Libsmasher
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Airbus has one big advantage over Boeing. Boeing is in the US, where it has to pay for employee health insurance, while Airbus is in France, where they have universal health care. Since the US cost for health care is 17% of our GDP, as opposed to France's 7%, big business can operate more cheaply there. Obviously, Airbus beat out its rival not because of "anti white racism", but because of costs. Perhaps when Obama is elected president and brings the US into the 20th. century along with the rest of the developed world (and not one minute too soon, as we're now 8 years into the 21st. century), then we can be more competitive. Until then, we'll just have to watch as the dollar continues to drop against the Euro and health care costs continue to soar.
The lib medical "21st century":
- eight month waits for MRIs as in Canada
- people refused operations such as heart transplants because some bureaucrat has decided it's not in the national health budget
- hospitals in deplorable condition as in the UK's NHS
- medical tourism, as in the UK where tens of thousands of people go to places like india, or canadians go to the US for needed surgery, because that's better than the alternative (dying).