My ex husband is american - he had very frequent debilitating migrains. In the US, he was prescribed 6 different type of pills (some of which he had to take daily) in order for him to function, and some of them had side effects such as mood swings and depression. He then he moved in with me, in Germany, and we re-evaluated his care. Because he was my husband, my healthcare covered him completely before he even started working here. We went to multiple specialists and ALL of the pills that were given to him in the US were deemed to be treatments of symptoms and not removing any of the causes (that's how they make money, I guess). He was asked to stop taking all of his pills and they were replaced with ONE pill he had to take weekly and the problem was solved. 2 Doctors, 3 specialists, MRIs, brain scans, and the medication itself: my bill? 30 euros. You can call "Socialism" evil all you want (even though I truely believe that most americans confuse socialism with communism anyway and have no idea what they're saying) - but our socialism made a person that was on the point of being disabled to a productive member of society - and wouldn't that actually be something you want in a capitalist country full of consumerism ??? More healthy workers = better - no matter your way of leading a country.
Well that's not socialism per se but simply a society taking care of the sick. Besides it being the humane thing to do it is also checks and balances. America pretends to be a pure capitalist country but they're clearly not because otherwise they'd make the same calculation. America is a class society that thrives on segregation and sucking people dry. It has nothing to do with capitalism because it's only for the happy few. America is an amazing country to live in, when you're rich. I'm Dutch by the way. We don't need a Nordic left system to take care of each other. It's perfectly possible to have a center right government and chamber and also accessible healthcare for everyone and the right to go and enjoy vacations and days off without losing your job and your insurance. All of society benefits when society has as many healthy workers as possible.
@@andersriksson100 The Netherlands has a long history of center right with swings to the left whereas the Nordic countries are seen as primarily left. That's why I called it that.
In Portugal we use to say " my freedom stops where my neighbor's freedom begins"...we are all free to live the way we wish to but respect and considering others is needed. Hope it makes sense to the Americans...
I live in Portugal for ten years now, coming here from Germany via Canada, where I lived and worked for 35 years. In both Portugal and Canada I found it easy to fit in, because of the sentiment you expressed. Having grown up in Germany, especially in smaller towns and villages, the atmosphere could be quite repressive and unfriendly if your political and religious believes did not fit in. That is something I did not encounter in the small communities I reside(d) in, both in Canada and Portugal, where especially in the latter people are reserved, but friendly towards the stranger. In Canada this reserve, that I much appreciate, is often lacking, and the friendliness can be overwhelming.
@@fernthurman5172 I agree with you say that it is/should be a principle of living in a democracy... If and whenever you'll come to Portugal I hope you "ll appreciate and enjoy the country and our way of living... Love and light to you and your partner! 🌸🌼
Speaking to an American about healthcare. He said " That's communism, why should I pay for someone else's health". I asked him who pays for your military. He said "we all do". So I asked him - is that communism then ! He changed his argument to - " it would be too costly". I gave him a general idea of how much tax we pay compared to how much he pays for health insurance. It is far, far, far cheaper than the American system. He said "where does all his money go then". Into the pockets of billionaires, that's where it goes.
The US pays about 18% of GDP towards "health care", for a system that doesn't cover everyone .Here in Australia ,( and most of the rest of the world) approximately 9% of GDP goes towards a healthcare system that while not perfect , generally treats everyone reasonably well, you wont be kicked to the kerb because your insurer says no.
@@johnstirling6597 A very good friend’s American son in law had prostate cancer and wanted an additional scan, his insurance provider refused to pay, so he had to pay himself. Mt dear old mum had several scans towards the end of her life, no argument.
It is worth telling more Americans this fact. They DO in fact pay taxes towards a health care system in the restricted form of Medicare and Medicaid. The American system is so insanely costly to run that those taxes work out as being pretty much the same that Brits pay for a system that covers everyone because theirs is cheaper. It costs about $5,000 to provide an appendix operation in the UK compared to at least $40,000 in the USA. Then the Americans have to pay insurance and also pay bills because insurance doesn't cover 100%. So they are paying three times for something that still doesn't give universal cover. It's a scam.
Universal healthcare wouldnt work in the US because of the way it functions right now But it is funny how many people are against universal healthcare but have health unsurance. Its literally the same thing but made to take as much money from you as they can
@@blotski Something I like to point out, is that we in The UK aren't restricted to The NHS alone. We have the option of going with private healthcare/insurance if we want, just like America. The really interesting part is that the most minimal and basic level of healthcare in America *_somehow_* costs more than the high end, ultra-luxurious private care available here - the kind of care where the hospital seems more like a five star resort, or private members club. In The UK, if we choose private healthcare we still pay *_less_* and get *_more_* than Americans do. Three hundred dollarbucks for a single Tylenol tablet? Five hundred for an IV stand that you don't even get to _keep?_ There's no way to make that make sense.
Here in the ancient, creaky, rainy old UK; a general election was called then one month later after some modest campaigning we all voted (4th July) and the next day a new government was installed. No £100m campaigns. No rallies. No attempts to remove ballot options or intimidation at voting stations. No attempted coup or storming of government buildings. The former prime minister apologised for not being good enough. From a country many see as crumbling & disfunctional. There's too much money to be made out of US politics, like every other aspect of US life. I feel sorry for the US population.
Yes, we are far from perfect but I do feel we are a fair nation and we fume at insincerity and double standards. Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson springs to mind!
Rishi Sunak only apologised because he thought it made him look good.Instead of fake apologies why not do something to improve our country? Oh I forgot,that would require both caring and effort which seem to be things of which they are not capable.
One huge freedom we have in Europe, Scandinavia, Japan etc is we don’t have religion shoved down our throats, you know, like America and most Muslim countries.
You can add many countries around the world to that... Where religion is not shoved down your throat.. Places where all religions are tolerated. Even in some predominantly Muslim countries in Asia. Americans are just generally ignorant - a function of their society?
98.8% Of Americans are in to religion because they are young and still have that knowledge they took with them. Europe is thousands upon thousands of years old and we have had enough of the Pope, Church and all that crud. Give the US another 1000 or so years, they will also be fed up with all the poverty, wars and hatred that comes with Religion.
I never understood how Americans can make their children say a "pledge of allegiance". This was done here in Germany in the 1930´s and is considered as indoctrination since.
Fun fact: a pledge of allegiance is something you find only in countries with dictators or in communist countries. Thinking that the USA fights against communists but has a pledge of allegiance this country must be a dictatorship like North Korea. At least if Trump becomes President again.
You obviously weren't educated about the differences between the Third Reich and American democracy. This comparison bears witness to an ignorant mind.
@@olika9076 Hitler was democratically elected. But my question is why the daily pledge? Are Americans too stupid to remember they made the pledge the day before or does an American pledge only last 24 hours?
@@hneemann Mark Twain~ "It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled"..he must have had a premonition of the political trajectory of America (since 2016).😉
@@Knightowl1980 You are free. Free to succeed or fail. Some would love that freedom, many more will suffer. A society that benefits the winner and penalizes the loser. That is US freedom. And that is the part where your freedoms actually exist. The US has tons of numbing regulations and strange laws. But the most insane part is that this freedom myth is sold as the greatest thing on earth.
@@baskoller5506 no one’s punishing you though. And a Society and businesses need regulation to protect the public and business. Yeah is some of it dumb but that’s bc we never revisit the laws and regulations we make to see if they’re still necessary. You shouldn’t be able to do whatever the fk u want if it puts the public’s health, safety and economically at risk
I am a UK citizen (born and bred, as it happens) I have to pay for socialised medicine NHS has fixed the throat cancer for me (didn't pay for that) but every three months I have to go to the hospital for check up. Costs me £5.60, return, on the train. Plus an espresso. The stress that takes out of life is enormous. A wee bit tax is worth it.
Close friend of the family has been breast cancer free for a year now, paying for parking at the hospital was the most expensive part of it, about £4 a visit think it cost her about £80 total over a year of treatment.
@@minmo2288 NHS would pick me up, but it takes a lot of waiting and anyway the train is pleasant, there is a bit of walking which is good exercise, and the espresso is not the best, but serviceable. Not a bad deal for my taxes.
@@chrissaltmarsh6777. Absolutely! I'm 73 and a congenital heart defect has caught up with me in my golden years. I don't have to worry about a thing. I take 7 different kinds of medication which I don't pay for and I am looked after by the cardiology department in a world-famous teaching hospital where I get the very best of care whenever I need it. I started work at 16 years old, retired at 67 years old. I am grateful that I could pay towards my care through my taxes throughout my life. It's a much better way than being sick and suffering because medical care is held to financial ransom as it is in the US.
I'm British and go every year to Tampa to see my friend. A few years back, he was on a step ladder in his beautiful home, replacing a bulb when he fell and hit his head on some furniture. At the hospital, he was not responding well and was eventually diagnosed with partial brain damage. He was released from the hospital nine months later and now needs help at home for the rest of his life. He and his family are now living in a small flat in a dodgy side of Tampa because he had to sell his home to pay his medical bills. His wife and two children no longer live the way they did, which he worked hard all his life to give them. The insurance company bled them dry and still give them worries of monthly bills they can't afford. I am so blessed to live in Britain knowing that if something like that happened to me, I would be taken care of without selling my home, or putting my hand in my pocket to pay anything. I'm angry to see a big, happy man like him lose his spirit to a point of deep disper and a family having their life torn apart by the greed of insurance companies. A lot of Americans are stuck with their jobs because they get health care from it. That's no way to live your life. Our real crown jewels is not in the tower of London, but is our National Health Service
This is the biggest thing I can't understand that americans want it this way for. You work your whole life to build a life for yourself and then you can lose it all just because you get sick, your job can fire you at will and the hospital bills takes everything from you.. what is it all for ?..
I hereby appeal to your common sense: we (all inhabitants of this earth) should NOT want such abuses. Let us do everything we can to avoid sliding into an Earth that will become a hostile place for this reason. Please boys and girls of this earth follow the motto of live and let live until life within reason is no longer worth living and let's stop the parasites (Big companies, governments, and politicians) who are only after one thing and that is living at the expense of the quality of life of the ordinary man (and woman) of this world society!
The Constitution of the United States and its Amendments, is one of the greatest examples of Democracy in history. Unfortunately, rich people have bastardised it to its limits. So now, poor people have rights but only if they can afford them.
And hard won rights at that, the US at the moment looks and sounds like a madhouse with the far far right taking over the Supreme Court and going so far to the right its really really bad 1st taking away womans rights with Roe and now giving a potus a get out of jail free card which with a lunatic like trump around it's very bad news for the US itself last chance in Nov or the US will fall just like the USSR did, Russia and China are watching with glee while trump is turning your country into a battle field.
In America you have the freedom to own and travel by car. And if you don't have a car, or can't afford a car, you have the freedom to be severely restricted in your ability to move around.
The big difference between the two is, that Americans have every right, freedom and possibility to educate themselves about Europe or anything else, whereas North Koreans are purposely hindered or even forbidden to do so.
As a 58 year old it is a privilege to watch your generation of Americans wake up, long after I'm gone you'll be in charge and with open eyes you are going to make the world a better place.
@@lilmoyinyang5812 From the UK, I agree with you. I've seen and listened to the youth of America and am appalled at their ignorance and lack of education. Like their older generation, the know nothing outside of their own state borders, and generally don't seem tpo care. On that basis I can't see them make any changes whatsoever. The sad truth is that all over the world our nations are in decline. The world I live in now, is not the same world I born into; there is now no respect for man or beast, no love for or from a neighbour, and no care for anyone but themselves - a dogeat dog world where the only instinct is self-survival. I'm glad I'm close to my time on earth, for the freedoms and lifestyle my grandparents, my parents and myself have fought for, have all but disappeared for good, and anarchy reigns supreme. The human race is an abomination and getting worse.
@@lilmoyinyang5812 Let me ask you something: you are republican voter, you have a lot of money and a gun at home right? Continue living in your bubble. Do please not open your eyes how world can be better for everyone.
Hate to rain on your little parade here.. but it will be some Chinese dude that is in charge. They own over 20% of your country already and it grows by the day. And they're smart. They have realised that war is bad for business and just cost a lot of money. Better to stealthily buy up the place by lending money and invest in businesses.
