I was born in Bavaria Germany in the 60s but have lived in Georgia since '75 & I am so glad my mother chose this state as it is beautiful top to bottom especially with it being one of the 13 original states! I love the Blue Ridge mountains with my German town of Helen & the coast of Savannah & the Islands of Tybee, Jekyll & Cumberland which is a wild horse & loggerhead turtle sanctuary & was owned by the famous Carnegie family for generations! I have managed to visit 18 of our states & hopefully one day make it out west ✌💖☮
I was a CDL driver for a moving company for many years. Then I drove a transporter for my race car for another 20+ years. Over a million miles logged and I've never been east of the Mississippi river! I still haven't seen the Grand Canyon even. (I even delivered a trailer to a place within an hour of it once but was on the clock and couldn't go!)
The dude who has the chanel Lost in the Pond does a good discription of how big the US is. He also compairs the US to other countries espically the UK which is where he is origionally from. Check him out will be well worth it.
When referring to Healthcare cost. Let's run a thought experiment. Years ago Dr visits could be payed out of pocket or even bartered. Then insurance companies starting forcing Dr to only take insurance coverage. Once insurance companies locked it down. They raised rates so high that people couldn't afford insurance. Then government stepped in and said they would help people pay for insurance by paying for insurance(Obamacare). Then dictate how much Dr can charge. Insurance companies were already charging way to much. Now government says they'll pay. An of corse insurance companies hear that, so they raise prices even more. While paying less for Dr services. So the 2 things that were supposed to "help" with Healthcare, insurance and government. Actually made it so bad that we have the Healthcare debacle we have today. Socialized medicine never works.
Well, all countries need a revolution in thinking. Everyone has been looking to government, but, if you are a relatively mature person you have to admit that government makes everything more expensive. Price competitoin always brings prices down. The problem is that the person seeking the service is not paying for it. Mainly we have not healthcare price transparency. There are plenty of issues which are either out and out elective or which are not at an emergency level. For instance, my husband and I could not find out what our C-scopes would cost without insurance. There was no established price. We could have schedule that procedures any time within a 12 months period. But, there was not way to "shop" for a good price. The system absolutely blocked that. Price competition makes sense in health care, it is just that people have developed a habit of leaning too much on government. In those areas where price competition has been allowed medical care prices have gone down: Lasik eye surgery is an example.
I don't know much about the rest, but the military spending was well over 800B in 2024 200+ B up from this video. Also, hiking is really good around Knoxville TN. I went to school around there for a year, and the school would take us on hiking trails, and also Cumberland Falls and the Arch trails.
Hiking - the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. My county south of Asheville has over 200 waterfalls. Autumn is the most beautiful time but all year is nice.
As a Canadian and somebody who has studied the numbers carefully especially back in the day, before Obamacare a Canadian family of four actually paid $2,000 a year more for healthcare than an American family of four and we had pretty serious wait times even back then
What is more important than health? Profit is so much more important. Just when a doctor finds the best treatment for their patient, the health insurance company finds a way to deny it.
The size is interesting as well considering how much of the land in the top 3 is actually populated. The US is 47% uninhabited land, compared to Canada’s uninhabited land at 80%, and Russia’s at about 77%. It’s interesting how, even though there’s so much space, the majority of people tend to flock to a few highly populated areas with others being sparsely populated due to disinterest or it being straight up uninhabitable (deserts, swamps, national parks, arctic areas, etc).
Yes you didn't grow up in the U.S but you must have friends or relatives or you yourselves must have driven or flown from state to state or North - South ... East - West across country and have an idea on the size of the U.S. New Hampshire has many trails mountains and you can even pick-up the Appalachian trial that runs 2000+ miles through the states in NortEast & East Coast. Plus our tallest Mountain- Mount Washington. I've driven from New Hampshire to Florida and back again a few times and it took aprox. 24hrs one way and Florida alone is a very long state that takes many hours going N to South. Ok back to the video ... thank you 😎👍
I think other countries get the wrong idea. Generally, the police are well funded, but are potentially not well supported socially sometimes and face dangers not faced in other countries. It is true that some cities want to have fewer police officers - until violent crimes rise and then it is made clear that a city needs to have more police and tools available to crack down on crime. Ditto fire control. Ditto trash control. Ditto water and sewer. Ditto road maintenance. People who complain don't come to budget meetings, they just complain. As for health care, we have expensive health care, but better health care. If people follow the rules, the poor can be covered by state health funds, backed by the federal government. However, when funded by these sources it requires a lot of complicated paperwork. Perhaps worse, regular private insurance controls what health care is covered by that provider. Insurance by private provider isn't cheap, but generally covers approximately 80% of costs. When one reaches retirement age the government covers 80% and a private provider (generally covering the rest for free) makes health care manageable, but again the paperwork starts to get annoying. We have gross inefficiencies like every country, but our taxes tend to be lower than countries with socialized medicine and at higher quality. Some Americans opt out of "required" health care providers. The taxes charge you a penalty to minimally cover you. Most Americans want to have the government pay for healthcare but don't want to pay for it themselves. They don't realize that countries with socialized medicine either have bad quality systems or charge higher taxes to cover it. It's not free and you get what you pay for.
