I didn't say the majority of people in the us own 8 acres. I said 8 acres is very doable for a middle class family.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
Oo is that putting words into my mouth again? I couldnt even find Arizona on a map let alone tell you what their border controls are.lowing wrote:
and let me guess, you think states like Arizona's boarder control laws are racist. right? Well it would appear simple, get rid of illegal aliens and our prison population and prison stats go down.
Id also like to point out you have labelled me as a "nanny state" socialist yet the WWII thread started because I was arguing (and this is always thin ice) that the Nazis were massively popular in Germany and a lot of their policies were very successful.
Also you are interchanging "country" and "suburbs" depending on which circumstance suits your argument at the time. You started off claiming the majority of Americans enjoy an 8 acre mansion in the country (in reality 20%) and now you are arguing about a suburban explosion? Or do the suburban properties all have 8 acres? :S
You are also comparing a European isolated country house with a US suburban neighbourhood. Of course the infrastructure costs are different. Compare apples with apples ffs.
However I fail to see how your house justifies such a high incarceration rate and such a high crime rate. I would also suggest that crime becomes a larger problem the more densely populated an area is. Therefore your high crime rate would reflect your high percentage of urban living. However you claim the opposite is true which simply does not correlate. Plus you continue to deny, in direct contradiction to all the evidence, that USA has a high crime rate and that you are likely to be a victim of crime.
As for your liberty argument, if having "freedom and liberty" means you are more than 3 times as likely to end up in prison and significantly more likely to be a victim of crime, then you can keep it. Statistically Europe enjoys a higher quality of life so perhaps you could learn something from us?
I didn't say our housing justifies prison rates. The housing shit started when I mentioned our quality of life and you all pounced on it to prove YOU have a greater quality of life.
ALready gave possible explanations to our crime rates.. One possibility being, when you all have the same shit, there is very little reason to any else who has more than you. Who wants to rob a 2 bedroom flat?