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HelpRe: Afton is a Scottish river, is it not?
in reply to a message by Ylva
I take my hat off to you, Ylva. I wouldn't know a poem in another language to save my soul. And I've studied foreign languages. Your education system puts mine (U.S.) to shame. Universal health care, child care, . . . the list goes on and on. *sigh*
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Don't praise our educational system
Praise me ;)
We don't exactly learn poems by Robert Burns in school, it is just that I'm very interested in the old literature of England and Scotland.
But I agree with the universal health care and child care. I don't quite understand why most Americans don't want this. Of course, we pay by high taxes.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
Praise me ;)
We don't exactly learn poems by Robert Burns in school, it is just that I'm very interested in the old literature of England and Scotland.
But I agree with the universal health care and child care. I don't quite understand why most Americans don't want this. Of course, we pay by high taxes.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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I think you answered your own question re: why Americans don't want this. We don't want to pay high taxes. (Well, in my opinion we already do - I just don't want them any higher!)
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*snort* That was good!
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