Did anyone watch 20/20?

What have they done for Ron Paul?

Did they ever air the John Stossel report on Ron Paul?

Does 20/20 encourage couch potato status quo acceptance, or do they encourage critical thinking and political activism?

Screw 20/20.

Those countries are non-interventionalist. They don't interfere in other people's affairs, and apparently there's a ton of money left over for social programs.

They are priming us for what they are planning...
http://finance.yahoo.com/...
quote from article:
"A new study finds that when it comes to financial success, you're better off being a moderately happy person rather than someone who's chronically ecstatic."

read: gee,if i want to be 'rich',i'll have to sacrifice happiness. This was an article posted on yahoo today.
btw: last week,they had an article 'sadness makes people willing to spend more'. Followed by one a few days later 'There is value in being sad'...or something like that.
Temporary boons to the economy strategy,maybe?
or should i say the 'consumer-y'?

Anyone ever read George Orwell's "1984"? This is right out of that book.

USA is not small and definitely not homogeneous.

They neglected to say that underneath appearances, Singapore has a class structure that make foreigners pay for the residents. A local will pay 150month rent and a foreigner 4,500 for the same unit. Nobody has right of anything but it is all a privilege. Want to drive? Last time I was there you got a 20 year mortgage to buy that privilege, at that time it was 85,000 USD for a driving license. Classic "Neo fascism" at work.

Scandinavians are very Homogeneous and a socialist state, opposite from the Neo fascism, it is "Neo socialism".

This was more brain washing of the voters, since they can not see through the show and logically think through.

Message, it is OK for the State to controll my life to be happy.
It is OK to pay high taxes for that benefit and it will make me happy.

The thing about Singapore is that it has ZERO natural disasters and it's a city that's in touch with nature (beautiful greenery everywhere) . It also has really nice warm and sunny weather. There is some forms of socialism but it is 2nd on the list of most economically free places in the world. If 20/20 gave "strict rules" as an excuse than they are clueless. Singapore has a lot of prostitution and there's a lot of drinking that goes on there. The people do seem very happy but I tend to think it's just a clean and safe city and they know it... BUT so is Tokyo and Tokyo people are extremely unhappy people so who knows. It sounds like 20/20 didn't really do any bottom up analysis for the show.

Pretty sneaky, here it is primary elections and we get a show from big brother telling us how happy people are in denmark and singapore when you give them all your money pay them more and how caning or whipping someone with a bamboo cane as government mandate for disobedience makes others so happy..........what is wrong with us.

I live in Singapore. I can tell you that on the surface, everything is beautiful and well ordered. But scratch the surface and talk to a few old timers and they will tell you that the ordinary person is struggling. And there was more than a little bit of Gestapo tactics in the early days.

Right now, the middle class is being squeezed, just like in the U.S And much of the labor is performed by foreigners. BUT the government here is rich and does provide services to a lot of people. Granted they have to heavily subsidize housing and other services to make up for market distortions they introduce, but because the country only has 4 million people and there is monopoly control on power, the whole place can basically be run like a giant corporation. So its a mixed bag here in Singapore. But I'm starting to discover that the ideas of freedom and liberty are welcome here. We have a RP meetup group newly formed and I'm surprised by how at least a few locals are following the campaign.

Ron Paul's message of Liberty truly is Global!! this is why we must persevere.

Those countries are small and homogeneous. A national government such as exists in those countries doesn't work in a large, multicultural country like the US. The beauty of the United States of America, theoretically, is that you can have different levels of state taxes and laws in different states and people can chose which type of government they prefer, but the federal government is restrained by the US Constitution in order to perform selected, limited duties. However, states cannot do things that are unconstitutional under the US Constitution. This is the type of government structure that constitutionalists like Ron Paul advocate and would like to return to.

The report had a socialist bent. They talked about the wonders of Denmark's high taxation and welfare system, but they didn't make it clear that Singapore is capitalist. It's more capitalist than the U.S., as it ranks #2 in the Index of Economic Freedom, only behind Hong Kong. It has less welfarism than the U.S., lower income rates, and no minimum wage.

Instead they tried to say the people being caned were happy, then picked one wealthy entrepreneur in Singapore and tried to say that she was unhappy because of her competitive spirit. It was clearly a biased report.

Often you'll hear such reports -- Sure the Danish are happy --AGAIN, if you ask the right people. I wonder if the *high* percentage of Muslims were included. REM: Those cartoons?

Anyway, all of this needs to be taken into context as it's easy to pick a few places in Europe and come out with good stats. Try going down to the south of Portugal, Spain, Greece, etc. and seeing how people feel? Many are awaiting the next EL GORDO lotto to hit.

I've traveled the world and there's no place like home. (zip: 43210!) Anyway, my biggest worry is that the very people living in the USA don't realize how special it is. I hope a lot of you will wake up... Historically, the *idea* of America, the Bill of Rights down to the Constitution are seldom allowed. Indeed it's very special and everything must be done to protect it.

Rich Sage
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You are forgetting about the one Denmark lady that said she , "this happiness thing is a lot of F---ing rubbish in Denmark"...LOL

Looks like she may have been folowing the Ron Paul campaign lately.

That's why. They showed all the Aryan looking people of Denmark. Lean bodies and beautiful with blonde flowing hair all rating their happiness 9 and above. They don't even have to lock their bikes up, they leave their children outside of coffee houses in carriages unattended...it was quite Utopian. Kind of like the blonde happy people the Morlocks were keeping for food in the "Time Machine" (original version)

I saw that trash too.
I asked the person I was watching it with if that appealed to them? "Nope" was the response I got (which I agreed).
It was such obvious propaganda! See how happy you can be when the gov does all your thinking for you! (oh, yeah! wouldn't it be great if everyone was white?)

And WTF? they just leave their babies outside in the street while they shop!

in the fan faster than you think. They want us to get conditioned to this kinda stuff.

would want to rebut that!

what people fail to understand is that Socialism, with so much of the people's money (and power) going to the government, sets the stage for fascism ... not to mention how it makes people totally dependent on the government and unable to survive without govt, even if it becomes a dictatorship

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I don't understand how the media can clearly form mour views for us - and people still don't realize it.

They do say "ignorance is bliss". Look at how jaded and unhappy many of us have become now that our eyes are open.