I have been 5 weeks in the US for training some time ago and I was struck by the things you heard actually happening to you. Some examples: - being halted by the police while walking to a restaurant and getting the question: "Why are you walking here". - Getting all day long the: "How are you" with a big smile while not being interested at all in you. - Everything has to be done by car. - Signs on door stating: "No guns allowed inside the premises". - Not being able to take a walk in the evening around the hotel. - Asking people directions and then get completely ignored. - Having big malls outside the city. There was both8ng to do in the city so everyone got to those 3 big malls around the city. - Ther heart-warming welcome at the airport with the special treatment line /s - Being able to see what the political standings are of people just by watching television because the news companies are always tied to one of the political spectrums. - And people indeed having no clue what is happening in the rest of the world... At first I thought it couldn't be that bad but it was all confirmed in just a couple of weeks...
Well I was stopped by the police one time here in Sweden while out walking and being asked what I was doing so it's not only the US. It was in the middle of the night though and I was wearing a black hoodie and other dark clothes so I probably looked like a potential burglar! Once they saw me up close they left me alone but I have a slight suspicion that if I had been of a foreign ethnicity like from the middle east who knows what would have happened...
@@rubenpuls353 Or maybe they thought that you were a drug dealer. Because the description of the outfit kinda sounds like what they would stereotypically wear. Or the fact that you kinda were camouflage yourself in the night which can be suspicious for anyone.
In the UK, i had a bad car accident. I was in ICU for a fortnight, hospital for 4 months, and a wheelchair for 6 months. I had to retire from my low-grade job. Years later i got cancer, and had several organs removed. I have medication for diabetes and a heart condition. I have never had to pay a penny for any of this. My wife has never been forced to work to pay the bills 😊. I own my own home, 😊 a nice reliable Mercedes 😊😊, and my children have passed through university and have good jobs 😊😊😊. I'm not rich, but i never need worry about bankruptcy. And i can walk again. I enjoy a productive life helping others. Lucky? Maybe, but thanks to people before me who fought for these benefits.
you have paid though, you paid the equivalent of insurance its just the we have a system of collective insurance which massively reduces the cost. Healthcare is not "free" here, we just pay for it in a way which means the costs can be kept very low.
@@sess5206Americans are obscenely overcharged for medical treatment. The British most certainly do pay for it in their taxes. I don't understand your point .
@@sess5206 That is just not true. The cost of health is a cost. We pay more because our system is better. But, if you work at a good job you do not pay taxes, you don't pay for care, the business does. You may or may not pay a premium. When your are young and healthy, you don't need health care. And here you don't pay for it, you can spend that money on what you want. It is a different mentality, but Americans are wealthier, and if they work hard for a decent job, the job pays. If you go into the military, your healthcare is payed for and if you retire, theose benifits continue. Same with government jobs. You really don't know what you are talking about. What you talk about are worse case scenarios. But for the most part US has superior health care.. if you want it and want to work for it.
My brother used to spend every summer with my sister in the US and on one occasion he was there for about 3 months so he went to school there. On his first day he got pulled out in front of the class for not pledging his allegiance to the flag. When he said that he was not American he got into even more trouble and told that as long as he was in an American school he would do as everyone else did. What a terrible thing to do to an 11 year old
What i find strange is how Americans constantly feel the need to prove and shout at everyone how patriotic they are, which feels very much like complete indoctrination to me. You can still be patriotic without having to constantly say so. And that Americans get so defensive if they hear criticism about America - again, being able to see the bad points about your country does not make you unpatriotic. You can still love your country while wanting to make improvements without blindly thinking that your country is always the best.
For me, the only few ways to show your true patriotism is to pay your taxes fairly, vote regularly, and point out the obvious social (or any sort of) injustices and problems in your society. Beware of those who are wrapping themselves up in flags of their "beloved country" and proclaiming they are the only "true patriots". Those usually have bad things to hide. As Samuel Johnson said 250 years ago: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
Being able to accept criticism allows you to see the bad points and improve them. Americans are basically incapable of accepting criticism about their country and thus incapable of seeing the bad points, leave alone improving them.
This patriotic nationalism of theirs has the function of indoctrinating their people and making them ready to fight wars provoked by their elite for the interests of the same power elites. The freedoms flaunted by propaganda are not actually freedoms but are privileges.
Back in 1995 I was hired from London to work in LA as a specialist film technician. I've been practicing yoga for many years and so at 6 pm the first day I said good bye and my boss asked me where I was going. I said yoga. "OH no you can't I want you to do something at 8pm and it will last till midnight". "Humm, so you then expect me to come to work tomorrow at 8.30 AM? "Yes" he said. "Ok, I quit then, have a good night, I won't see you ever again, I'm going back to London tomorrow, taaa". And that was my amerikan working experience. FU!
Two American friends of ours finally did "the holiday of a lifetime" and visited us in the UK. We live in London and as we got close to home, one of them (in quite a shocked and scared voice) said "I didn't know you lived in a black neighbourhood". When we got home, we stood at the front door and I pointed out the various origins of our neighbours up and down the street. White British, Black British, Indian, both Black and White European (from various countries), Black African (from various countries), Turkish, Far Eastern (from various countries), Black Caribbean, Middle Eastern (from various countries), Russian and White South African. And to truly scare them out of their wits I took them shopping........down Electric Avenue and Brixton Market.
My daughter works with Americans and recently took them round London. They thought 'London' was just Oxford St and Big Ben. She took them to Camden, Brick Lane and other places.. blew their minds.
US is the most racist country of them all. Regarding everything, the race is first thing they mention. "First black to do this and first latino to do that" like that would have anything to do with it. Amazes me how so diverse country can be so...
That guy is spot on! My father was an American retired from the US navy, my children are in USA as they are Americans and I am Spanish that decided to come back home Spain as I couldn't cope with the America way of life. I'm less stressed, healthy eating, free national health care, outdoor social life and constantly worry about crime regardless time of the day. There's no comparison Europe's life style with the USA and yes I lived 18 years in the UK absolutely brilliant
My friend, Helen, has just had a 6 hour op on the NHS. Two surgeons, one to remove a cancer from her colon and the other to realign her stomach which had come through a massive hernia and was pressing on her heart. She is in her mid 70s. She's doing well and now back to walking and enjoying herself. Thanks NHS.
I did research last year that showed 73% of Americans who lived near to Canada went to Canada to get medications. Also that 66% of Americans who lived near to Mexico even went to that so called POOR Country to get medical care. What the hell is going wrong?
I was about to say it is not only Europe that has great healthcare, your neighours to the north and south do too. I lived in the US for 13 years, I experienced a lot of these lies but I did enjoy my time in the US. Then I moved to Canada and realized how much happier I am with a higher quality of life.
Yeah Canada where they more or less encourage people with non lethal mental conditions/disabilities to euthanize themselves instead of giving them the care they actually need... Or is that a lie that is being spread? I don't know. I'd like to hear it from someone living in Canada.
I think I saw a documentary about US people taking busses to Canada to buy insulin. Think a woman said she could buy a year supply insulin for the same cost as for a month in US. That blew my mind. I live in Sweden. No cost at all for diabetes. At least not for type 1.
I lived in the US for 10 years. Something that I noticed with pretty much everyone was that they wanted what we have in Sweden....5 weeks paid vacation, right to 480 days parental leave, 120 days per year stay at home with sick child, free healthcare, free education even universities and so on. But when they heard the amount of tax we pay they were freaking out. To have all those perks it costs money and our taxes makes for a society with more solidarity, you don't have to be rich to go to university or afford to be sick. Everyone wanted it as long as it didn't cost anything and they didn't have to pay tax that might benefit someone else.
We have a lot of that in Canada too. We do pay some higher taxes but at the end of the day we dont pay anywhere near what Americans pay in taxes, health insurance etc etc etc. We comes out way ahead in the long run.
What they don't know, that at the end of the day, we have more money left in our pockets. Because we don't have to pay those weird fees they do. In there they are called fees, and ours are taxes. And the fees + all the insurances, cost more than our taxes and insurances combined. So we shouldn't just compare taxes with their taxes. We should compare their weird fees - like the school district, water district, etc. fees. And this is before you get sick or have to send your kid to university. When that happens - hands down I have much more money left at the end of the month.
Americans pay a lot in tax, like property taxes, which are MUCH higher than in Sweden. In Sweden the maximum amount per year in property tax on a house is less than $1000 US. Compare that to some places where property taxes are tens of thousands of dollars. Then there's the private health care premiums in the US, which can be very expensive. Even if your employer pays your premiums, your out-of-pocket costs can be high. Then there's the cost of daycare and college tuition. Americans are already paying through the nose privately. If they paid through taxes instead, then everyone would benefit, not just the rich. Anyway, my Swedish income tax last year was 18.5%. That includes the equivalent of Social Security taxes, which is 6.4% in the US. That means my income tax would be the equivalent of just over 12% in the US. The point is, unless you have an extremely high income, you aren't paying all that much here in tax in Sweden. It's true that sales tax is 25% but in several states in the US sales tax can reach almost 10%. Then there's the tipping culture that adds 20% to a meal. 😅😅😅
In France we often say your freedom stops where the one of others starts. Meaning sure you’re free for example to say what you think but you can’t discriminate or appeal for hatred as it would be going against someone else’s freedom
I just remembered something from when I was like 8 years old. We were on holiday in France. A bus full of American kids stopped where we were having a coffee. They all got out, got the flag out and sang their anthem. Then they just got back on the bus and drove away. It was a surreal experience for us to say the least.
Shame they don't even bother to sing their national anthem in their own country. I watch a lot of American sports and have never once seen a single American fan sing the national anthem but I think that's because it takes all their brain power to concentrate on holding their hands on their heart and stopping them from extending it forwards!
Because of my job placement, I am a Brit who has lived and worked in America for a while. My biggest takeaway was the ignorance of the average American outside America and an unquestioning belief that America was the best of everything.
I worked in the US on an IT contract some years ago. I had a good time and the people were super. I was however a little taken aback when a US college asked "Do you have toilets in France?" I did think to say 'ever since we ran out of space in our gardens' but was too surprised. We have toilets in France. And bidets, showers, baths, hot and cold running water, good waste treatment systems etc.
I saw a recent video of a guy in a busy street with a huge world map interviewing Americans asking them to name different countries on the map...some of them didn't even know which country on that map was the U.S
In the EU a sick day is not a holiday. That means: if you take 7 days holidays/ vacation and get sick for a week, all it takes is a doctor's note and your employer has to give you those 7 days back in holidays. Its amazing
It's not amazing. It's normal and fair. The states is the anomaly, the odd one out in democracy. But very much like China or Russia? Weird how you have to be rich to get even the basics In these 3 countries. But free in countries with true freedom.
@@GreenWhitePurple The idea as far as I understand is thus: A death panel is when you have to decide who to even treat out of some amount of people. So it's like having to decide whether this grandma should live or this young smoker. Underlying assumption being that the capacity for health care is too low with socialized medicine. Completely ridiculous, only seen this sort of thing in American medical dramas. In reality it is a long queue or a short queue depending on how quickly you need care. That's about it.
@@vez3834 just to be honest... COVID really put us in that situation during worst period. But that's not about small capacity (usually it's more than enough) but about pandemic of disease without known treatment and very specific required equipment. But... You can't prepare for everything I guess
Australian here - at secondary school we learned World Geography - rivers capitals Mountain ranges etc - and histories of North America Europe etc .....
An example of "Pledging Allegiance to the flag" gone wrong was when a friend of mine from Holland did a year long student exchange in the USA. After a couple of weeks, the teacher took him to one side and said that she had noticed he wasn't joining in. He looked at her perplexed and said "I'm Dutch" and the teachers' reply was hysterical - "You are living here now"...
I've watched Joel for a few years now, and seen his eyes gradually open to a more objective (and critical) view of the USA. I often wonder how much he expresses this more critical perspective to his friends, acquaintances and family, and how they react to it. Does he get push-back - accusations of anti-patriotism? Both Carl (who he was reacting to) and Joel alluded to the pervasive nature of nationalist propaganda in the US, so I can well imagine things could become quite confrontational should he dare to express his dissatisfaction with the status quo. I loved the positivity and optimism with which Joel ended - though they have one hell of a battle ahead. The corporations that run the US have massive power, now beyond the reach of legitimate politics or democracy.
I can recall pretty much every generation since the 1960s, protesting and saying, basically, "we're gonna change everything!", but it seems that, by the time they get through college and are starting into the workforce with massive student loan debt, the need to work to live (to pay down debt, buy and insure a vehicle to get to and from work, pay for health care insurance, pay rent or dream of owning their own home someday, marry, have children, co-pay what insurance doesn't pay for childbirth, buy healthcare insurance for those children, pay for childcare for those children so you can continue to work because you can't afford to lose your job now that you've got all these daily expenses, etc.), there's no time that's right to do anything about the system that you swore you would fight against because you're too busy living in that system! It's the same for every generation. (Edited to correct a typo.)
