I congratulate you for your Tech Award and for your other blog post in which you enlightened the readers a bit about what “nano” is all about. This post, however, shows that you are slightly ignorant when it comes to politics.
As for German and US social security systems and their reforms, these are hardly compareable matters. The german social security system is quasi-socialist and there weas really no way around reforming it to give people incentives to work again. The US social security, on the other hand, is quasi-ultra-liberal and there is really no way around making it a bit more equitable…
As for US politicians discussing US-internal-topics in a shameful way on world stage, it is really the best thing they can do. As in their discussion arenas at home everything is black or white, good or evil, for or against us, etc., it may be quite useful for US politicians to disscuss “their” (and in the case of foreign policy also other people’s) topics with an in front of an international audience. This is likely to result in more a sophisticated and differeciated debate.

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According to RoguePlanet, Sharon Stone interrupted the World Economic Forum to raise money for the fight against malaria in Africa.

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