what is Belgium lacking from the rest of the countries in the world?

Answer 1

I live in Belgium, and am an American.

Belgium lacks the desire to help the rest of the world, unless France is also involved. (Lebanon peace forces)
Belgium lacks big expensive University tuition prices, like the US.
Belgium lacks individual ownership of guns, unless you are a member of a shooting club and totally registered by the police.
Belgium lacks big expensive hospital bills for its residents (socialized medicine!!)
Belgium lacks Cable TV annual fees (now) I get 27 channels for free.
Belgium lacks (97%) tasteless thin beer that can only be sold by bombarding the public with advertising (like Bud, Miller, and Coors).
Belgium lacks reasonably priced homes with a front yard, away from the street.
Belgium lacks enough policemen to patrol daily and stop traffic violations, break-ins, drunk drivers, drugs from Holland over the border.

Hey..need more? Just ask...
PS. NAME some famous people please, I'd like to know after 15 years here.. Eddy Wally?
PPS. BELGIUM has a national army. Some of them are keeping the peace in Lebanon right now. McDonald's restaurants are present in every major city and many other smaller cities, too.

GENERAL DE WITTE: I am familiar with ALL!! on your list. I agree with Mercyx, and the artists from 300 years ago. The rest are just average people. Just average, not famous at all.

Answer 2

famous Belgium people ( to Travis )
Adolphe sax : inventor of the saxophone ( that instrument that ex. president Clinton plays )
Pieter Bruegel, Rubens, Erasmus, Mercator pater damiaan ( father damiaan) Van Dyck : no need to explain

Eddy merckx : best cyclist ever in the world ( and certainly not Armstrong OK he did win the tour 7 times but that's everything ) Merckx = 5 times the tour, 7 x Milan - San remo ( record still unbeaten ) 3 x Paris roubaix, 5 x the giro , 2 x ronde van vlaanderen , etc. total of 525 races that he did won and a world record against the clock

Leo Baekeland : one of the people that laid the foundations of the present day plastics industry with the invention of Bakelite. In 1999 by Time magazine selected in the top 10 most important sciences men of the 20 century

Jacques Brel :( a lot better then eddy wally ) best song " ne me quitte pas "

Herge : the persone that stands behind the comic figure Tintin or kuifje

Toots Thielemans : the lovers of blue's do known his name as one of the best harmonica players of the world

Raymond Goethals : best known as the trainer of the soccer club Olympic Marseilles in 1991

Paul Janssen the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutic one of the world leading pharmaceutical company's in the world
I can can go one for a time if necessary

What's lacking in Belgium ? no idea

Answer 3

Most of all Belgium lacks a big mouth to tell what we are or do !
We have a lot of famous people but nobody knows till we tell the other about our great inventors, painters, ... .

We do help the rest of the world (without France) :
we have troops helping in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kosovo. Our troops helped already a lot in Africa (our 15th Wing with C130 is considered as one of the finest transport wings of the world, our demining troops have helped all over the world (we have a lot of practise with all the stuff that is left from WWI and II). Our navy got even a recommendation of the US navy about their skill in demining the Golf.
We fought side by side with the US in Korea (with citations by the general commander of UN troops (by the way an American), WWI and II ... but nobody knows.

Answer 4

Nothing

It has land, people, a language, a government, a national anthem, a flag, plants, animals.

The same things every other country has.

And yes Belgium DOES have famous people who come from there, despite some claiming otherwise.

Answer 5

Belgium doesn`t have a national army.

Answer 6

McDonald's that make money.