Posted on 06/19/2013 7:03:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Switzerland is a better role model for everything...except maybe cuisine.
I’m not a huge fan of Switzerland, who have made their national identity into helping scoundrels worldwide to hide their stolen wealth. Arafat, Mugabe, Goering, Rich and thousands like them.
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So, there is NO COUNTRY in the world we can use as a role model? How about the good old US of A?
Certainly an understandable position. I figured you have to pick one of the two though.
At least the French did join in WW2. Switzerland never does anything. While I’m against nation building, you can’t just sit out of everything.
I’ve been to Switzerland. It’s pretty........pretty boring................
Ahh but do they have the right to carry? Or do they just keep them at home?
After the last few years we’ve had here, who couldn’t do with a little boring?
Switzerland is the perfect example of “Nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.”.........
They are kept in a neighborhood armory, IIRC.......
How are the people?
Did you go to multiple Cantons?
The Swiss are also famously isolationist, and they do now sign on to the vast majority of nonsense of treaty treacle that comes from the UN.
The neo-cons in the US would never allow the US to be isolationist. To them, there cannot be a moment or situation in which we should not meddle.
One thing I noticed when I got off the plane, the cops all carried Uzis, I think, and people in the airport were getting their tourist pictures of themselves standing next to them..........
The people were very nice and friendly, most helpful in directions and stuff like that. I was only in Zurich, though........
Most everybody speaks multiple languages. French, German, English and Italian are common, so you can usually find someone who speaks your tongue........
It’s a different form of German though...right?
It is one of the best times of my life, much like living in Disneyland for a young country boy.
I have great respect for the Swiss. They are a clean, conservative, hard working, law abiding people. Their country is beautiful & they work hard to keep it that way.
I admire their national neutrality & prior respect for the privacy of those who invest there. I am saddened that they have ended that privacy, giving in to world corruptocracy & the nanny state taxation thieves.
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