He is still learning, let the experience build then his position will evolve, forcing a political position out of him would be very wrong, he will speak when he's ready. JPS for president is a campaign to get behind 🤯
I was a tour director before retirement and visited the USA for many years. One think that amazed me was the ignorance towards other countries. Now a 75 yo and living in Spain I have superb social medical treatment - free of charge.
As an Australian I had a distant American relative visit. She had a Phd so wasnt a dummy. We took her to all the usual visitor spots including a visit to the public gallery of our parliament while it was in session. She expressed surprise at seeing how Government worked in our 'communist' country. She was from Florida.
We were on a holiday in the US. We were talking to some US citizens & the topic if health care came up. We told them Australia has Medicare which is a universal health care system for all Australian citizens, permanent residents & some temporary residents which resulted in one of the group stating, 'I didn't know Australia was a communist country.'
Americans love shouting communism but I don’t think they actually know what it means. I saw a comment once “we hate communism here in the states, no one wants to turn out like Germany” hitler and communism is the biggest oxymoron ever 😂
Communism was a big political movement here in Australia, with the associated turmoil of twenties and thirties depression and later world events. It was alive and well and a part you could vote for well into the fifties, maybe later. Thing is, there was a push to ban Communism, but in a democracy worth its salt, how can you bans a party that runs and exists. If the population demands Communism or Fascism... and votes it in....... So the Communists became a real party. They just faded out as the more mainstream left wing policies addressed the most pressing grievances. In Australia we can have guns, can vote communist, have free medical, public housing , lots of social pensions, unlimited unemployment benefits (and low unemployment) a month of holidays, two weeks sick ( i believe.. some professions like teaching have more), Wages are set as "living wages" and even the scam "contractor wages" and "forever casuals" being banned. I have not noted any gross limitations on free speech bar via US dominated social media which is far far right fascist. Vast majority go home on the bell, have a 40 hour week , down to 35 hr week and 9 day fortnights. Some allow you to work overtime for more holidays.
@@Shell2164A.H. was shrewd. He called his party the National Socialists to fool the voters and as soon as he gained power he showed his true fascist colours. In Ukraine, Zelensky's platform was to end the civil w*r, but as soon as elected he repudiated this promise. He has suspended elections indefinitely. Be careful what you wish for.
The irony is that the true meaning of communism, not the corrupt Russian version, is prevalent in America in the ford of communities such as the Amish where everyone works for the common good regardless of status.
You don't want them to be educated, because the "perfect soldier" (like Reese from Malcom in the Middle) is one who doesn't think and follows instructions. You bind the "perfect soldier" with the pledge of allegiance to your nation and without thinking and only following your instructions you have your perfect machine/roboter which you can use in any way you like. Let them work at minimum wage in factories and big stores or let them work for little money as waiters where the customer has to pay with a tip from his own little money he earned working 40-50 h a week. And when the real soldiers surprisingly survive and are now veterans, you can ignore them and let them sleep on the sidewalk in the streets. And for the illusion of freedom, let them have their (toy) guns. This is the american dream. America f yeah! 🦅
Socialized health care : In the US, the message is that socialized healthcare tells you which doctor you can go see and which one you can't. But wait ... isn't that exactly what happens in the States ? Doesn't your insurance company tell you which doctors are part of their network, and therefore which one's you have to see if you want to be covered ? Here in France, every doctor is covered by public health insurance. You can choose ANY doctor and you'll be covered. Bad, bad, bad socialized health care taking away your freedom ? BS !
no, I can go to any doctor I like here in Oz. Surgery is different. If you pay a top up you can choose surgeons etc, but somehow you then just get on a pay pay pay cycle. You get sick, its free.
Heh, I can go see any doctor I want to. I can slso use an app to do it. I go to a private clinic - and guess what? There's no difference in how much I pay, because my Swedish "medicare" is payed to the doctor I go to.
Here in the UK we chose our own doctor. If you need to see a doctor if you're ill far from home, you are treated and your registered doctor is informed of the treatment you received. This is still free under the system.
In Poland we have clinics covered by public healthcare (NFZ) and some not covered private companies. Works like a charm. If you need something important asap - you can go to NFZ clinic, if you need some routine thing sometimes - you can also use NFZ services. But if you have something not important, but you need it asap - go to private clinics
As a now Danish, Public Pensioner, I had 6 weeks paid for Vacation each year, and we have Tax-paid for (Not at all "Free"!) Doctors and Hospitals. If I need a Heart Transplant, it won't cost me, because a lot of people pay a minor sum (only if I need to take care of my teeth, I pay a minor part still!). And we don't pay for Schools or University (Pupils get public support and may achieve inexpensive loans). And till the sixties, Danish Police didn't even have a gun, only a baton. Finn. Denmark
I am European and 81 years old. I always looked up to the USA, untill I travelled two months by bus through various estates. I saw that the poor people in the USA were much more miserable than in the EU, social housing was a disaster and people living and begging in the streets was a shame. Where are the opportunities for these people? The EU was created to facilitate travel, exchange of goods and for all, to help each other to develop. All the countries of the EU got help to develop their economy, to improve infrastructure, schooling and health care. Now I can travel to any country of EU whiteout passport and go to a hospital without paying anything extra. What has USA done for their country or their neighbors to have earned so much credit? Instead of stupid border restrictions , who talkes about plans to improve economies of neighbor countries to prevent migration? NEVER. Politics are more stupid in USA than anywhere and Trump is the living evidence. Better vote 🗳️ 🗳️🗳️
So true that not many Americans know about Europe. When driving from Canada to the US I informed a US border guard that I was from the UK and he didn't know what that meant. I had to tell him it was England, Great Britain and the Unitd Kingdom before he cottoned on.
In Poland, we have 26-35 days of vacation (obligatory = if you don't use it, it's lost), in addition, we get a bonus of about $200-300 for the holidays, and sick leave is paid in 80% (without limit). Weekends are charged additionally. Healthcare and education (including university studies) for free. Many medicines for people over 70 are also free.
That's a universal concept, but then, I don't blame the politician, I blame the people, after all, governments and politician are a reflection of the public, at least in a democracy where we put them there, we as voters do a really poor job in electing people that actually serve the public interest, also, it's very easy for them to divide the public and get us fighting among ourselves, something we are seeing a lot of across Europe and North America right now, and it's only the public that pays the price in the end, as we found out with Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US and likely to find out with the far right in Europe over time.
The Brits complain like hell about the NHS because as Joel said, no system is perfect. I think most people complain about most things when it is all they have known BUT go live in another country where the situation is do much worse (or expensive) & you are afraid to get ill & then you realise the NHS is a true blessing. I am diabetic, have kidney & thyroid issues. I have multiple Sr appts. See consultants, have scans & x rays, bloods drawn regularly, expensive medicines & l do not pay a penny. That for me is the biggest thing to be thankful for EVER.
I am also an American who is living in Europe. The most important delusion I had before I lived here, was that there is not enough wealth for everyone to have affordable health care, a decent place to live, and enough expendable income to do things like travel. I used to think you had to choose 2 of those, but all 3 are just impossible. But in Western Europe, all 3 are common, and in countries quite a bit less rich than the USA. "They must be communist or socialist!" you say? No, I can start a business easily here, arguably more easily than in the USA. The downside is, taxes are quite a bit higher. But, unless you are one of the very few who is lucky enough to die all at once from a heart attack, WE WILL ALL need a lot of expensive medical care at some time in our lives. The financial catastrophe of medical care in American, even with great insurance, is more than enough to compensate for the low taxes. There are other benefits to living in a society with a better safety net, which are more difficult to explain. For example, I never understood the residual fear and desperation that the majority of Americans felt, until I lived somewhere for a while that doesn't have that. There is more, but I have said too much already.
Just take a good look into the comparative costs of childbirth. There is a very good video about comparing those costs for the USA and Germany by Type Ashton. And another of the general medical costs.
I guess it helps that I see what my taxes are paying for. I live in the Netherlands and whenever I visit another country I'm glad to see my taxes at use. Sure, it's high, but it's worth it. Car ownership is expensive here, but potholes are basically unheard of. When I go to Belgium I can feel when I cross the border, because the quality of the road decreases significantly. Of course my country isn't perfect, but I gladly pay my taxes.
As an Australian, who has been a YHA member, since 1991 - and who survived rural/backward Australia for decades, by utilizing the Network in Australia - I got to meet mostly European backpackers, including Germans and their general knowledge, let alone geographical knowledge, is impressive, so is their maturity. Australians, who have a FAR bigger barrier, distance wise and dollar exchange rate BIG disadvantages, seem to have no problem knowing and understanding Europeans and Americans. It certainly appears to be an American thing. Some countries with propaganda and restrictions - such as Russia and China, also seem to know more about their outside world. The US, without this and even with trade, diplomatic and Defence personnel movement, still is very ignorant of the outside world. This is absolutely ridiculous. If the "average" American was fully aware of actual life in other countries and their psyche, I'm sure the psyche of US Society, would be much better. The current trump situation and it's followers prove this, with their insular and aggressive stance. Joel, is refreshingly not part of this lunacy, and can see the world correctly. 😊
Donald Trump said “God alone” saved his life from an assassination attempt, as he called Americans to unite against political violence. What a hypocrite. But as far as our colonialism is concerned, all European nations who had a navy were doing this. UK, France, Spain. Portugal, Holland Belgium, Italy and later Germany, who started late in the "race for Africa". It's just that the Royal Navy was often the largest. But at least the UK were the first to ban slavery and intercepted American slave ships who were continuing this. America itself is a colony, well it was a colony until they stopped calling it one after the War of Independence. They were part of the European settlers who killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in North America, plus (Latin America) and large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate. They have also involved themselves in the 20th and 21st century wars more than any other country, either direct or covert. They have always made sure that a right-wing leader or dictator was in power in Latin America. The Middle East is in turmoil, all started on a lie. The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history. The United States Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theatres of WW2 II. There's a book called by James W. Loewen "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" . The treatment of black GIs in WW2 and Vietnam is seldom mentioned. I've been to the USA 6 times in different regions, mostly California, and I'm really surprised about the basic lack of knowledge regrading history there is there. I think most history is taken from Hollywood such "The Patriot" or "U-571". If this is critized, one will read "it's only a movie". Several years ago I was twice in Russia...different cities (Moscow and Novosibirsk) and the opposite was the case.. I was surprised how much they knew about world history, and most of all, how many despised their own government and said it quite openly. PS The pass-control is much simpler at Moscow airport than it is going thru those insulting TSA idiots.
Switzerland 🇨🇭 has more guns per capita than the US with almost zero gun violence. The violence part of guns are all in the us culture. This is because every grown man who did military service in Switzerland keep their automatic rifles at home
Idiots still want to live in Wild west, half of the population can so so read, critical thinking is from some Qanon site or far rigth bullshit media. As this all is not enough big part of people twisted God and his son to all this mess. Start with education and common sens,good luck.
But in Switzerland the owners (holders in the case of army rifles) are properly trained according to law and people with psychiatric problems do not have the right to hold a weapon...
Greetings from the UK. I hope America appreciates that it is people like you who prevent people here from despising Americans as a whole. We have crazy right-wingers who love your crazy right-wingers but lots of folk here think everyone over there is a crazy right-winger. Keep it real, question what you are told and fight the good fight.
Waking up is painful..but the pain will disappear..you are on a good way to wake up..when you are awaken it is difficult to manipulate you..you can go your own way..and thats freedom...
Those whom rule the USA make sure Nothing changes towards a European way of doing things. This is directly or indirectly in their own intrest. You guys are being trained by TV and Internet to be a good consument, actually look at your society from a distance and the words of economical slavery comes to mind.... since the big companies have you framed in working at those big companies and purchase from these companies and everything, I mean everything is a market....and you as a person are expendable... you're worth nothing to those big companies, except for making them money by working for them and purchasing their products. We in Europe make sure no single (USAmerican) company will ever get the power they have in the USA, which frustrates American companies trying to set foot on European soil. They can, but under stringent European law in which customers are protected against the practices of what USAmerican companies are allowed to mangle their customers in the USA. Ask all big companies which tried to do so and failed here in Europe.
Yes, but engagement has waned quite a bit in Europe. Plus, why do you think the EU was set up? By the same owners, to create a conduit for the same behaviour that drives the corporates in the US....