The crime rate is down dramatically in the US, compared to one, two and three decades ago. However, corporate crime, which dwarfs retail/street crime, has gone parabolic.
most of the population i is concentrated in large cities, which explains the electoral college. if not for that the rest of the country would not be recognized in the voting. elections.
one thing you gotta remember is China and India have like 1.5 billion people in thier population to our 340 million, so their military and police personnel are larger than ours, their % is smaller than ours.
You know, I myself often wonder why people that watch the channel on RUclips don't watch the intro. I enjoy watching 2 alphas, in your case, a male and female, discuss the upcoming video and everything else you guys say about it in the outro.
The economies of NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago are BY FAR the biggest in the US. All are Top 10 in the world. There's no city in TX that comes close to any of these three.
One possible reason for India and China having so many more police personnel is both of those countries have about four times as many citizens than the U.S. has.
Regarding the economic piece of this video, here is info you might find interesting-this from the non-partisan Brookings Institute- Last year, 2024 Brookings calculations show that Donald Trump’s winning base in 2,633 counties represents 86% of the nation’s total counties but just 38% of the nation’s GDP. Conversely Kamala Harris’ losing base of 427 much higher output counties represents 62% of the GDP. Make of that data what you will.
🇺🇸 APPALACHIAN TRAIL that goes from top of Maine down to Florida. It's a hike, but one of best in the USA. Plenty of unique places on path to stop and see. 🇺🇸
California has a huge economy, a huge tax system and an inept Governor who cannot account for $20 billion, a insolvent unemployment system and cities burning while the greatest part of immigration to the state is illegal or low income so there is a diminishing tax base. Need a better Government here.
Since we lead in R and D at 95% of the worlds medical advancements. The American people pay for those costs. Simply because government funded healthcare won’t pay for the drugs at our prices in America. Because they couldn’t afford it and the “free” healthcare systems around the world would collapse.
One thing to note about the US is that if you're an American living abroad you still have to pay tax to the US gov. How many countries force you to do that?
Depends on the country. Most allied countries have reciprocity agreements the same way states that have income taxes do where you get a tax credit for taxes paid to the place you earned that income. What this means is you ultimately just pay the higher tax rate between the place you earned the income and where you are a citizen/resident, but you're not going to be double taxed.
it’s sad how bad the healthcare systems are all over the world. I think every natural born citizen deserves decent health care no matter where they live. And my geography is terrible as well, I’ve been to Canada, Vancouver Island, it was awesome, but I don’t expect you guys to know all about the United States if you weren’t born here, maybe my education suffered because as I said I know next to nothing about Canada except that it is a beautiful country. and it’s the only other country that I don’t think I would mind living in if it was necessary.
You actually can't see accurate sizes from any type of flat map. All have their distortions. A globe gives a much better idea of relative sizes. Yeah, US health insurance is practically a scam, given the "fine print" of what is covered and what isn't and what you have to get "approvals" for. I also have a decent understanding of the costs it takes to SUCCESSFULLY bring a single new drug to market in the US. For every new drug that makes it to market, there's anywhere from one to three dozen (or more) that don't. Those costs do have to be covered somehow.
California economy is global. Hence,movie,TV industry, also weather helps..this accounts they make more un a day,Than canada makes in a year. If global recession hits.calif will be hit hard lot of countrys are poor and overpopulated and is not a plus
The number one priority for healthcare in the US is profit and I don't think police numbers have changed much at all, as the great flavor flav said don't believe the hype.
