Yes, as are you. Unless you were born a few minutes ago.
I'm also from the present, where there are unfortunately far too many people too stupid to realize the lessons of the past, and that there is no such thing as a free ride.
There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. The bus needs gas to go. And when everyone is jumping on the bus, taking up all of the seats and not helping to pay for it the guy buying the gas is going to get fed up and go buy his own car.
I take it you don't go down with the socialism? Well I would be generally pro socialism, but not full blown communism.
I think, what Europe has is the best system humans have devised so far.
We still get poor people. We still get crime. We still don't have always stable economies.
But, we have less bad stuff than anywhere else.
There is a bracket of people that will always not work, and cause crime and be a drain on the economy. Short of rounding all these people up and killing them in a morally awful fashion, the second best solution has been proven to be...
...give them a bit of help now and then so that they don't become a major issue. Does it mean that hard working people have to give them some of their earnings? Yes. Is that fair? Absolutely freaking not.
But in the long run, it ultimately benefits the taxpayer for the reasons demonstrated by Europe. The world is not fair.
Communism would be fantastic! If some only humans weren't so dependably terrible.
Capitalism is great because it relies on a very trustworthy human trait. Greed. But blind and back and white 'fair' capitalism just leads to anarchy without mediation and regulation.
It's completely wrong that some people get to free load off of hard working folks, like most people are, including those I argue against on this forum perhaps. But as long as we can keep the freeloaders to a minority, we'll get by alright.
I am Irish (thus EU). I am a college student. This is my opinion based on observation and objective analysis.
Clinics, if given their recent naming of things).