It's capitalism, they've let it take such a hold in the US that the government seems too weak when it comes to fighting corporations, so much so that the EU is having to do it because the US isn't willing or isn't capable of doing it. Which is ironic, because in the US, they are giving too much power to corporations whiles at the same time reducing powers of the government, it's like trading in democracy for many smaller dictators that the people have no representation, which could eventually end up with the US running full steam ahead into a Blade Runner like future that the government is powerless to prevent corporations from doing what they want and corporations run everything, I highly doubt that will happen in other modern countries, but it wouldn't surprise me if it does in the US with how the system is set up in favour of corporations, which could be dangerous long term to give them so much power.
In the UK, you can choose to express yourself in any way (that isn't illegal) if you want to BUT not with impunity. It does not free you from the consequences of your chosen words or actions. Behave as you please but remember so can everyone else - you can (peacefully) share your opinion, but people can (peacefully) share their opinion of your opinion..... Choose wisely... Lol!
Please Americans, stay where you are, carry on believing your country is the best! Do not come running here and imposing your ideas on us. We embrace true freedom, we love our social system, do not Want to adopt your passion for capitalism, there is more to life! Make changes to your country!
Hi from an Australian living in Europe.You are so correct.My American friends are always apologising for their ignorance & lack of knowlege of basically any country outside of USA ~& constantly shocked WE KNOW more about USA~ it's history, the US Constitution, Executive Legislative & Judicial Systems, political processes/electoral systems, (+ geography) etc than they do. We constantly wonder what children there actually ARE taught in school, because it certainly doesn't appear to be languages (*other than "American" >??🤔 ..🤭).. either .
I've often wondered what American actually do learn in school. As you say, it's not languages and not history or geography either. Yesterday I watched two American teenagers that popped up in my feed that had never heard of the Holocaust.
I guess they teach in school how great and wonderful the USA is, that the USA is the only free country in the entire world. And last but not least how to use firearms. Perhaps a little reading, writing and maths.
The language is not even American. It is a very poor version of English. The only American languages that I have heard of are Native American languages.
I live in a flat owned by a housing association. It's beautiful, it's on the edge of a lovely park, and the properties on the same estate sell for nearly £1m. I love where I live and feel very lucky.
Ive actually listened to a documentary on homelesness years ago that brought up the topic of social housing. It pretty much stated that social housing that functions to segregate and keep people away without giving them a chance to buy the home that they stay in, is never anywhere near as sucsessful as a social housing program that lets you live in a normal residential area with good diversity with the ability to buy/pay back the home you live in in the long term. It also showed that most developed nations have similar relative levels of homelessness but its the functionional social safety net that we have in most european nations that has allowed us to escape the considerable soxial and economic burdens of increased crime and the like that normally occur with the increase of homelessness, by taking care of those people. As a side note, my best friend's grandparents were homeless and without the strange form of social housing that they got from the church in cyprus in the 1940s to 50s, they never would have gotten their lives around to start a family, they both still lived in that home till they passed away in their late 80s early 90s a year ago. Its interesting to note that systems like that existed even way back then with the church helping people in smaller communities.
@momtchilboshniakov290 You are right in much of what you said but social housing doesn't just exist to house homeless people. It came about as a concept over a century ago as an alternative to private landlords because their was a recognition that most people (then majority renters) weren't served well by private renting. As we can see today with rents rising as a proportion of people's incomes (some above 50%) that the issues still exist. Social housing doesn't exist to make a profit essentially - merely provide high quality housing that is low cost. It used to be for everyone that needed it in my country until the right wingers got control.
@@richardmadden8742I think it is just becoming too expensive to build. And with the price of houses rising so much you have more and more people needing social housing
My grandma just had 2 strokes at the age of 98. The Doctors did everything in their power to safe her... and they did. She's back at home and relatively fine. Here are no panels. ;)
There was however a large controversy in the UK about the Liverpool care pathway, and it was hyped up in the conservative press at the time, as a death panel. Now, all the pathway was about was palliative care for elderly people who were dying / close to death. Such as Do not resuscitates and how to care for someone at the end of their life. The media turned it into 'your granny / granddad will not be saved' etc... Which was not the case.
@lorrainewhitehead9080 my mother was one of them. She was unconscious, so did she know she was hungry or thirsty?? I still think of this 12 years later...
@@dianeleitch Ask any hospice nurse who cares for the end of life patients. The body begins to shut down naturally, so forcing fluids and food into them, will just cause the body to swell and cause pain and discomfort if they're conscious. At that point, they aren't aware of hunger or thirst because the body doesn't need food or water.
As a citizen of the United States I can testify that we are the best at claiming our country is the greatest country in the world. We claim it more often than any other citizen of every nation in the world, even more often than North Koreans. Sometimes we use a short cut because we can't fit enough praise in a given time to please our nationalist egoes . And we chant USA USA USA in some sort of religious stupor.
Your indoctrinated to a false idea the best way to do it is keep repeating it and eventually you belive and Americans fall for it and belive and happily repeat it with smiles on their faces you don't see the north Koreans smiling
Way back when I was at my junior school1965. I had black, indian,Pakistani and even a,Chinese friend. We all went to the same state school. Multi cultural,multi religious, and I was an atheist by the time I was 11
The polce will only get involved if you make a public disturbance of it. Even kids by the age of 16 are allowed to drink beer and wine. Police may check their IDs, but as long as you are 16 or above nothing comes of it if you behave peacefully! Okay, not Jan6-peacefully obviously!
@@priceprice_baby when the game is rigged ( aka the politicians decide who we can vote for), you claim that voting for Mao will will make problems for Hitler, but not voting for Mao , is helpful for Hitler? They are both working for the ruling class, they both want the same thing, just done in a different way. So you voting, is you saying " ok, I will obey the ruling class, they own me". Not voting says " I will not play your game"- If enough people refused to vote for terrible people.. we might get somewhere.
Nah they can choose between a criminal that want to become a dictator and already have the high court in his hands or a old man that is not capable anymore? Why there are not young people to vote for?
@@Goldenhawk583 Democracy is not free, it's not a right, it's a privilege won by generations that died for it in the past. If you stop fighting for democracy and your right to vote you're enabling dictators and would be kings to rise to power. I know that the US has two horrible candidates this year, Trump the racist and anti women rights candidate that wants to end democracy and Biden the demented idiot that is too proud to stand down and let a candidate with a working brain run against Trump. Staying home and not voting will leave you with one or the other in charge of your life. Biden is old and too proud to step down but he doesn't want to end democracy in the US, Trump is old and admires Putin's Russia and how Putin has avoided free elections and held the power since the late 90's. There's a lesser of two evils here, the one that doesn't want to enslave you for life...
experiencing the pledge of allegiance for the first time as a young german transfer student was WILD. i was lowkey a little afraid, it felt like watching a history documentary. i didn't know if i was allowed to do the same motion or what was expected of a foreigner to do in that situation. and the procedure seemed so practiced and normal for everyone, it was like in star wars or something haha
One big issue in the US is that schools are funded by local taxes, often property taxes. A rich neighborhood gets good schools. A poor neighborhood doesn't.
Make America great again! I love to visit the USA, but no chance I'd live there. I come from the UK but now live in Germany. Health care and holiday entitlement is high on my list. NO person should be refused directly or via payment to get health care. Your generation needs to fight for health care for all and 30 days holiday.
I was born in Europe and recently had back surgery. The whole thing cost me maybe 110 euros. And I was sick for 5 weeks, so I wasn't at work. I still have my job and am currently in physiotherapy. I'd be really interested to know what it would have cost me in the USA. Health should be a human right. I feel really sorry for people who are in debt because of it.
I'm from Ecuador, in South America, and workers have at least 15 days of paid vacation a year. It's the law. Teachers, other people working in education usually have a month of paid vacation. I can't understand why the US is so different in that matter.
Well done young man .Keep your mind open and hopefully other young people will educate themselves and see through the bullshit. I’ve been visiting America for 50 years and I won’t be back. Things are pretty bad there now and god help you in the future.
European employers want to have happy employees because they are much more productive. And how often I heard on US media something like 'Imagine having to live in Europe where they have no freedom of speech'. No, we have freedom of expression which is a much broader concept and is not limited to speech only. I remember the Red Hot Chili Peppers on tour in the Netherlands surprised they could simply insult our queen and make rude sexual comments about her on public tv, the interviewer explained: 'yes you can, but you don't have to' and he followed up with: don't you have freedom of speech in the US? And the guy answered: yes but it seems we got the limited version. 😆
yeah the US has freedom of speech, that's why they have to bleep out half of the dictionary on shows/movies/songs/games/RUclips etc. while in (most of) Europe we can say almost everything on almost every type of media. (just don't overdo it or do it just to hurt someone)
Well to be fair freedom of expression has also really suffered in the last few years under the "anti"-racists. You can be charged for saying "thats a good one" to a racist joke, but others are allowed to hunt you down and beat you up without consequences just cause you have the "wrong" skin color. Its absurd
I watch a channel that reads court documents, and they have to censor themselves because RUclips would ban them for using bad words. You propably can't even read a biology book without getting a strike.
Don’t exaggerate Europeans employers aren’t that different from the USA ones but unlike the USA most Europeans governments put guidelines in places for business to follow also because of our long history is still a kind “recent” event and they are trying take away the things we have taken for granted
I like International Carl, I've watched a few of his videos. The news is that America is not the home or only host of freedom. Remember who gave you the statue of liberty.
Our healthcare system here in Slovakia has many problems. But when you have, for example, a heart attack, the insurance company will fully pay you 3-weeks of spa treatments in one of our many spa centers with rehabilitation, natural thermal waters, different procedures, resting etc. Once or twice a year. The more serious your health problem is (= the more heart attacks you have), the more benefits you have, and with your normal, general insurance as everyone else has, which is 50€ in average monthly. What death panels are they even talking about. 😭
I got treated for cancer in Ireland last year. I was kept in hospital for a month. I received full health care, multiple tests. Total cost to me: zero. I live in a country where almost all police are unarmed, where everyone working is guaranteed three weeks off a year. There has never been a school shooting. We never do any pledging allegiance stuff. Most people vote in elections. I like the US but I am glad I don't live there.
And here in Ireland you can get health insurance which helps get tests quicker or get into one of the private hospitals but we have "community rating" which means everybody pays the same regardless of age, previous history, etc.
One minor correction. By law everyone is entitled to a minimum of 20 days per year. The typical large US company, of which there are many, give 25 to 28 days per annum.
Many Americans dont know was the different between the EU und Europe is. As well that the european Continent is much larger then the US. My American Friend how is living here in Europe said, I have more Freedom here in Europe then in my counriy, how tells the world we are the land of free. 😂😂🤣 He said, i see no reason to go back to the US. .
With "Europe" it is the same as with "America". Meaning the EU many just say Europe, just as e.g. North America is not only the US, but also Canada and yesss Mexico as well! OMG I think we gotta call the police ...😂😂😂
The US Constitution from 1791 was once great in the !8th, 19th and early 20th century. But now it´s totally outdated. No word about human dignity. Freedom? it's only Freedom to .... but no Freedom from. The second amendment shows the dilemma too: the right of the people to keep and bear weapons is connected to a militia that was necessary for a free (federal) State in the late 18th and 19th century. The Militia is long gone, but people still carry weapons. If the people fail to adjust their constitution in peace, the adjustment will come nevertheless, but it will be cruel.
And somehow those people clamoring about the Second Amendment always forget (or deliberately leave out) the "well regulated" part. As for me, I will uphold The Right To Arm Bears.
I hope you are slowly realising just how third world the USA actually is. Dreadful lack of health care, extremely poor education system, huge homeless population, shortly to be persecuted for sleeping rough, virtually non-existent public transport system, and appalling policing (protect and serve? what a joke!) Oh and I had forgotten about the "pledge of allegiance" that kids are forced to recite in school (sounds like something you might expect in a country like North Korea).
@@heldertorres4296 or they can move to UK or Ireland... Or Cyprus (I know Latvian lady who lived there for years and have only very basic greek). But that's right. Learn local language, in most cases you will need it sooner or later
@@stannumowl I'm used to speak multiple languages my country has 3 different languages...and I do travel a lot..so I always try to learn the language . And most European people will speak in English to you until they notice your living in the country and not in Holliday .. There they will get annoyed if you don't make an effort ..what's normal
According to the data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the average salary of a doctor in the US is around $313,000 per year, which is significantly higher than the average salary of a doctor in the UK, which ranges from £80,000 to £150,000 per year.
hahahah yes the US police state.. I found out the hard way in Hawaii, I had no idea what the police were even on about. US police are also often thugs, pull a gun and put on cuffs for a bad haircut
@@macdieter23558 Switzerland is one of the most armed countries in the world and yet it is one of the safest countries, maybe the problem is not with the weapons but with other things?
