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DonFerrari said:
FragilE^ said:

Guess how many big corporations we have in (tax loving) Sweden. Did you guess zero? Good job :)

Companies in Brazil try their hardest to survive in our tax loving, return hating country, and we still have big corporations, but far less than countries were being a businessman isn't looked as something evil.

SpokenTruth said:

In the US, the major regions do not correspond exactly to the directional terminology they represent.  See the map linked below:
http://thomaslegion.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/map_of_usa_regions_by_us_census_bureau.jpg

It gets confusing to foreigners.  Hell, it's confusing to many of us.  It's all based on what the regions were called as the US was growing (read: stealing land) rather than how it is now.  Nobody here would say California (especially not as far north as San Fransisco and San Jose) was part of the south.

I see, my bad. I stand corrected on the internal division, but on the unions concentration I stand that it's almost certain that unions go after richier regions to demand more money than they create value themselves.

Final-Fan said:
DonFerrari, you betray your ignorance of American culture. When people talk about the American South, they don't mean west of Texas. Think more like the old Confederacy.

I guess I have a little better understanding of USA geography (and perhaps culture) than you have from Brazil, so I'm not betraying I'm exposing. But geographically speaking California is in the south half of the country, or southwest of the country. I have no fault that besides using imperial measurement system you also can't use a compass.

That is pretty much what I meant by "betray".  It's a less-popular usage so I guess I could have been more careful with a guy who didn't have English as his first language. 

Your theory about unions doesn't match how they were first created.  Also, wouldn't unions tend to go after the highest earning people in that case instead of the working class (or with equal enthusiasm)? 



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