Re:No surprise... (Score 1)

Without commenting on your point - I'd lke to say that I've worked for a Dutch company and known many Dutch people who have fled the Netherlands. One very intersting comment to me by an engineer living in Florida on why he left... "once you have freedom you never go back". Two of my young Dutch friends never went back - even on vacation or to visit family. They literally hated Holland. It's always easy to think there are better places, but I've been around the world a lot and the United States is the best place in the world. Ask the waiter I met in a Cuban restaurant who survived riding an inner tube from Cuba (his 2 friends died at sea) trying to get TO the U.S. It always amuses me when people use the moral equivalence argument to compare the U.S. to Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union.. blah .. blah .. See the worst in everything - ignore the best. my advice: by all means leave this country and go to paradise in Canada/Holland or wherever - after all, it's easier to run away than to work to make things better. idea: maybe you could take the Cuban waiter's place..? There are millions of people in the world who would love to take your place. but - you won't go.. you're all talk.