... or have a beer while walking on the street. I don't want to blame the US, I think the people in every country should decide how they want to live, and these decisions vary from place to place. On the (in)famous 6th Street in Austin, TX - I liked that place very much - I attempted to carry my half full (plastic!) glass of beer on my way to the next venue. The bouncers stopped me politely to perform the legal violation of drinking beer on the street in a crazy night life district...😂
My country has guns but it’s mostly old people with hunting riffles. Russia,france,Germany have a lot of guns , most per capita is serbia,montenegro,cyprus,Finland,Austria ect Even Canada the usa neighbors have a lot of guns with less cr1me
Here's a simple explanation for communism, socialism and capitalism: Communism: A single party controls the country and everything in it. The populace owns nothing. Socialism: A democratic elected goverment controls the most necessary stuff (such as public transport and healthcare) whilst regulating corporations extort the populace. The populace is taxed (sometimes heavily), but owns their stuff. Capitalism: Corporations control the goverment, and money means everything. The populace thinks they own their stuff, but are in reallity renting it from the coeporations/banks.
as for "Socialism =regulating corporations extort the populace," I do not agree that has anything to do with the Socialist manifesto. I agree with everything else though.
What needs to be said about the 20 to 25 days of vacation: These are WORKING days, which means monday to friday. So 20 days make 4 (7 day) weeks, 25 days make 5 (7 day) weeks. And it becomes more with age. Above approx. 50 y.o.a. you reach 30 days (6 weeks) of yearly vacation. Additional there is a rule that one of the vacations has to be 3 weeks or longer! If, for some reason, you are unable to take the vacation days, you get it payed out, so at least you are financially compensated! You don´t get a number of sick days. If you´re sick, you´re sick. If you are sick longer than 3 days you need to send your employer a doctor´s note, but that´s it!
I hope not to offend, your English is fantastic as an obvious EAL person. But if I might educate you on your use of "payed", the correct form in this context is "paid". Payed is a word, but it relates to sailing, not to money. :)
Years ago I lived in the United States for six months. People were very kind to me, but I noticed that the TV coverage of the rest of the world was remarkably limited.
Years ago I watched an edition of the American ABC World News on the BBC News channel and of the half hour broadcast only 2 minutes was about news outside the USA and even that was about Americans!
5 weeks paid holiday in Norway. Free hospitals. Max payment (roof) for your GP is a bit more than USD 200 / year. Most medications you need to live and function are subsidized. We don't pay a separate social security, or private insurance companies for medical or dental care. Kindergarten has a max price of USD 180/month. And most are large kindergartens with educated employees (3-5 years specialization for most of them). Schools are completly free. You can still chose private schools, but they are generally not better than free public schools. If you get sick, and can't work, you are entitled 1 year full pay. From second year you get (i think) 66% of previous salary. Tax rates are higher than the US, but you get something for your moneys. We are no 1 in the world on the press freedom index, before Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and Finland. The US is no 55 on the same index. The US has 531 incarcerated people per 100.000 Norway has 55 incarcerated people per 100.000. Gun homocides pr 100k for USA: 6,1. Gun homocides pr 100k for Norway: 0,2 (30 times more likely to witness or dies in gun violence in the US than in Norway) Traffic deaths pr 100k USA: 12,8 Traffic deaths pr 100k Norway: 2 USA - around 50% of kids attend sports (6-9 yo) Norway: 64% girls, 68% boys, and 76% of kids in Norway play sports between ages 9-15. (Around 53,8% of US kids attend sport between ages 6-17). Average lifespan is longer in Norway than in the US. Why would we want to move to the US?
Im 59. Im Danish. I lived in America for 38 years. Legally. Had to throw that in. I returned to Denmark 2 years ago. Early this year I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I pay 39 % of my income in taxes before my personal deduction. Due to my ra I have been to many doctor vists including specialist. Blood work, x rays, bone scanning. I havent seen one bill and I wont. I dont mind the taxes at all. I have had to go on partial sick leave at the moment. I still get paid full salary. I dont mind the taxes I am paying. I am entitled to 6 weeks paid vacation. I am pleased with my union. I recently noticed I had gotten a pay raise. Once again I am pleased with my union. If I had been in America still, I would have been unemployed, in debt and probably on the verge of being homeless. Once again, I am happy to pay my taxes. It is soooo worth it. Ihave a nice place to live and I wont loose it. I can eat every day with no worries. You couldnt pay me to move back to America.
So let me get this correct; You lived in the US for 38 years. You weren’t paying taxes in Denmark to support their health care system in all that time. However, now you have Rheumatoid Arthritis, you now expect the Danish tax payers to pick up your health care bill? Have you no shame? I appreciate you’ve not done anything ‘wrong’ but I still wouldn’t expect you to be bragging about how you’re stuffing your fellow countrymen.
@@SuperJinxter It's a matter of luck (or, in this case, bad luck) . You never know what will happen in the future, and it is no different than changing your home insurance a year before your house is visited by burglars. Being retired myself, with RA, I can say that for the past ten years my visits to physicians have been limited to renewed prescriptions. But before diagnose, I was seeing doctors way more than I liked.
@@SuperJinxter Wow. That is what you got from my comment? Really? Maybe Im proud of living in a country that actually treats its people well. For your info, I paid taxes for several years here before I ended up in America. I have also paid taxes since I came back. Still do. I didnt ask to get sick. I would much prefer to be healthy. I paid taxes for many years in America and quite frankly didnt get much in return. Health insurance is pretty steep in the states which you have to pay for too unless you get lucky to work for a company that offers it. But we both know they dont all do that. I know people who quite frankly ended up struggling with medical bills despite having health insurance. The system is the way it is here. Do you want me to ask for a bill from the hospital? I could try but I think they would look at me weird. So yes, I am proud to know that my birth country treats its people well.
I’m glad you’re happy living in a country that treats you well. A country that you turned your back on for 38 years, until it became too expensive to continue to do so. And I read you’re happy now paying taxes because of what you’re getting back. I’m not surprised. I wish you well in your health issues but bragging about what you get when you’ve contributed little, is a bit much. We have the wonderful NHS in the UK and it’s quite a point of irritation that ‘ex-pats’ have moved abroad 20-30years ago, but are now back in the UK, purely for medical treatment. Do you really think that’s fair on everyone else who has paid taxes into the health care system, all their lives? As I said, I wish you well but think it’s crappy that you’re bragging.
I taught in London from as early as 1970. I don't ever remember teaching a class that wasn't mixed ethnically. Come to think of it, my first class as a five year old in 1957 was mixed too. It was a bit of a shock when I moved to a rural area where I had an all white class for the first year, it was wierd felt unbalanced somehow.
Good luck. The way things are going in the US right now, it will take 60 more years before your generation comes into power, and I don't want to think of what's left at that time.
@@vg7985 as in Americans have the freedom TO choose bankruptcy or death for not being able to pay your medical bills. In Europe, we're free FROM that choice.
Dude… you are right next to Canada. We still have many issues that we need to address but, my impression is that socially, we are at a mid point between the US and many European countries. I’m 62 and I have never paid to see a doctor in my life. Dentist? Yes, we don’t have socialized dental care yet, although we have just brought it in for seniors.
I had major brain surgery as well as two subsequent surgeries due to complications. I paid a total of $500 for these three surgeries. The meds I took for a few weeks afterwards were very expensive ($1000). I paid $8 for them. I am very grateful to live in Europe.
The healthcare is crazy. I remember a story of a student in USA, who died because they couldn't afford insuline and started reducing doses. Meanwhile my family gave insulin to our old dog every day because he had diabetes. It was like 10 euros a week.
That last point is very true, if I hear a president say loudly god save america, or the best country on earth, I feel a shiver in my back, because we europeans now how dangerous those words are, patriotisme is a familie of nationalism, and we now what can happen. And that americans do not want to pay health ensuring for their fellow americans, is stupid, when someone is walking around their town realy sick, or begging on the walking side and can't go to a docter, it is dangerous for every body, not only for the sick person.
From the UK - the thing I cannot understand is your fear of "Socialism" and the connection you think it has to communism. One is a political indoctrination and the other for the greater good of society. Why do the US find this so difficult???
German. I have gained some good impression of some American politicians: Smart and level-headed people who - by all appearances - want to achieve something good for their country. Regardless of whether I agree with their opinions in detail or not, these are people worth arguing and discussing with. The problem is the other kind. The ones who want to distract attention from their own perfidy, contempt for humanity, criminal behavior and mafia behaviour by shouting BS.
I’m Dutch, and I like all the people in the world! You’re doing a great job with your videos, working to make positive changes in your country. Change takes time, and it’s good to see that you’re open-minded 😄🙏🏽 Maybe see you in Holland sometime!, I really don’t mind when people say “Holland” instead of “the Netherlands”😂
7:12 I used to work for one of the largest social housing companies in the south of England. The reason those estates look good is because the social landlord goes round and checks on all of their estates frequently, requesting tenants to clean things up when needed. There’s a lot of intervention that goes on to support people in their homes.
My ex husband is american - he had very frequent debilitating migrains. In the US, he was prescribed 6 different type of pills (some of which he had to take daily) in order for him to function, and some of them had side effects such as mood swings and depression. He then he moved in with me, in Germany, and we re-evaluated his care. Because he was my husband, my healthcare covered him completely before he even started working here. We went to multiple specialists and ALL of the pills that were given to him in the US were deemed to be treatments of symptoms and not removing any of the causes (that's how they make money, I guess). He was asked to stop taking all of his pills and they were replaced with ONE pill he had to take weekly and the problem was solved. 2 Doctors, 3 specialists, MRIs, brain scans, and the medication itself: my bill? 30 euros. You can call "Socialism" evil all you want (even though I truely believe that most americans confuse socialism with communism anyway and have no idea what they're saying) - but our socialism made a person that was on the point of being disabled to a productive member of society - and wouldn't that actually be something you want in a capitalist country full of consumerism ??? More healthy workers = better - no matter your way of leading a country.
Exactly. Socialism is the base of all successful countries. It's necessary for a happy people.
(But I'm a Swede so of course I agree with you).
America is not a country, it's a business.
Well that's not socialism per se but simply a society taking care of the sick. Besides it being the humane thing to do it is also checks and balances. America pretends to be a pure capitalist country but they're clearly not because otherwise they'd make the same calculation. America is a class society that thrives on segregation and sucking people dry. It has nothing to do with capitalism because it's only for the happy few. America is an amazing country to live in, when you're rich.
I'm Dutch by the way. We don't need a Nordic left system to take care of each other. It's perfectly possible to have a center right government and chamber and also accessible healthcare for everyone and the right to go and enjoy vacations and days off without losing your job and your insurance. All of society benefits when society has as many healthy workers as possible.
What is a "Nordic left system" an how does it differ from what you have in the Netherlands?
@@andersriksson100 The Netherlands has a long history of center right with swings to the left whereas the Nordic countries are seen as primarily left. That's why I called it that.
In Portugal we use to say " my freedom stops where my neighbor's freedom begins"...we are all free to live the way we wish to but respect and considering others is needed. Hope it makes sense to the Americans...
I live in Portugal for ten years now, coming here from Germany via Canada, where I lived and worked for 35 years. In both Portugal and Canada I found it easy to fit in, because of the sentiment you expressed. Having grown up in
Germany, especially in smaller towns and villages, the atmosphere could be quite repressive and unfriendly if your political and religious believes did not fit in.
That is something I did not encounter in the small communities I reside(d) in, both in Canada and Portugal, where especially in the latter people are reserved, but friendly towards the stranger. In Canada this reserve, that I much appreciate, is often lacking, and the friendliness can be overwhelming.
@@krautsky hope you are happy in Portugal and enjoying your life with joy and health! 🌸🌼
@@fernthurman5172 I agree with you say that it is/should be a principle of living in a democracy... If and whenever you'll come to Portugal I hope you "ll appreciate and enjoy the country and our way of living... Love and light to you and your partner! 🌸🌼
Same general principle in Germany. And I wholeheartedly agree with that notion. Peace and greetings to Portugal.
@@RustyDust101 it's a great principle 😊peace and greetings to you and Germany too🙏🕊️🌼
Speaking to an American about healthcare.
He said " That's communism, why should I pay for someone else's health".
I asked him who pays for your military. He said "we all do". So I asked him - is that communism then !
He changed his argument to - " it would be too costly".
I gave him a general idea of how much tax we pay compared to how much he pays for health insurance.
It is far, far, far cheaper than the American system. He said "where does all his money go then".
Into the pockets of billionaires, that's where it goes.
