic fact that beguiles more than enough xenophobes on our own little island without us having to suffer the irritance of you chipping in. And more of these immigrants are intrinsically linked to the welfare state by being employed within it than they are by being 'propped up' by taking handouts from it. The vast numbers of immigrants who are employed within the NHS (from cleaners to neurologists) has been essential in the preservation of what in my opinion is one of our proudest and most admirable institutaions.

And this post comes from somebody who is a natural opponent of both Tony Blair and the very concept of patriotism in general. But perhaps when you start to eduacte your own poor (beyond peddling the myth of creationism, the oath of alliegance and the boundless opportunites of being sacrificed to the armed forces that is) and provide adequate and affordable medical treatment to your own citizens you can start to lecture us Brits on how best to run our own affairs. And if you're from Texas, I'm sure Blair for one would be more than happy to listen.

CorporateWhore wrote:

But a job in America is worth more money than anywhere else.