On Oct 11, 5:15*am, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:
"james" wrote in message

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In message , Krypsis
writes

That country is called Switzerland. Very (hardly) any violent crime.
They never joined EU either.

can't blame them for that! Who'd want to join an "institution" that gives
free rein to migration across borders.

But like millions of wogs, I'm happy to be English. JF

Basically, this is exactly what the United States is. It's not just a name,
you know. All of the individual states were once individual political
systems of their own. Our Federal government is basically just an
infrastructure that allows all the states to share in commerce, defense and
to allow for free emigration from state to state. This is much the same as
the EU was designed to do, is it not?

Not really. Europe is vastly different from US in so many respects it
may take entire volumes just to list only some of them. To begin with-
each European state (oops,nation) had/has an established church or
religion . Linguistic and cultural history makes them quite hostile to
each other as well. Unification of the Continent has been attempted
several times in the past, but very rarely lasted more than just a
couple of years. American population has a very different set of mind-
234 years of relative political stability proves it.