The US pays about 18% of GDP towards "health care", for a system that doesn't cover everyone .Here in Australia ,( and most of the rest of the world) approximately 9% of GDP goes towards a healthcare system that while not perfect , generally treats everyone reasonably well, you wont be kicked to the kerb because your insurer says no.
@@johnstirling6597 A very good friend’s American son in law had prostate cancer and wanted an additional scan, his insurance provider refused to pay, so he had to pay himself. Mt dear old mum had several scans towards the end of her life, no argument.
It is worth telling more Americans this fact. They DO in fact pay taxes towards a health care system in the restricted form of Medicare and Medicaid. The American system is so insanely costly to run that those taxes work out as being pretty much the same that Brits pay for a system that covers everyone because theirs is cheaper. It costs about $5,000 to provide an appendix operation in the UK compared to at least $40,000 in the USA. Then the Americans have to pay insurance and also pay bills because insurance doesn't cover 100%. So they are paying three times for something that still doesn't give universal cover. It's a scam.
Universal healthcare wouldnt work in the US because of the way it functions right now
But it is funny how many people are against universal healthcare but have health unsurance. Its literally the same thing but made to take as much money from you as they can
@@blotski
Something I like to point out, is that we in The UK aren't restricted to The NHS alone. We have the option of going with private healthcare/insurance if we want, just like America. The really interesting part is that the most minimal and basic level of healthcare in America *_somehow_* costs more than the high end, ultra-luxurious private care available here - the kind of care where the hospital seems more like a five star resort, or private members club.
In The UK, if we choose private healthcare we still pay *_less_* and get *_more_* than Americans do.
Three hundred dollarbucks for a single Tylenol tablet? Five hundred for an IV stand that you don't even get to _keep?_
There's no way to make that make sense.
Here in the ancient, creaky, rainy old UK; a general election was called then one month later after some modest campaigning we all voted (4th July) and the next day a new government was installed. No £100m campaigns. No rallies. No attempts to remove ballot options or intimidation at voting stations. No attempted coup or storming of government buildings. The former prime minister apologised for not being good enough. From a country many see as crumbling & disfunctional. There's too much money to be made out of US politics, like every other aspect of US life. I feel sorry for the US population.
Yes, we are far from perfect but I do feel we are a fair nation and we fume at insincerity and double standards. Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson springs to mind!
To be fair the lack of coup is probably down to the lack of competence.
But remember the foreign secretary Ms Braverman ☠️ apologised for not being nasty enough 🫣
Gut gesprochen!
Rishi Sunak only apologised because he thought it made him look good.Instead of fake apologies why not do something to improve our country? Oh I forgot,that would require both caring and effort which seem to be things of which they are not capable.
One huge freedom we have in Europe, Scandinavia, Japan etc is we don’t have religion shoved down our throats, you know, like America and most Muslim countries.
You can add many countries around the world to that... Where religion is not shoved down your throat.. Places where all religions are tolerated. Even in some predominantly Muslim countries in Asia. Americans are just generally ignorant - a function of their society?
98.8% Of Americans are in to religion because they are young and still have that knowledge they took with them. Europe is thousands upon thousands of years old and we have had enough of the Pope, Church and all that crud. Give the US another 1000 or so years, they will also be fed up with all the poverty, wars and hatred that comes with Religion.
Why do you say Europe and then Scandinavia as if Scandinavia isn't in Europe?
You didn't visit any eastern european country and it shows
@PolskiYoshi I didn't mention those countries for exactly that reason. Your point is?
I never understood how Americans can make their children say a "pledge of allegiance". This was done here in Germany in the 1930´s and is considered as indoctrination since.
Fun fact: a pledge of allegiance is something you find only in countries with dictators or in communist countries. Thinking that the USA fights against communists but has a pledge of allegiance this country must be a dictatorship like North Korea. At least if Trump becomes President again.
You obviously weren't educated about the differences between the Third Reich and American democracy. This comparison bears witness to an ignorant mind.
@@olika9076please elaborate. Who's the one with the ignorant mind?
@@olika9076The typical response of someone that was indoctrinated
@@olika9076 Hitler was democratically elected. But my question is why the daily pledge? Are Americans too stupid to remember they made the pledge the day before or does an American pledge only last 24 hours?
"the land of the free"
"No one is more a slave than he who thinks he is free without being so..."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
@@hneemann Mark Twain~
"It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled"..he must have had a premonition of the political trajectory of America (since 2016).😉
How are Americans not free?
Trivial example of 'freedoms' in the USA - you can't gamble online in California! Bizarre!
@@Knightowl1980 You are free. Free to succeed or fail. Some would love that freedom, many more will suffer. A society that benefits the winner and penalizes the loser. That is US freedom. And that is the part where your freedoms actually exist. The US has tons of numbing regulations and strange laws. But the most insane part is that this freedom myth is sold as the greatest thing on earth.
@@baskoller5506 no one’s punishing you though. And a Society and businesses need regulation to protect the public and business. Yeah is some of it dumb but that’s bc we never revisit the laws and regulations we make to see if they’re still necessary. You shouldn’t be able to do whatever the fk u want if it puts the public’s health, safety and economically at risk
I am a UK citizen (born and bred, as it happens)
I have to pay for socialised medicine
NHS has fixed the throat cancer for me (didn't pay for that) but every three months I have to go to the hospital for check up.
Costs me £5.60, return, on the train. Plus an espresso.
The stress that takes out of life is enormous.
A wee bit tax is worth it.
Close friend of the family has been breast cancer free for a year now, paying for parking at the hospital was the most expensive part of it, about £4 a visit think it cost her about £80 total over a year of treatment.
@@minmo2288 NHS would pick me up, but it takes a lot of waiting and anyway the train is pleasant, there is a bit of walking which is good exercise, and the espresso is not the best, but serviceable. Not a bad deal for my taxes.
Wishing you and yours all the best
@@chrissaltmarsh6777. Absolutely! I'm 73 and a congenital heart defect has caught up with me in my golden years. I don't have to worry about a thing. I take 7 different kinds of medication which I don't pay for and I am looked after by the cardiology department in a world-famous teaching hospital where I get the very best of care whenever I need it. I started work at 16 years old, retired at 67 years old. I am grateful that I could pay towards my care through my taxes throughout my life. It's a much better way than being sick and suffering because medical care is held to financial ransom as it is in the US.
NHS Hospital will refund travel and parking for low-income patients.
I'm British and go every year to Tampa to see my friend. A few years back, he was on a step ladder in his beautiful home, replacing a bulb when he fell and hit his head on some furniture. At the hospital, he was not responding well and was eventually diagnosed with partial brain damage. He was released from the hospital nine months later and now needs help at home for the rest of his life. He and his family are now living in a small flat in a dodgy side of Tampa because he had to sell his home to pay his medical bills. His wife and two children no longer live the way they did, which he worked hard all his life to give them. The insurance company bled them dry and still give them worries of monthly bills they can't afford. I am so blessed to live in Britain knowing that if something like that happened to me, I would be taken care of without selling my home, or putting my hand in my pocket to pay anything. I'm angry to see a big, happy man like him lose his spirit to a point of deep disper and a family having their life torn apart by the greed of insurance companies. A lot of Americans are stuck with their jobs because they get health care from it. That's no way to live your life. Our real crown jewels is not in the tower of London, but is our National Health Service
This is the biggest thing I can't understand that americans want it this way for. You work your whole life to build a life for yourself and then you can lose it all just because you get sick, your job can fire you at will and the hospital bills takes everything from you.. what is it all for ?..
@@265petsar yet they continue to vote Republican and oppose ANY progress as "socialism"
Based on the political drift of the last election, that's coming to the UK. Streeting has had a LOT of money from fronts for US medical 'insurers',
I hereby appeal to your common sense: we (all inhabitants of this earth) should NOT want such abuses.
Let us do everything we can to avoid sliding into an Earth that will become a hostile place for this reason. Please boys and girls of this earth follow the motto of live and let live until life within reason is no longer worth living and let's stop the parasites (Big companies, governments, and politicians) who are only after one thing and that is living at the expense of the quality of life of the ordinary man (and woman) of this world society!
Americans live to work , Europeans work in order to live well.
Europeans have rights Americans have freedoms , i prefer to have rights .
The Constitution of the United States and its Amendments, is one of the greatest examples of Democracy in history. Unfortunately, rich people have bastardised it to its limits. So now, poor people have rights but only if they can afford them.
And hard won rights at that, the US at the moment looks and sounds like a madhouse with the far far right taking over the Supreme Court and going so far to the right its really really bad 1st taking away womans rights with Roe and now giving a potus a get out of jail free card which with a lunatic like trump around it's very bad news for the US itself last chance in Nov or the US will fall just like the USSR did, Russia and China are watching with glee while trump is turning your country into a battle field.
exactly. Freedoms can be removed or altered.
Europeans don't have rights. They're privileges.
In America you have the freedom to own and travel by car.
And if you don't have a car, or can't afford a car, you have the freedom to be severely restricted in your ability to move around.
Most Americans are in the dark about Europe in the same way the North Koreans are about the rest of the world.
I am of the opinion that if you want to look at a nation that is manipulated by politically motivated media, it is not North Korea, it is the USA.
I'm sorry to say.. I think USA citizens are lied to just as much as the citizens of North Korea. It's very sad.
Most Europeans are in the dark about the USA.
The big difference between the two is, that Americans have every right, freedom and possibility to educate themselves about Europe or anything else, whereas North Koreans are purposely hindered or even forbidden to do so.
@@Be-Es---___ oh.. you know most Europeans do you? The USA shouts about itself all over the world all the time.
As a 58 year old it is a privilege to watch your generation of Americans wake up, long after I'm gone you'll be in charge and with open eyes you are going to make the world a better place.
I love this comment, be the change you want to see in the world ❤️
Bullshit
@@lilmoyinyang5812 From the UK, I agree with you. I've seen and listened to the youth of America and am appalled at their ignorance and lack of education. Like their older generation, the know nothing outside of their own state borders, and generally don't seem tpo care. On that basis I can't see them make any changes whatsoever. The sad truth is that all over the world our nations are in decline. The world I live in now, is not the same world I born into; there is now no respect for man or beast, no love for or from a neighbour, and no care for anyone but themselves - a dogeat dog world where the only instinct is self-survival. I'm glad I'm close to my time on earth, for the freedoms and lifestyle my grandparents, my parents and myself have fought for, have all but disappeared for good, and anarchy reigns supreme. The human race is an abomination and getting worse.
@@lilmoyinyang5812 Let me ask you something: you are republican voter, you have a lot of money and a gun at home right? Continue living in your bubble. Do please not open your eyes how world can be better for everyone.
Hate to rain on your little parade here.. but it will be some Chinese dude that is in charge. They own over 20% of your country already and it grows by the day. And they're smart. They have realised that war is bad for business and just cost a lot of money. Better to stealthily buy up the place by lending money and invest in businesses.
I have been 5 weeks in the US for training some time ago and I was struck by the things you heard actually happening to you. Some examples:
- being halted by the police while walking to a restaurant and getting the question: "Why are you walking here".
- Getting all day long the: "How are you" with a big smile while not being interested at all in you.
- Everything has to be done by car.
- Signs on door stating: "No guns allowed inside the premises".
- Not being able to take a walk in the evening around the hotel.
- Asking people directions and then get completely ignored.
- Having big malls outside the city. There was both8ng to do in the city so everyone got to those 3 big malls around the city.
- Ther heart-warming welcome at the airport with the special treatment line /s
- Being able to see what the political standings are of people just by watching television because the news companies are always tied to one of the political spectrums.
- And people indeed having no clue what is happening in the rest of the world...
At first I thought it couldn't be that bad but it was all confirmed in just a couple of weeks...
Yes, the US but following close behind Canada are one massive corporate cult machine.
Yes, freedom is to walk where I want without being suspicious
We have made the same experience in the US as you told
Well I was stopped by the police one time here in Sweden while out walking and being asked what I was doing so it's not only the US. It was in the middle of the night though and I was wearing a black hoodie and other dark clothes so I probably looked like a potential burglar! Once they saw me up close they left me alone but I have a slight suspicion that if I had been of a foreign ethnicity like from the middle east who knows what would have happened...
@@rubenpuls353 Or maybe they thought that you were a drug dealer. Because the description of the outfit kinda sounds like what they would stereotypically wear. Or the fact that you kinda were camouflage yourself in the night which can be suspicious for anyone.
