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The U.N. is America. All these glorious western European utopias couldn't fund it if they had to. Useless, economically dependent countries. If Germany pulled out, the bread lines would look like highways in the rest of Europe.
I think we should pull out personally. This one government agenda is ridiculous, continually failing, accomplishing nothing aside from draining pockets of American tax payers so European leaders can feel like they still have an impact. Feel good B.S. U.N. is useless, as is NATO.
There have never been more than a few real liberals in Congress and the Senate at one time, people like Tom Hayden, Barbara Lee, Bernie Sanders, Barny Frank and Ted Kennedy. The ACA was compromised to gain support from all the centrist Democrats and with the hope of getting some Republican support. ACA was supported by liberals as an improvement over doing nothing, but they have never been enthusiastic about. It was hoped it will lead to something better.
I have no problem with the continued existence of private health care systems as long as they don't threaten a public system. The two coexist in many European countries.
It's no secret that the US healthcare system is a disaster, and of all developed nations, the US has some of the worst healthcare and overall health.
This Business Insider article mentions the 36 countries that have better healthcare than the US, from France in #1 to Costa Rica in #36.
My poll today is: What needs to change to bring the US closer to other developed nations in terms of healthcare quality, service and costs?
The 36 Best Healthcare Systems In The World - Business Insider
There have never been more than a few real liberals in Congress and the Senate at one time, people like Tom Hayden, Barbara Lee, Bernie Sanders, Barny Frank and Ted Kennedy. The ACA was compromised to gain support from all the centrist Democrats and with the hope of getting some Republican support. ACA was supported by liberals as an improvement over doing nothing, but they have never been enthusiastic about. It was hoped it will lead to something better.
I have no problem with the continued existence of private health care systems as long as they don't threaten a public system. The two coexist in many European countries.
Whether their commiecrats that call themselves liberal, socialist, progressive or any other than, they are still the greatest destructive force in the country.
As far as what works in Europe, most of our ancestors came here to get away from crap in Europe, not copy it.
Weird when I went to Europe it wasn't war ravaged anymore, the Berlin Wall was down, and overall they seem to have a pretty good quality of life equal to or greater than America; especially those dang Scandinavian countries. Basically all of America's fundamentals ideas and concepts came from Europe aswell.
Weird when I went to Europe it wasn't war ravaged anymore, the Berlin Wall was down, and overall they seem to have a pretty good quality of life equal to or greater than America; especially those dang Scandinavian countries.
There are certainly problems with the American system. It is too expensive, for instance. But it is not so straightforward what "better" means.
When you sight the European countries, I know some of the systems quite well. If I consider the German, the only thing that is better is that it takes less of GDP. But most of the better doctors or dentists are American trained. If you don't have private insurance you get less good treatment . The quality ofpublic coverage has come down and is deteriorating. The frequency of hospital infection of MFSR is so high that you are refused admittance in Dutch hospitals coming from a German hospital etc.
Also don't forget that most medicine is developed for the American market and the quality of treatment in other countries is thus only possible because of the state of US health care.
And how much of the **** they have is reliant upon us, that being the US. They have a low enough population that their oil sales cover their expenses. Take a look a Mexico and Venezuela, both get their money the same way but due to much greater populations, they suck.
So don't be feeding us a line about how well reliant socialism works there when your trying to kill off the ones they are reliant upon and their system has proven to be futile and down right idiotic for larger populations.
Also, if you and others like that **** so well, guess what, there are boats and airplanes headed that way everyday, don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out and don't expect us to miss you. If you think it is so good the, fine move instead of trying to **** **** up for the rest of us.
I'm quite happy sitting above your country with my socialized medicine. There are also larger countries with socialized medicine, Japan being the main example.
Basically all of America's fundamentals ideas and concepts came from Europe aswell.
And how much would you have without us?
Look, your in a low population, marginally influential country that is not the leader of much of anything. The US is the most innovative, influential country in the world. We are only a little over 300 million, but we are overwhelmingly the major source of innovation and all the rest of the around 7 billion people in the world are reliant upon us. We pay for the drugs people get, we pay for the technology, we create the procedures and we are the ones that in the end, pay for and provide so the rest can have it.
