DB Poll: Where is life better - in the AU or the USE?

Where do you think is life better?

  • In the American Union.

    Votes: 7 50.0%
  • In the United States of Europe.

    Votes: 7 50.0%

  • Total voters
    14
(sorry Eladrimstar for stealing this, but I just couldn't resist)

Many American nations are higher on the scales when it comes to easier life. People in the AU live longer, are individually richer (or at least less in debt), have more free time, are less likely to kill each other (which astounds me, as that seemed the focus in the first half of the last century), less likely to suddenly lynch me (see the last part of my sig.), and are just better, pretty much. For the price of nothing more than higher taxes.

And yet, whenever my fellow Europeans are told this, they immediately, despite facts to the contrary, claim the US is the best country in the world to live.

If, in the next few decades, Europe doesn't shape up and be more America-like, I'm moving to Miami or New York or Rio de Janeiro. Assuming none of those are underwater.
 
The USEs focus on individual rights is quite appealing but the teocratic tendencies are scary.
 
Oh, please, guys. If the AU were actually pulling its weight in defense and security they'd be hard-pressed to afford their precious universal health care and pensions. The troop presence in Africa and Asia, administrating the territories, and running the navy costs a lot of money every year, you know?
 
:rolleyes: Why bother with a huge standing army? In case you didn't notice, the AU has no borders with anyone else; we're all of the continent combined. All we need is a strong navy (which we do) and the lift capacity to transport troops wherever needed (which we can beat the USE at, which is so dependent on rails in Europe and Africa to move), and we have plenty of time to build a major army out of our professional core beyond the reach of everyone else. Not that anyone could really break the nuclear deterrent.

Besides, we do more peace keeping in Asia and Russia than the USE.
 
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