"the American Dream: you have to be asleep to believe in it" - George Carlin
In the UK, i had a bad car accident. I was in ICU for a fortnight, hospital for 4 months, and a wheelchair for 6 months. I had to retire from my low-grade job. Years later i got cancer, and had several organs removed. I have medication for diabetes and a heart condition. I have never had to pay a penny for any of this. My wife has never been forced to work to pay the bills 😊. I own my own home, 😊 a nice reliable Mercedes 😊😊, and my children have passed through university and have good jobs 😊😊😊. I'm not rich, but i never need worry about bankruptcy. And i can walk again. I enjoy a productive life helping others. Lucky? Maybe, but thanks to people before me who fought for these benefits.
you have paid though, you paid the equivalent of insurance its just the we have a system of collective insurance which massively reduces the cost. Healthcare is not "free" here, we just pay for it in a way which means the costs can be kept very low.
@@ktwashere5637 In no way do you pay in a national health service as much as one pays into a US health insurance company. That's just wrong.
@@sess5206Americans are obscenely overcharged for medical treatment. The British most certainly do pay for it in their taxes. I don't understand your point .
@@ktwashere5637it’s free at the point of use and we all understand that, apart from the pedants.
@@sess5206 That is just not true. The cost of health is a cost. We pay more because our system is better. But, if you work at a good job you do not pay taxes, you don't pay for care, the business does. You may or may not pay a premium. When your are young and healthy, you don't need health care. And here you don't pay for it, you can spend that money on what you want. It is a different mentality, but Americans are wealthier, and if they work hard for a decent job, the job pays. If you go into the military, your healthcare is payed for and if you retire, theose benifits continue. Same with government jobs. You really don't know what you are talking about. What you talk about are worse case scenarios. But for the most part US has superior health care.. if you want it and want to work for it.
The lie they told about America being the greatest country in the world is the one that gets me.
If America (a continent) being the greatest country (not) in the world.
Please name why the country is the greatest?
@@gerardflynn7382 we often hear Americans tell anyone who cares that they live in the greatest country in the world.
My brother used to spend every summer with my sister in the US and on one occasion he was there for about 3 months so he went to school there.
On his first day he got pulled out in front of the class for not pledging his allegiance to the flag.
When he said that he was not American he got into even more trouble and told that as long as he was in an American school he would do as everyone else did.
What a terrible thing to do to an 11 year old
@@gillfox9899indeed, that whole pledge is straight out of the fascist playbook
And they truly believe it😂😂🙄@@cunninglinguist-hu1dz
What i find strange is how Americans constantly feel the need to prove and shout at everyone how patriotic they are, which feels very much like complete indoctrination to me. You can still be patriotic without having to constantly say so. And that Americans get so defensive if they hear criticism about America - again, being able to see the bad points about your country does not make you unpatriotic. You can still love your country while wanting to make improvements without blindly thinking that your country is always the best.
Will to improve is more patriotic to me.
And all these flags everywhere you look … 😱
For me, the only few ways to show your true patriotism is to pay your taxes fairly, vote regularly, and point out the obvious social (or any sort of) injustices and problems in your society.
Beware of those who are wrapping themselves up in flags of their "beloved country" and proclaiming they are the only "true patriots". Those usually have bad things to hide.
As Samuel Johnson said 250 years ago: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
Being able to accept criticism allows you to see the bad points and improve them. Americans are basically incapable of accepting criticism about their country and thus incapable of seeing the bad points, leave alone improving them.
This patriotic nationalism of theirs has the function of indoctrinating their people and making them ready to fight wars provoked by their elite for the interests of the same power elites.
The freedoms flaunted by propaganda are not actually freedoms but are privileges.
Back in 1995 I was hired from London to work in LA as a specialist film technician. I've been practicing yoga for many years and so at 6 pm the first day I said good bye and my boss asked me where I was going. I said yoga. "OH no you can't I want you to do something at 8pm and it will last till midnight". "Humm, so you then expect me to come to work tomorrow at 8.30 AM? "Yes" he said. "Ok, I quit then, have a good night, I won't see you ever again, I'm going back to London tomorrow, taaa". And that was my amerikan working experience. FU!
RESPECT bro
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Two American friends of ours finally did "the holiday of a lifetime" and visited us in the UK. We live in London and as we got close to home, one of them (in quite a shocked and scared voice) said "I didn't know you lived in a black neighbourhood". When we got home, we stood at the front door and I pointed out the various origins of our neighbours up and down the street. White British, Black British, Indian, both Black and White European (from various countries), Black African (from various countries), Turkish, Far Eastern (from various countries), Black Caribbean, Middle Eastern (from various countries), Russian and White South African. And to truly scare them out of their wits I took them shopping........down Electric Avenue and Brixton Market.
oh good move Snowy! They clearly needed their conciousnesses raised.. Brixton Market's just the place.
My daughter works with Americans and recently took them round London. They thought 'London' was just Oxford St and Big Ben. She took them to Camden, Brick Lane and other places.. blew their minds.
US is the most racist country of them all. Regarding everything, the race is first thing they mention. "First black to do this and first latino to do that" like that would have anything to do with it. Amazes me how so diverse country can be so...
That guy is spot on! My father was an American retired from the US navy, my children are in USA as they are Americans and I am Spanish that decided to come back home Spain as I couldn't cope with the America way of life. I'm less stressed, healthy eating, free national health care, outdoor social life and constantly worry about crime regardless time of the day. There's no comparison Europe's life style with the USA and yes I lived 18 years in the UK absolutely brilliant
My friend, Helen, has just had a 6 hour op on the NHS. Two surgeons, one to remove a cancer from her colon and the other to realign her stomach which had come through a massive hernia and was pressing on her heart. She is in her mid 70s. She's doing well and now back to walking and enjoying herself. Thanks NHS.
I did research last year that showed 73% of Americans who lived near to Canada went to Canada to get medications.
Also that 66% of Americans who lived near to Mexico even went to that so called POOR Country to get medical care.
What the hell is going wrong?
I was about to say it is not only Europe that has great healthcare, your neighours to the north and south do too. I lived in the US for 13 years, I experienced a lot of these lies but I did enjoy my time in the US. Then I moved to Canada and realized how much happier I am with a higher quality of life.
Experiencing freedoms abroad.
Yeah Canada where they more or less encourage people with non lethal mental conditions/disabilities to euthanize themselves instead of giving them the care they actually need... Or is that a lie that is being spread? I don't know. I'd like to hear it from someone living in Canada.
I think your question contained the answer.
I think I saw a documentary about US people taking busses to Canada to buy insulin. Think a woman said she could buy a year supply insulin for the same cost as for a month in US. That blew my mind. I live in Sweden. No cost at all for diabetes. At least not for type 1.
I lived in the US for 10 years. Something that I noticed with pretty much everyone was that they wanted what we have in Sweden....5 weeks paid vacation, right to 480 days parental leave, 120 days per year stay at home with sick child, free healthcare, free education even universities and so on. But when they heard the amount of tax we pay they were freaking out. To have all those perks it costs money and our taxes makes for a society with more solidarity, you don't have to be rich to go to university or afford to be sick. Everyone wanted it as long as it didn't cost anything and they didn't have to pay tax that might benefit someone else.
We have a lot of that in Canada too. We do pay some higher taxes but at the end of the day we dont pay anywhere near what Americans pay in taxes, health insurance etc etc etc. We comes out way ahead in the long run.
What they don't know, that at the end of the day, we have more money left in our pockets. Because we don't have to pay those weird fees they do. In there they are called fees, and ours are taxes. And the fees + all the insurances, cost more than our taxes and insurances combined.
So we shouldn't just compare taxes with their taxes. We should compare their weird fees - like the school district, water district, etc. fees.
And this is before you get sick or have to send your kid to university. When that happens - hands down I have much more money left at the end of the month.
Maybe you will all learn one of these days 😂. 😂
@maritgranstromstudley208 sadly all that costs more than taxes, it comes with a lot of violent immigrants. No, thank you.
Americans pay a lot in tax, like property taxes, which are MUCH higher than in Sweden. In Sweden the maximum amount per year in property tax on a house is less than $1000 US. Compare that to some places where property taxes are tens of thousands of dollars. Then there's the private health care premiums in the US, which can be very expensive. Even if your employer pays your premiums, your out-of-pocket costs can be high. Then there's the cost of daycare and college tuition. Americans are already paying through the nose privately. If they paid through taxes instead, then everyone would benefit, not just the rich. Anyway, my Swedish income tax last year was 18.5%. That includes the equivalent of Social Security taxes, which is 6.4% in the US. That means my income tax would be the equivalent of just over 12% in the US. The point is, unless you have an extremely high income, you aren't paying all that much here in tax in Sweden. It's true that sales tax is 25% but in several states in the US sales tax can reach almost 10%. Then there's the tipping culture that adds 20% to a meal. 😅😅😅
In France we often say your freedom stops where the one of others starts. Meaning sure you’re free for example to say what you think but you can’t discriminate or appeal for hatred as it would be going against someone else’s freedom
Same in Germany.
Just 6? A native Californian, I left in 2007 and could write volumes. The EU is my home and I don't want to be anywhere else.
He wanted to keep to the format of his usual channel content :)
Same for me, except I left in 1995
Please stay in your freeland USA, don't come to destroy the rest of the world👍
I just remembered something from when I was like 8 years old. We were on holiday in France. A bus full of American kids stopped where we were having a coffee. They all got out, got the flag out and sang their anthem. Then they just got back on the bus and drove away. It was a surreal experience for us to say the least.
Omg, seriously ?? I truly believe i would have totally vomited on them; the ´precious darlings´ 🤮😑🙄😂.... ~💖
Shame they don't even bother to sing their national anthem in their own country. I watch a lot of American sports and have never once seen a single American fan sing the national anthem but I think that's because it takes all their brain power to concentrate on holding their hands on their heart and stopping them from extending it forwards!
Because of my job placement, I am a Brit who has lived and worked in America for a while. My biggest takeaway was the ignorance of the average American outside America and an unquestioning belief that America was the best of everything.
That belief is one thing, that unquestioning is the real problem.
I worked in the US on an IT contract some years ago. I had a good time and the people were super. I was however a little taken aback when a US college asked "Do you have toilets in France?" I did think to say 'ever since we ran out of space in our gardens' but was too surprised.
We have toilets in France. And bidets, showers, baths, hot and cold running water, good waste treatment systems etc.
@@PhilJonesIII You should have replied with "Toilet happens to be a French word".
I saw a recent video of a guy in a busy street with a huge world map interviewing Americans asking them to name different countries on the map...some of them didn't even know which country on that map was the U.S
In the EU a sick day is not a holiday. That means: if you take 7 days holidays/ vacation and get sick for a week, all it takes is a doctor's note and your employer has to give you those 7 days back in holidays. Its amazing
Is the labour laws.
It's not amazing. It's normal and fair. The states is the anomaly, the odd one out in democracy. But very much like China or Russia? Weird how you have to be rich to get even the basics In these 3 countries. But free in countries with true freedom.
Europe has a healthcare system, the US has a healthcare industry
@@scottbroadfoot3530 I reckon even in Russia they have paid vacation and sick leave...
Also, if you happen to get ill during your holidays and can prove it with a doctor's note, those days no longer count as holidays.
13:29 the most ironic thing is that the American medical insurance system is far closer to a death panel than anything in Europe.
What is a death panel? I didn’t understand what he was talking about. I’m in the UK.
@@GreenWhitePurple The idea as far as I understand is thus: A death panel is when you have to decide who to even treat out of some amount of people. So it's like having to decide whether this grandma should live or this young smoker. Underlying assumption being that the capacity for health care is too low with socialized medicine.
Completely ridiculous, only seen this sort of thing in American medical dramas.
In reality it is a long queue or a short queue depending on how quickly you need care. That's about it.
@@vez3834 just to be honest... COVID really put us in that situation during worst period.
But that's not about small capacity (usually it's more than enough) but about pandemic of disease without known treatment and very specific required equipment.
But... You can't prepare for everything I guess
@@stannumowl yea, fair. It was not a normal situation indeed.
Yup, only in America such a ridiculous lie would even be taken serious. The propaganda is top notch!
Australian here - at secondary school we learned World Geography - rivers capitals Mountain ranges etc - and histories of North America Europe etc .....
An example of "Pledging Allegiance to the flag" gone wrong was when a friend of mine from Holland did a year long student exchange in the USA. After a couple of weeks, the teacher took him to one side and said that she had noticed he wasn't joining in. He looked at her perplexed and said "I'm Dutch" and the teachers' reply was hysterical - "You are living here now"...
Did she also come out as Atheist, or as indifferent christian at best? That would light some fireworks I believe.
