You owe me a keyboard.

JMJ

JMJ;
“The British are handling a far larger internal Muslim problem than we are, Micky. So far they’ve been very good at it. There’s no denying that.

Thats not what the unemployment rate says.
Theres plenty of room for denial jersey, dont speak for me by saying theres no denying it.
Here we go again.
you just dont get it do you?
I show links with credible sources and you start with your opinions and nothing else.
And as predictable as ever Bush has to get thrown it somwhere and blamed for something everytime.
Grow up, get an imagination. Loose the BDS already.
When you attach it anything and everything it looses its worth, for what its worth.

The Brits have a unique problem with terrorism. They are handling it well, internally. Getting involved in the GWOT was a mistake, and it has scarred Blair’s reputation ever since, and probably forever.

When you look at all the indicators, not just selective measurements os growth or expenditures and taxes, the Brits are doing quite well. A correct rate of taxes is fundamental and yet exteremly complicated formula. It isn’t always just “lower,” because that would be silly.

JMJ

Brit kids may be more astute than American kids. But they both still have the entitlement mentallity intact. Younger people tend to vote liberal or Democrat, in their case socialist (yuk yuk) Thats the last thing they eed with terrorism today and their large muslim population.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3137633.ece

The Home Office estimates between 10,000 and 15,000 British Muslims support Al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups.

Jersey says that the british muslim pop. is educated and not dragging down wages.
But the are the most unemplyed in that country, thats dangerous and makes them susceptable to frustration on many levels.

http://www.aimislam.com/forums/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=40&t=4075
Posted by: Bilaal Aug 1 2007, 01:11 PM
Unemployment rates for Muslims are higher than those for people from any other religion, for both men and women.

In 2004, Muslims had the highest male unemployment rate in Great Britain, at 13 per cent. This was about three times the rate for Christian men (4 per cent). Unemployment rates for men in the other religious groups were between 3 and 8 per cent.

As far as Brits understanding their taxes goes, so ?
That doesnt mean they like it.
And they’re going up again soon
http://in.biz.yahoo.com/071014/129/6m09q.html

Now you’ve got it!
Well, I think Blair kinda got stuck with the old British Empire immigration issue. Pakistanis and Indians have been liberally allowed to immigrate for many years, well before Blair. Actually, until the terrorism problem, these people were welcomed as skilled labor. Now, there are obvious problems with that. Terrorists, after all, are usually not poor, unskilled workers who drag down wages. They tend to be well educated. Thus this new problem.

As for British kids, they are probably more politically astute than American kids. I would think that a Britich 16 year old, on average, has more poltical accumen than an American 18 year old, in all honesty.

And from what I understand about the Brits, they’re understand of taxation is a little different than ours. Not to say that they love taxes - noone does - but I think they look at the bigger picture more than we do. That is to say, the purist “lower taxes” ideology is less prevalent in Britian.

JMJ

Blair is supposedly a staunch hawk on the GWOT. But at the same time has allowed his country to be infused with more radical islamist movements then Pakistan. (maybe not) And at the same time wants teenagers to vote. Kids today are the ones who understand radical islam the least. And as thearticle Chris mentioned , they will vote for all the freebees. As if the Brits need to be taxed any more than they already are.

Well, Micky, look at it this way: Before the terrm “neo-con” came along, they used to call pols who endorsed aggressive foreign intervention and revolutionary democratization as “neo-liberals.” Think of Blair as sort of a neo-liberal.

JMJ