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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 84968" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Competition: fair/unfairI&#039;m shocked... gambling in Casablanca...Far too many Americans are not even aware of what is going on here. A very old and very true joke, is that it takes wars for Americans to learn geography, while that doesn&#039;t even educate many. There has long been minority elements in America that look at Europe as an ideal model to emulate, with even more extreme elements favoring communism. For the last several years there has been an active debate between larger federal government and smaller. I&#039;m not sure europeans fully understand that in their own context. The US is a fairly large country, so the tension between federal and state/local power would be like Every European country turning over full or more power to a central EU authority. It is obvious from a distance that the EU is struggling with attempts to consolidate just some of the functions of a single central government to represent every nations interests.&nbsp;&nbsp; Simultaneously we have a related discussion about what is the role of government, while this isn&#039;t new.&nbsp; News, especially TV news is horribly challenged by the format, to only present a tiny fraction of any days actual news, and the constraints of video means manufactured photo opportunities will end up on screen preferentially.&nbsp; A cute kitten, or man bites dog, story can easily displace far more important news.Anecdotal exchanges on the internet can inform you about personal opinions but be careful about extrapolating to a 300 million general population from a tiny sample of web weenies.&nbsp; JRPS: Some Americans can&#039;t even spel Cyprus correctly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 84968, member: 126"] Re: Competition: fair/unfair I'm shocked... gambling in Casablanca... Far too many Americans are not even aware of what is going on here. A very old and very true joke, is that it takes wars for Americans to learn geography, while that doesn't even educate many. There has long been minority elements in America that look at Europe as an ideal model to emulate, with even more extreme elements favoring communism. For the last several years there has been an active debate between larger federal government and smaller. I'm not sure europeans fully understand that in their own context. The US is a fairly large country, so the tension between federal and state/local power would be like Every European country turning over full or more power to a central EU authority. It is obvious from a distance that the EU is struggling with attempts to consolidate just some of the functions of a single central government to represent every nations interests. Simultaneously we have a related discussion about what is the role of government, while this isn't new. News, especially TV news is horribly challenged by the format, to only present a tiny fraction of any days actual news, and the constraints of video means manufactured photo opportunities will end up on screen preferentially. A cute kitten, or man bites dog, story can easily displace far more important news. Anecdotal exchanges on the internet can inform you about personal opinions but be careful about extrapolating to a 300 million general population from a tiny sample of web weenies. JR PS: Some Americans can't even spel Cyprus correctly. [/QUOTE]

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