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DoctorBug | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 This sounds like a tribal organisation. So you want to organize the country as it was when natives were ruling it ?

My experience in France is that everything very big we achieved was made possible thanks to the gouvernement and public money:

- highways and roads (very good and dense ones)
- health care (one of the best un the world)
- TGV
- nuclear power plans and bombs
- aerospatial (Airbus, Ariane)

Today, things are not so good because this global effort has been jeopardized by privatisation of public services, lead by the financial system (privatisation of profits, socialisation of losses).
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Dan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Has to be a troll account 😂
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DoctorBug | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 🤣 I'm a communist troll...

 Seriously, not everybody has the same life experience. I'm 54 and I experienced the benefits of living in a country where taxes are high, but also life quality. I think the balance is not so bad.
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Hans Karlsborn | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sure commie
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DoctorBug | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm not. I valuate private property, even if I think it is no it always the best way to go depending on the case. 

 When it comes to things essential to a society and requiring huge investments (health, energy, transportations & communication infrastructures) it sometimes works better and is cheaper when things are managed as common goods.

You have a different opinion, I respect it, you don't have to be gross