Enjoy the reactions hope y’all are doing well the fat electrician Waffle House the Roman colosseum of the south I think you would be blown away it’s awesome
Defund the Police, depends on which state you are in. Like Florida hasn't defunded our police. The US Navy's Air Force is the second largest Air Force in the world, only second to the US Air Force.
Crime overall is at a 40 year low, but since there is still crime, it is reported as if it is happening in your front yard. Nobody watches news that says, everything was fine today in 99.98 % of the country
Los Angeles cut fire department funding $15 billion and increased police spending $125 million. You picked a terrible week to launder this right-wing lie.
Police spending is higher than ever in most major cities. It was cut modestly in a few states but that was only temporary. I suggest that you dig into the data instead of believing what right-wing media tells you. In addition to police, surveillance cameras are everywhere. And private security forces are employed by wealthy corporations. So the issue of "policing" is not limited to publicly employed police officers. We have two capitalist, right-wing political parties that represent the elite. The job of police is to protect the rich from the poor. Do you honestly believe that they'd cut police funding for any meaningful length of time, especially as the chasm between the haves and have nothings widens to levels not seen since the Gilded Age? Please think things through. Lastly, Los Angeles cut fire department spending $15 million and increased police spending $125 million. This will go down as one of the most catastrophic mistakes in California history.
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"A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" a song by Gilbert & Sullivan from the comic opera "Pirates of the Penzance" (1879).
I was born in Bavaria Germany in the 60s but have lived in Georgia since '75 & I am so glad my mother chose this state as it is beautiful top to bottom especially with it being one of the 13 original states! I love the Blue Ridge mountains with my German town of Helen & the coast of Savannah & the Islands of Tybee, Jekyll & Cumberland which is a wild horse & loggerhead turtle sanctuary & was owned by the famous Carnegie family for generations! I have managed to visit 18 of our states & hopefully one day make it out west ✌💖☮
My favorite vacation as a kid was our trip to Jekyll Island. So beautiful. Back then in the early 80's it was so under developed too.
Yes my wife is like you. We live OZARKS. Sons live in Colorado. Her family says these places remain the. Of baveria❤
Yes my wife is like you. We live OZARKS. Sons live in Colorado. Her family says these places remain the. Of baveria❤
Yes my wife is like you. We live OZARKS. Sons live in Colorado. Her family says these places remain the. Of baveria❤
Yes my wife is like you. We live OZARKS. Sons live in Colorado. Her family says these places remain the. Of baveria❤
I was a CDL driver for a moving company for many years. Then I drove a transporter for my race car for another 20+ years. Over a million miles logged and I've never been east of the Mississippi river! I still haven't seen the Grand Canyon even. (I even delivered a trailer to a place within an hour of it once but was on the clock and couldn't go!)
Hidden gem for hiking and biking trails. Northwest Arkansas!
The dude who has the chanel Lost in the Pond does a good discription of how big the US is. He also compairs the US to other countries espically the UK which is where he is origionally from. Check him out will be well worth it.
When referring to Healthcare cost. Let's run a thought experiment. Years ago Dr visits could be payed out of pocket or even bartered. Then insurance companies starting forcing Dr to only take insurance coverage. Once insurance companies locked it down. They raised rates so high that people couldn't afford insurance. Then government stepped in and said they would help people pay for insurance by paying for insurance(Obamacare). Then dictate how much Dr can charge. Insurance companies were already charging way to much. Now government says they'll pay. An of corse insurance companies hear that, so they raise prices even more. While paying less for Dr services. So the 2 things that were supposed to "help" with Healthcare, insurance and government. Actually made it so bad that we have the Healthcare debacle we have today. Socialized medicine never works.
@damonbryan7232 good research
Well, all countries need a revolution in thinking. Everyone has been looking to government, but, if you are a relatively mature person you have to admit that government makes everything more expensive. Price competitoin always brings prices down.
The problem is that the person seeking the service is not paying for it. Mainly we have not healthcare price transparency.
There are plenty of issues which are either out and out elective or which are not at an emergency level. For instance, my husband and I could not find out what our C-scopes would cost without insurance. There was no established price. We could have schedule that procedures any time within a 12 months period. But, there was not way to "shop" for a good price.
The system absolutely blocked that.
Price competition makes sense in health care, it is just that people have developed a habit of leaning too much on government. In those areas where price competition has been allowed medical care prices have gone down:
Lasik eye surgery is an example.
