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i seemed to have missed the part where you lavished us with citations. i really hate it when people go on for like 9 paragraphs without a single citation and you say something and they are like 'whats your source?! no source no truth!'

most of what you said I generally agree with (about contract workers). then you lamented with the trite: "if only we were like europe" type comment.

tbh, i want to be nothing like europe. who's economy do you lionize? Portugaul 9% ump, Ireland 6.1% ump, Greece 22% ump, Spain 17.6% ump? Even France isn't doing great. Or would you prefer to cherry pick one of the more Nordic countries like Sweden with virtually no ethnic or geographic diversity?

I'm sure Europe is great, but they are by no means an archetype of economic success. Nor is our situation anything like theirs, so this is why people get irritated by such comments.