Quote (Skinned @ 20 Jan 2019 16:25)
Bad conditions here is pretty great in most countries. Even in our low income housing developments physical spaces are at least 1000 square feet for single bedroom places, which is very sizable, and at least larger than many of the apartments and hotel rooms I seen during the two years I lived in Germany. I don't know if France has an increased love for personal space but the spaces seemed small. As for health care access if you make under a certain amount (~$700 a month, if you receive social security or disability it puts you above this and you're stuck using Medicare which has personal costs) you receive Medicaid (if you apply and keep up with it) which pays for all health care with no personal costs. There are two tiers of providers in America in certain specialties one for commercial insurance and medicare and one for medicaid. Even providers that do both will take 1-2 medicaid patients per 20-30 commercial patients and they're rationed in and you can say you're a medicaid provider and receive those benefits. If you're a nonprofit you have to accept medicaid and medicare and you cannot refuse an individual stabilizing care regardless of their ability to pay or whether they actually have medicaid or medicare under the law EMTALA. EMTALA is a law passed and funded by the government to ensure that all people will receive stabilizing care if they need it regardless of ability to pay. The thing about most Bills passed and signed into laws by Ronald Reagan is that they made demands on states, cities, and counties, promised funding for these things, and never provided funding for these things because they were too terrible at managing all the money they taxed from people. RR grew government larger than anyone since FDR. He created unpaid for universal health care, he closed state mental health institutions and turned jail and nursing home into MH facilities, he completely ignored AIDS as a public health crisis, and stranger than fiction he used crack-cocaine money brought in by CIA drug dealing in American cities to pay for his little dirty secret wars when congress cut him off.
I lived through Reagan which is frankly why I'm not freaking out about Trump. We have had evil presidents before, Trump isn't evil, and he would probably do the right thing if he was smart enough and competent, but he is neither and his leadership is more of a failure of both the Republican and Democratic party to get their shit together and listen to their voters and fellow citizens. Both parties have been supporting the 1% over their countries and you can't be loyal to both. The 1% have interests diametrically opposed to the 99% and the 1% of the world are a group in and of themselves and aren't Americans, Frenchman, Deutchlanders, Japanese, etc. They are their own nation, and they have most of the world occupied through government.
Large distances and low amount of inhabitants per km² seems great but has serious drawbacks like the excessive use of energy fuel.
Healthcare is shared since decades now and people even forgot it. Harder to implement it in US for sure; this culture of performance (to make it look nice) and emergency has serious drawbacks too... Like forgetting about the environment, consumption/waste/recycling control & excess, long term.
I see no other issue to fix the political system (legal corruption, campaign funding, electoral colleges) than:
- civil war / revolution
- economical crisis pushing people to vote for left or far left at a rate of something like 70% /e: for a decade or two...
The cultural aspect is in decline, questioned, even accused... Note that a part of the population (like 30% ?) does not see it.
This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Jan 20 2019 01:58pm