Doctors also started to have to pay a lot for their own insurance. All the doctors being sued skyrocketed their insurance.
I don't know much about the rest, but the military spending was well over 800B in 2024
200+ B up from this video.
Also, hiking is really good around Knoxville TN.
I went to school around there for a year, and the school would take us on hiking trails, and also Cumberland Falls and the Arch trails.
Northwest Arkansas has an insane number of trails and beautiful scenery. Mountain biking is huge here, but so is hiking if that’s all you want to do.
I went to high school in Siloam Springs & loved it up there!! I live about 10min from Petit Jean now & love being so close to national forests.
@@jeremeywilson2318It’s a small world! I’m from Bentonville, it’s amazing how the area has grown!
Hiking - the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. My county south of Asheville has over 200 waterfalls. Autumn is the most beautiful time but all year is nice.
I think you'd like Southwestern Colorado. Lots of beautiful mountain scenery, and tons of hiking trails.
Agree 100%. San Juan mountains are not very crowded and are arguably the most scenic area in Colorado.
@icekaps1415 I hiked, and climbed, all over the San Juans. Grew up in Ouray.
As a Canadian and somebody who has studied the numbers carefully especially back in the day, before Obamacare a Canadian family of four actually paid $2,000 a year more for healthcare than an American family of four and we had pretty serious wait times even back then
What is more important than health? Profit is so much more important. Just when a doctor finds the best treatment for their patient, the health insurance company finds a way to deny it.
If you ever get up Ohio way, I would recommend Hocking Hills for hiking (Southeast end of the state). Always enjoy your content, cheers!
The size is interesting as well considering how much of the land in the top 3 is actually populated. The US is 47% uninhabited land, compared to Canada’s uninhabited land at 80%, and Russia’s at about 77%. It’s interesting how, even though there’s so much space, the majority of people tend to flock to a few highly populated areas with others being sparsely populated due to disinterest or it being straight up uninhabitable (deserts, swamps, national parks, arctic areas, etc).
Yes,
If you want good hiking trails Virginia has some good ones
smoky mountains and the app trail
The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area will soon pass the Chicago metro area in population.
is it true that a lot of canadians come to the us for specialized medical care because of the long wait in canada for this type of medical service?
In Utah go to Zion Park and visit Bonaville Salt Flats
If you haven't been to the Mammoth cave in Kentucky you should check it out. Don't worry about the banjo. 😂😂l😂
Yes you didn't grow up in the U.S but you must have friends or relatives or you yourselves must have driven or flown from state to state or North - South ... East - West across country and have an idea on the size of the U.S.
New Hampshire has many trails mountains and you can even pick-up the Appalachian trial that runs 2000+ miles through the states in NortEast & East Coast. Plus our tallest Mountain- Mount Washington.
I've driven from New Hampshire to Florida and back again a few times and it took aprox. 24hrs one way and Florida alone is a very long state that takes many hours going N to South.
Ok back to the video ... thank you 😎👍
If you want some good hiking camping come in down to colorado!
I think other countries get the wrong idea. Generally, the police are well funded, but are potentially not well supported socially sometimes and face dangers not faced in other countries. It is true that some cities want to have fewer police officers - until violent crimes rise and then it is made clear that a city needs to have more police and tools available to crack down on crime. Ditto fire control. Ditto trash control. Ditto water and sewer. Ditto road maintenance. People who complain don't come to budget meetings, they just complain. As for health care, we have expensive health care, but better health care. If people follow the rules, the poor can be covered by state health funds, backed by the federal government. However, when funded by these sources it requires a lot of complicated paperwork. Perhaps worse, regular private insurance controls what health care is covered by that provider. Insurance by private provider isn't cheap, but generally covers approximately 80% of costs. When one reaches retirement age the government covers 80% and a private provider (generally covering the rest for free) makes health care manageable, but again the paperwork starts to get annoying. We have gross inefficiencies like every country, but our taxes tend to be lower than countries with socialized medicine and at higher quality. Some Americans opt out of "required" health care providers. The taxes charge you a penalty to minimally cover you. Most Americans want to have the government pay for healthcare but don't want to pay for it themselves. They don't realize that countries with socialized medicine either have bad quality systems or charge higher taxes to cover it. It's not free and you get what you pay for.
