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Originally posted by LubeMaster77
TABS - you can only be lost when you are some place that you don't want to be and do not know your way out to get back home. Americans know where they are and where they want to be, the problem is they just don't want to walk that far to get to that place. It is in plain sight like a great mountain that looks like you can touch it if you really stretched. Problem is, that great mountain is further away than you think. Always insight yet would take effort to get there.
We take movies and write books about this mountain. Some folks tell us how great the mountain is while others see that mountain and relize that it is just work to get there and more work to climb it to get to the summit.
The majority are very content in Happy Valley and really do not want to go to the mount...
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the problem is that the "valley" won't be as prosperous and safe as it has always been if we create more dis-incentive for people to climb the "mountain".
Example = movement of IPO market to UK due to Sarbanes-Oxley, movement of business out of Cali due to excessive regulation, social benefits drawing people into the country, etc.
There are always those who are willing to strive to get the next level of success, the question is, do we want them here or do we want to push them elsewhere? Having lived in Europe, I can share with some accuracy that the incentives of workers to 'excel' are muted by the protection offered those that do not wish to.
There is a price to be paid for this...