Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog - And the New Six-Word Motto for the U.S. Is -You ever notice that? The media makes much of our internal critics - especially in the entertainment industry, yet they seem to prefer the US, warts and all, to anywhere else. Kind of odd, isn' t it, that such a horrible country doesn't have people emigrating like crazy?Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay (194 votes)
As someone once noted - look to see how the fences are arranged. Are they keeping people IN, or OUT? The USSR, for all the people who used to promote it as a wonderous place, had its fences (along with various other things like passport controls, internal passports and such) arranged to keep the people INSIDE the Worker's Paradise.
That we're trying to keep people OUT says a lot about the US.
J.