Come take a trip to Montana I'll give you a personal local tour from a 5th generation Montanan perspective
If you start at the eastern part of the state of Texas. You can drive for 12 hours, and only get to the western part of Texas.
Healthcare insurance in the USA is for profit
The crime rate is down dramatically in the US, compared to one, two and three decades ago.
However, corporate crime, which dwarfs retail/street crime, has gone parabolic.
Watching from Bandera, TX, Cowboy Capital of the World
most of the population i is concentrated in large cities, which explains the electoral college. if not for that the rest of the country would not be recognized in the voting. elections.
Midwest❤ from the front range of Colorado to the OZARKS Missouri Arkansas very beautiful. Be sure to stop in kansaa city BBQ❤
one thing you gotta remember is China and India have like 1.5 billion people in thier population to our 340 million, so their military and police personnel are larger than ours, their % is smaller than ours.
You know, I myself often wonder why people that watch the channel on RUclips don't watch the intro. I enjoy watching 2 alphas, in your case, a male and female, discuss the upcoming video and everything else you guys say about it in the outro.
Government should not be involved in healthcare
Best time renting RV through Yosemite to Lake Tahoe then to Sequoia National Forest.
Arkansas! The National forests are full of primitive camping spots, waterfalls & blue water from all the minerals.
The economies of NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago are BY FAR the biggest in the US. All are Top 10 in the world. There's no city in TX that comes close to any of these three.
*Canadians. Apostrophes don't make words plural. Also, the current population of the US is over 341,000,000.
Come to Arizona for some good hiking.
One possible reason for India and China having so many more police personnel is both of those countries have about four times as many citizens than the U.S. has.
Regarding the economic piece of this video, here is info you might find interesting-this from the non-partisan Brookings Institute-
Last year, 2024 Brookings calculations show that Donald Trump’s winning base in 2,633 counties represents 86% of the nation’s total counties but just 38% of the nation’s GDP. Conversely Kamala Harris’ losing base of 427 much higher output counties represents 62% of the GDP.
Make of that data what you will.
🇺🇸 APPALACHIAN TRAIL that goes from top of Maine down to Florida. It's a hike, but one of best in the USA. Plenty of unique places on path to stop and see. 🇺🇸
☘️”going to be?”
Your thumbnail question ended too early.
Az has the best outdoor life in the country.
Healthcare is going to be getting a whole lot better, once medbeds are introduced to the public.
The USA has way too many police officers. Here in my area they make about 300k a year.
The starting pay for a cop is just over 60,000 a year.........
Here in NC, police starting salary ranges between $40K- $55K depending on the town.
want good hiking come to new england....northeast coast
America will be even bigger when Canada becomes the 51st state, 😂. Just kidding!
Watching from Tyler Texas the Rose 🌹 Capital of the World. Uh, the 900, 000 immigrants yearly is so far off now.
California has a huge economy, a huge tax system and an inept Governor who cannot account for $20 billion, a insolvent unemployment system and cities burning while the greatest part of immigration to the state is illegal or low income so there is a diminishing tax base. Need a better Government here.
Since we lead in R and D at 95% of the worlds medical advancements. The American people pay for those costs. Simply because government funded healthcare won’t pay for the drugs at our prices in America. Because they couldn’t afford it and the “free” healthcare systems around the world would collapse.
It's weird how Canadians don't consider themselves American, the US does not take up the entire continent.
Population of Canada; 41.5 million
Population of USA; 339.4 million
Population of Texas; 31.5 million
You are Canadians and you are impressed how large the states are? Come on... lol
One thing to note about the US is that if you're an American living abroad you still have to pay tax to the US gov. How many countries force you to do that?
If you are Canadian and living abroad, whether you are required to pay Canadian takes or not is dependent on your residency status.
@@pvdogs2 So a Canadian living outside of Canada is expected to pay tax to the canadian gov?
Depends on the country. Most allied countries have reciprocity agreements the same way states that have income taxes do where you get a tax credit for taxes paid to the place you earned that income. What this means is you ultimately just pay the higher tax rate between the place you earned the income and where you are a citizen/resident, but you're not going to be double taxed.
@@jdanon203 Well Im quite sure Brits who dont live in the UK dont pay tax to our gov.
Taxes will be ending soon.
