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Islam is irrelevant to the discussion here. Migration is a separate issue from the provision of public services for existing citizens.
No. The reason you have such horrible immigration problems is you have the inefficient govt. running the country into the ground. Socialism has always failed and it is failing in Europe is the women are not having kids so you have to import people who don't like you or your country or your history to keep paying for it. It is all directly tied together.
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They do? In my time in the US, I encountered levels of poverty that just don't exist in Western Europe. The US has close to 50 million on food-stamps, and people going homeless when they get sick.
That's closer to what goes on in Nigeria than it is to the rest of the developed world.
Yes, the poor in the USA live better than the poor any where in the world. They get free cell phones for goodness sakes. The poor in the USA live better than a good % of the rest of the world.
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If 'socialism' causes all the crime, then why do socialistic EU nations have a fraction of the crime that the US does?
For example, crime is endemic in Somalia, yet their socio-political structure is the antithesis of Socialism.
The EU has a higher crime rate than the USA. And they still have not even started to fully feel the Islam take over. It is only starting to get bad there.
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The ability to 'get ahead' is defined as high social mobility. While the United States is above say, Mexico, in this ranking, it lags most of the first world.
I don't know what you mean by "social mobility". In the USA you can start out poor and end up very wealthy and it happens all the time. In socialist countries you spend 1/2 your paycheck to pay the bills and 1/2 your pay check is taken by the govt in hopes some day you get a fraction of it back. The number of people who truly move up the financial ladder in the USA v. any socialist country is night and day. As a man that is what I want. To be financially well off, not to just barely get by for 40 years.