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Old 11-02-10, 04:06 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by VipertheSniper View Post
Skipped history classes much? I tend to think the largest immigration waves to the US were well before European countries turned into "socialist nanny states" as you would most probably call it.
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Go read a history book yourself. People have been leaving Europe because they wanted to be shed of old world restrictions long before socialism ever reared it's ugly head.

I cannot see how these 2 statements contradict. The biggest immigration from the Old to the New World was in the late 19th/early 20th century. The rise of the welfare state started after WW1 - just the time the first "socialistic" country was founded.
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