Then again, Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world with a small population
the same as California. One state.
it’s sad how bad the healthcare systems are all over the world. I think every natural born citizen deserves decent health care no matter where they live. And my geography is terrible as well, I’ve been to Canada, Vancouver Island, it was awesome, but I don’t expect you guys to know all about the United States if you weren’t born here, maybe my education suffered because as I said I know next to nothing about Canada except that it is a beautiful country. and it’s the only other country that I don’t think I would mind living in if it was necessary.
So you think other people have a right to the labor of others?
You actually can't see accurate sizes from any type of flat map. All have their distortions. A globe gives a much better idea of relative sizes.
Yeah, US health insurance is practically a scam, given the "fine print" of what is covered and what isn't and what you have to get "approvals" for. I also have a decent understanding of the costs it takes to SUCCESSFULLY bring a single new drug to market in the US. For every new drug that makes it to market, there's anywhere from one to three dozen (or more) that don't. Those costs do have to be covered somehow.
But I'm not saying that's right either.
China and India has around 3x as many people as the USA so I can see why they need more cops.
Well not sow much now because are special president we have back.
Most of Canada is not habitable. The far north. I think I saw 90% of Canadas population live close to the border with USA
have to understand these countries like china and india have over 1 billion people to deal with so its no big deal
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Dose not show territories.
you speak English very well
The U.S. is larger than Canada. But if you include water territory, Canada is larger.
Russia is the largest, followed by Canada (by about 300,000 mi²), then the United States (or China, if the Chinese are involved in the counting).
You will be America's 51st state soon enough. lol. Just kidding.
Who cares what anybody says, just do your video. The trolls are always gonna be there to hate on everybody. Ignore them
Canada is the 2nd largest country with USA 3rd.Funny to watch Canadians watch this and be impressed. Maybe your just being polite.
Canada is like Greenland. Mostly uninhabitable and small populations.
Canada is mostly useless land mass. lol
California economy is global.
Hence,movie,TV industry, also weather helps..this accounts they make more un a day,Than canada makes in a year. If global recession hits.calif will be hit hard lot of countrys are poor and overpopulated and is not a plus
The number one priority for healthcare in the US is profit and I don't think police numbers have changed much at all, as the great flavor flav said don't believe the hype.
Ask us nice we'll let you walk around, we would love to have you.
That was defo a US biased video about the US you watched. "The US is big so it has more stuff". It could be an advertisement for US vacation.
In reality the USA is actually small!
@ well next to Africa for sure. But a lot of the original video showed selective stats shall we say.
Enjoy the reactions hope y’all are doing well the fat electrician Waffle House the Roman colosseum of the south I think you would be blown away it’s awesome
If you want to see things in the proper spatial perspective, look a globe of the earth instead of the common Mercator projection flat world map.
:)
Defund the Police, depends on which state you are in. Like Florida hasn't defunded our police. The US Navy's Air Force is the second largest Air Force in the world, only second to the US Air Force.
Think about just how prosperous the USA would be if they didn't give fund Israel billions and many other nations foreign aid.
Think how much bigger once Canada becomes the 51st state 😂
Hmm...
Dream on.
Crime overall is at a 40 year low, but since there is still crime, it is reported as if it is happening in your front yard. Nobody watches news that says, everything was fine today in 99.98 % of the country
This is old , our military budget is 990 billion and the purchasing power take with a grain of salt Chinese products are trash
De-fund the police never happened.
Uh, that depends on the state and city.........
Los Angeles cut fire department funding $15 billion and increased police spending $125 million. You picked a terrible week to launder this right-wing lie.
Canada the 51st state.
Only assholes would say this.
Police spending is higher than ever in most major cities. It was cut modestly in a few states but that was only temporary. I suggest that you dig into the data instead of believing what right-wing media tells you. In addition to police, surveillance cameras are everywhere. And private security forces are employed by wealthy corporations. So the issue of "policing" is not limited to publicly employed police officers.
We have two capitalist, right-wing political parties that represent the elite. The job of police is to protect the rich from the poor. Do you honestly believe that they'd cut police funding for any meaningful length of time, especially as the chasm between the haves and have nothings widens to levels not seen since the Gilded Age? Please think things through.
Lastly, Los Angeles cut fire department spending $15 million and increased police spending $125 million. This will go down as one of the most catastrophic mistakes in California history.
It’s good that you’re “Curious” because there’s a strong chance that Canada will eventually become part of the United States 😮🫣🇺🇸