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Yeah, but remember, their taxes are so low that businesses can afford to pay their employees so much that most Anericans are actually incredibly wealthy. Just go out on the street and ask any American.
...not that guy... not that guy either... or that guy.... that guy doesn't count... no not that guy either...
Unironic all my friends with their washed brains argument in favor of united states...
"but they got even more money than us working on mcdonalds duh"
If you don't mind me asking, which country?
Brazil, mostra of people have be exposed to u.s. propaganda since the childhood, I myself was a bit like that until i start the law school.
Academic knowledge and meeting a lot of people from out of my circles really expanded my horizons and my POVs on the world, i'm really greatful for this
Thank you for sharing. Always disappointing to see how we've managed to not only make our country worse, but somehow persuade other people into wanting to make their countries worse.
Our economic policy is ruining us and I hope all other countries can at least learn from our bad example. You don't want what we have, I promise.
Good luck in law school or as a lawyer. The world needs more good people in law and politics.
The US propaganda reaches far
I know people in Australia and New Zealand who think America is great, because they think they'd be allowed to shoot people whenever they feel like it, and they're inevitably racist as fuck
Feel free to pick any I think. That is something I have heard in Sweden from idiots.
Yeah, but remember, their taxes are so low that businesses can afford to pay their employees so much that most Anericans are actually incredibly wealthy.
That's the theory for "trickle down" economics, but in reality it's piss trickling down.
Nonsense, there's shit mixed in as well.
What about raising the tax so that increased pay for the employees increases the amount of deductibles for the company which in turn reduces the actual tax they have to pay?
Has that ever been tried before?
Maybe some decades ago?
...before Reagan?
Good luck trying to explain that to a conservative
Nah, I'd rather explain it to a brick wall, which is less stubborn and won't shoot me, because I challenge some beliefs.
Sounds communist to me
/s
They dont want lower taxes. They want record profits and no taxes.
They want the power to do whatever they will while enjoying the protections of the publicly funded state against anyone who might try to stop them.
And for the most part they get it. But their power isn't total yet. We still have a window of possibility.
Boeing charges the Pentagon 3750$ for 15$ ball bearings. Grandmas got to die to pay out the socialized private profits for the military industrial complex.
An 81-year old grandmother began posting Minecraft videos....
Awww, that's cute
to fund her grandson's cancer treatment
There's the American hopeful story.
I work for a nonprofit hospital, and and have full medical insurance through them. I had injured my knees recently so I went to a PCP to get the ball rolling. These are the steps insurance requires before they'll even consider the next step, let alone getting to actual surgery...
Go to PCP so they could write me a referral to an Ortho doc
Go to Ortho doc, who writes me an order for an XRay
Get X-Ray, they don't find anything but this gets me a referral to PT. (I got a call from a local PT group, who later said that my insurance doesn't cover them, but if I wanted to pay out of pocket it'd be about $250 for a group of 5 sessions. I thought I'd be better off going through work.)
I get scheduled for a few PT visits and my Health System Rehab facility. It was most conducted by Kins students. I did the exercises with the bands, no improvement with my knees whatsoever and even when doing the stair exercises and hurting my knee in the process they had zero clue what it could be. I increased range of motion with my leg but that's it. Cancel further visits.
Go back to my PCP, orders an MRI. According to it, everything is intact but the injury could have stressed things. Still can't tell exactly what's wrong.
End up getting a steroid shot in both knees, which helped for about 3 months.
All those completely wiped out 2 years worth of FSA, and the only way I didn't get slammed with a couple thousand dollars out of pocket is I still have an HSA from a previous job. Also found out it was more expensive for insurance to pay the rehab clinic that I work for than it would have been to pay out of pocket at a local place
Welcome to American Healthcare. Where the people who voted themselves to get top notch, taxpayer funded, lifetime healthcare for them and their families, then vote themselves to not having to pay taxes again...that also say govt funded healthcare is sOcIaLiSm
Sounds about right. Think how many trained medical professionals who should be tending to patients had to spend time tending to private insurance for just this one case. Now multiply it by every single case, some more than others. We talk about a medical professional shortage in the USA when simply freeing them from insurance timesinks would be an immediate, huge jump in available work hours and morale.
This exact post is in there already from 4 months ago.
And I will continue to upvote it.
That is one hell of a name lol
If you haven't seen it, the name is from this meme
Theres this hilarious "mr show" sketch where the evil dr x does a phone drive every year to raise enough money for himto not blow the world up with his doomsday lazer.
Very american to have a feelgood story for the viewers instead of healthcare for everyone.
These kinds of stories don't make me feel good at all. It's so fucking depressing. It's only "feel good" to USAians.
What feelgood story? $35k isn't even enough for one month of treatment.
failed state
I fucking hate it here.
America Social Healthcare.. That and GoFundMe
Healthcare is number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA. That is f'ed up!
I am so done with all the orphan grinding stories filling communities like "wholesome something" or "made me smile whatever".
Lol at the $35,000. My brother's cancer drug (which is luckily funded by his insurance at the moment -- the same insurance company that balked at paying for an MRI of his brain while he had a six-week long migraine and was unable to walk) costs $40,000 a month.
Breaking Bad is a single episode in any other country.
See how it would rob us of entertainment?
Also, in other countries they can just retire
I mean it's either healthcare or don't close and reopen random straits. Clearly the voters' representatives have spoken and the people prefer the second one