Face it, economically, politically, socially and medically, Canada and all the Scandinavian countries could fall of the face of the earth tomorrow and very little if anything in the world, other than the ocean levels, would change and the percentage of the world that would care is measured to the right of the decimal point of 1% with a lot of leading zeros.
When you become top dog, then you tell us something, until then, we are the top dog and you are just a fringe hanger on to the pack.
Free speech and guns (which are not widely accepted over there anymore)?
France and Britain are still in the top 10 economies in the world, as is Germany. They have two of the best militaries in the world -- most analysts put France as the third most powerful military IN THE WORLD, after the US and Russia.
The EU is the world's largest economy, the centre of Western political and philosophical thought, and the single largest: Aid donor, developer, international arbiter, economic power, and normative/social power.
The French and British invade, even in the last 50 years, more countries on average than the US, and indeed they have a better success rate in those countries. France has just recently deployed to Chad, the Central African Republic and Mali, while also maintaining a force in Afghanistan for the duration of that war, as well as troops in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti, Cote d'Ivoire, and Guyana amongst others. The allied intervention in Libya in 2011 was mainly based off of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which is, by the way, the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world operated by a country other than the US.
The countries of the EU, as well, fund a much larger portion of the UN than America does:
United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All told, America funds 22% of the UN, while the EU funds more than 30% of the UN.
So, in other words, pull your colonial head out of your ass -- the facts do not agree with you.
Free speech exists in Europe aswell
Speech is suppressed in Europe.
Militaryies? What do you know about militaries. The US is more than capable of defeating conventionally the entire combined military forces of the rest of the world if the British and British Commonwealth states stay neutral. Britain (commonwealth countries included here), Israel and possibly japan are the only two countries that even come close to developing the quality of US equipment and troops. Can we exert control over all those populations, no, could we defeat them in a stand up fight, no problem at all, just might take a bit of time.
EU is not the most political or economically influential. If given a choice between the EU and the US in a trade war, there would be very few who followed the EU. And military force = Political influence when all is said and done.
BTW, in Afghanistan, it was the French, who retreated in the face of odds faced regularly by US and the British forces that allowed the insurgents to get such a strong foot hold in Afghanistan today. The only problem defeating French troops is where to put and how to feed all the surrender monkies.
Speech is suppressed in Europe.
Don't be absurd. We have all of the free speech rights that you do.
Please tell me, how?
Ridicule, hate, contempt, and blasphemy speech. Especially in England, with jail for tweeting.
Don't be disingenuous -- you have the same laws.
Absolutely not. All four of the ones mentioned are not just allowed, the state is banned from punishing them.
Show me the laws. I know for a fact people have been prosecuted for just those things
France and Britain are still in the top 10 economies in the world, as is Germany. They have two of the best militaries in the world -- most analysts put France as the third most powerful military IN THE WORLD, after the US and Russia. I can hear it now, 'we're number 3! we're number 3!
The EU is the world's largest economy, the centre of Western political and philosophical thought, and the single largest: Aid donor, developer, international arbiter, economic power, and normative/social power.
It's the center of failed western political ideology, a failed social experiment, and is being held together by one country (it was two, but France just chased out it's top earners with their new 75% tax, well done by the way). Isn't the Euro about to collapse anyways? How many countries have been bailed out? I think Greece is going on round 2.
The French and British invade, even in the last 50 years, more countries on average than the US, and indeed they have a better success rate in those countries. France has just recently deployed to Chad, the Central African Republic and Mali, while also maintaining a force in Afghanistan for the duration of that war, as well as troops in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti, Cote d'Ivoire, and Guyana amongst others. The allied intervention in Libya in 2011 was mainly based off of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which is, by the way, the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world operated by a country other than the US.
Congratulations. America doesn't care.
The countries of the EU, as well, fund a much larger portion of the UN than America does:
United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All told, America funds 22% of the UN, while the EU funds more than 30% of the UN.
So, you mean to tell me all of the countries in the EU managed, TOGETHER, to pay only 8% more than a single country? This isn't something to be proud of.
So, in other words, pull your colonial head out of your ass -- the facts do not agree with you.
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