@@Ohne_Silikone
Did 'she' or did 'he'?
You talking about the teacher or the friend ?
@@bastiennietveld7128 did he, since I clearly read over this. Must have been late.
Well, one other example of nation with pledge of allegiance... is.... *drumroll*
Germany under Hitler.
I know a Danish girl who was over there. The teacher would tell the rest of the class that she was from a communist country.....
I've watched Joel for a few years now, and seen his eyes gradually open to a more objective (and critical) view of the USA. I often wonder how much he expresses this more critical perspective to his friends, acquaintances and family, and how they react to it. Does he get push-back - accusations of anti-patriotism? Both Carl (who he was reacting to) and Joel alluded to the pervasive nature of nationalist propaganda in the US, so I can well imagine things could become quite confrontational should he dare to express his dissatisfaction with the status quo.
I loved the positivity and optimism with which Joel ended - though they have one hell of a battle ahead. The corporations that run the US have massive power, now beyond the reach of legitimate politics or democracy.
Their mantra is "we the people". Only they, the people, can bring about change.
I can recall pretty much every generation since the 1960s, protesting and saying, basically, "we're gonna change everything!", but it seems that, by the time they get through college and are starting into the workforce with massive student loan debt, the need to work to live (to pay down debt, buy and insure a vehicle to get to and from work, pay for health care insurance, pay rent or dream of owning their own home someday, marry, have children, co-pay what insurance doesn't pay for childbirth, buy healthcare insurance for those children, pay for childcare for those children so you can continue to work because you can't afford to lose your job now that you've got all these daily expenses, etc.), there's no time that's right to do anything about the system that you swore you would fight against because you're too busy living in that system! It's the same for every generation. (Edited to correct a typo.)
He is still learning, let the experience build then his position will evolve, forcing a political position out of him would be very wrong, he will speak when he's ready. JPS for president is a campaign to get behind 🤯
I experienced Joel seems to rethink gun laws?
@@carolmurphy7572 oh wow crazy, that’s a pretty smart system. Whoever in control must be geniuses.
I was a tour director before retirement and visited the USA for many years. One think that amazed me was the ignorance towards other countries. Now a 75 yo and living in Spain I have superb social medical treatment - free of charge.
As an Australian I had a distant American relative visit. She had a Phd so wasnt a dummy.
We took her to all the usual visitor spots including a visit to the public gallery of our parliament while it was in session. She expressed surprise at seeing how Government worked in our 'communist' country. She was from Florida.
We were on a holiday in the US. We were talking to some US citizens & the topic if health care came up. We told them Australia has Medicare which is a universal health care system for all Australian citizens, permanent residents & some temporary residents which resulted in one of the group stating, 'I didn't know Australia was a communist country.'
Americans love shouting communism but I don’t think they actually know what it means. I saw a comment once “we hate communism here in the states, no one wants to turn out like Germany” hitler and communism is the biggest oxymoron ever 😂
Americans have no idea of the difference between socialism and communism
Communism was a big political movement here in Australia, with the associated turmoil of twenties and thirties depression and later world events. It was alive and well and a part you could vote for well into the fifties, maybe later. Thing is, there was a push to ban Communism, but in a democracy worth its salt, how can you bans a party that runs and exists. If the population demands Communism or Fascism... and votes it in....... So the Communists became a real party. They just faded out as the more mainstream left wing policies addressed the most pressing grievances. In Australia we can have guns, can vote communist, have free medical, public housing , lots of social pensions, unlimited unemployment benefits (and low unemployment) a month of holidays, two weeks sick ( i believe.. some professions like teaching have more), Wages are set as "living wages" and even the scam "contractor wages" and "forever casuals" being banned. I have not noted any gross limitations on free speech bar via US dominated social media which is far far right fascist. Vast majority go home on the bell, have a 40 hour week , down to 35 hr week and 9 day fortnights. Some allow you to work overtime for more holidays.
@@Shell2164A.H. was shrewd. He called his party the National Socialists to fool the voters and as soon as he gained power he showed his true fascist colours.
In Ukraine, Zelensky's platform was to end the civil w*r, but as soon as elected he repudiated this promise. He has suspended elections indefinitely.
Be careful what you wish for.
The irony is that the true meaning of communism, not the corrupt Russian version, is prevalent in America in the ford of communities such as the Amish where everyone works for the common good regardless of status.
You don't want them to be educated, because the "perfect soldier" (like Reese from Malcom in the Middle) is one who doesn't think and follows instructions. You bind the "perfect soldier" with the pledge of allegiance to your nation and without thinking and only following your instructions you have your perfect machine/roboter which you can use in any way you like. Let them work at minimum wage in factories and big stores or let them work for little money as waiters where the customer has to pay with a tip from his own little money he earned working 40-50 h a week. And when the real soldiers surprisingly survive and are now veterans, you can ignore them and let them sleep on the sidewalk in the streets. And for the illusion of freedom, let them have their (toy) guns.
This is the american dream.
America f yeah! 🦅
Socialized health care : In the US, the message is that socialized healthcare tells you which doctor you can go see and which one you can't. But wait ... isn't that exactly what happens in the States ? Doesn't your insurance company tell you which doctors are part of their network, and therefore which one's you have to see if you want to be covered ? Here in France, every doctor is covered by public health insurance. You can choose ANY doctor and you'll be covered. Bad, bad, bad socialized health care taking away your freedom ? BS !
no, I can go to any doctor I like here in Oz. Surgery is different. If you pay a top up you can choose surgeons etc, but somehow you then just get on a pay pay pay cycle. You get sick, its free.
Heh, I can go see any doctor I want to. I can slso use an app to do it.
I go to a private clinic - and guess what? There's no difference in how much I pay, because my Swedish "medicare" is payed to the doctor I go to.
Here in the UK we chose our own doctor. If you need to see a doctor if you're ill far from home, you are treated and your registered doctor is informed of the treatment you received. This is still free under the system.
In Poland we have clinics covered by public healthcare (NFZ) and some not covered private companies. Works like a charm. If you need something important asap - you can go to NFZ clinic, if you need some routine thing sometimes - you can also use NFZ services. But if you have something not important, but you need it asap - go to private clinics
As a now Danish, Public Pensioner, I had 6 weeks paid for Vacation each year, and we have Tax-paid for (Not at all "Free"!) Doctors and Hospitals. If I need a Heart Transplant, it won't cost me, because a lot of people pay a minor sum (only if I need to take care of my teeth, I pay a minor part still!). And we don't pay for Schools or University (Pupils get public support and may achieve inexpensive loans). And till the sixties, Danish Police didn't even have a gun, only a baton. Finn. Denmark
"Tax-paid for"
Wow, Thatcher's 'Taxes fund spending' myth has got to Denmark too? Eep.
Mate, I could see the pain in your eyes. Great video by the way. Love from England
I am European and 81 years old. I always looked up to the USA, untill I travelled two months by bus through various estates. I saw that the poor people in the USA were much more miserable than in the EU, social housing was a disaster and people living and begging in the streets was a shame. Where are the opportunities for these people? The EU was created to facilitate travel, exchange of goods and for all, to help each other to develop. All the countries of the EU got help to develop their economy, to improve infrastructure, schooling and health care. Now I can travel to any country of EU whiteout passport and go to a hospital without paying anything extra. What has USA done for their country or their neighbors to have earned so much credit?
Instead of stupid border restrictions , who talkes about plans to improve economies of neighbor countries to prevent migration? NEVER. Politics are more stupid in USA than anywhere and Trump is the living evidence. Better vote 🗳️ 🗳️🗳️
So true that not many Americans know about Europe. When driving from Canada to the US I informed a US border guard that I was from the UK and he didn't know what that meant. I had to tell him it was England, Great Britain and the Unitd Kingdom before he cottoned on.
In Poland, we have 26-35 days of vacation (obligatory = if you don't use it, it's lost), in addition, we get a bonus of about $200-300 for the holidays, and sick leave is paid in 80% (without limit). Weekends are charged additionally. Healthcare and education (including university studies) for free. Many medicines for people over 70 are also free.
We have a saying in the UK, ‘How can you tell if a politician is lying? Their lips are moving’
Not just the UK, but I agree with you.
That's a universal concept, but then, I don't blame the politician, I blame the people, after all, governments and politician are a reflection of the public, at least in a democracy where we put them there, we as voters do a really poor job in electing people that actually serve the public interest, also, it's very easy for them to divide the public and get us fighting among ourselves, something we are seeing a lot of across Europe and North America right now, and it's only the public that pays the price in the end, as we found out with Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US and likely to find out with the far right in Europe over time.
UK and Germany often have the Same Kind of Humor.
@@Oma_Wetterwachs Yes we do and its awesome !.
Not with Boris Johnson - He only ever spoke out of his arse!😀
The Brits complain like hell about the NHS because as Joel said, no system is perfect. I think most people complain about most things when it is all they have known BUT go live in another country where the situation is do much worse (or expensive) & you are afraid to get ill & then you realise the NHS is a true blessing. I am diabetic, have kidney & thyroid issues. I have multiple Sr appts. See consultants, have scans & x rays, bloods drawn regularly, expensive medicines & l do not pay a penny. That for me is the biggest thing to be thankful for EVER.
I am also an American who is living in Europe. The most important delusion I had before I lived here, was that there is not enough wealth for everyone to have affordable health care, a decent place to live, and enough expendable income to do things like travel. I used to think you had to choose 2 of those, but all 3 are just impossible. But in Western Europe, all 3 are common, and in countries quite a bit less rich than the USA. "They must be communist or socialist!" you say? No, I can start a business easily here, arguably more easily than in the USA. The downside is, taxes are quite a bit higher. But, unless you are one of the very few who is lucky enough to die all at once from a heart attack, WE WILL ALL need a lot of expensive medical care at some time in our lives. The financial catastrophe of medical care in American, even with great insurance, is more than enough to compensate for the low taxes. There are other benefits to living in a society with a better safety net, which are more difficult to explain. For example, I never understood the residual fear and desperation that the majority of Americans felt, until I lived somewhere for a while that doesn't have that. There is more, but I have said too much already.
Just take a good look into the comparative costs of childbirth. There is a very good video about comparing those costs for the USA and Germany by Type Ashton. And another of the general medical costs.
I guess it helps that I see what my taxes are paying for. I live in the Netherlands and whenever I visit another country I'm glad to see my taxes at use. Sure, it's high, but it's worth it. Car ownership is expensive here, but potholes are basically unheard of. When I go to Belgium I can feel when I cross the border, because the quality of the road decreases significantly. Of course my country isn't perfect, but I gladly pay my taxes.
@@DanDanDoe Nederland - probably the best country in the world.
Spread the word Joel. Let’s hope more people will think like you in the future
As an Australian, who has been a YHA member, since 1991 - and who survived rural/backward Australia for decades, by utilizing the Network in Australia - I got to meet mostly European backpackers, including Germans and their general knowledge, let alone geographical knowledge, is impressive, so is their maturity. Australians, who have a FAR bigger barrier, distance wise and dollar exchange rate BIG disadvantages, seem to have no problem knowing and understanding Europeans and Americans.
It certainly appears to be an American thing. Some countries with propaganda and restrictions - such as Russia and China, also seem to know more about their outside world.
The US, without this and even with trade, diplomatic and Defence personnel movement, still is very ignorant of the outside world.
This is absolutely ridiculous. If the "average" American was fully aware of actual life in other countries and their psyche, I'm sure the psyche of US Society, would be much better.
The current trump situation and it's followers prove this, with their insular and aggressive stance. Joel, is refreshingly not part of this lunacy, and can see the world correctly. 😊
Well said.
Donald Trump said “God alone” saved his life from an assassination attempt, as he called Americans to unite against political violence.
What a hypocrite.
But as far as our colonialism is concerned, all European nations who had a navy were doing this. UK, France, Spain. Portugal, Holland Belgium, Italy and later Germany, who started late in the "race for Africa".
It's just that the Royal Navy was often the largest. But at least the UK were the first to ban slavery and intercepted American slave ships who were continuing this.
America itself is a colony, well it was a colony until they stopped calling it one after the War of Independence. They were part of the European settlers who killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in North America, plus (Latin America) and large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate.
They have also involved themselves in the 20th and 21st century wars more than any other country, either direct or covert. They have always made sure that a right-wing leader or dictator was in power in Latin America. The Middle East is in turmoil, all started on a lie. The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history. The United States Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theatres of WW2 II.
There's a book called by James W. Loewen "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" .
The treatment of black GIs in WW2 and Vietnam is seldom mentioned.
I've been to the USA 6 times in different regions, mostly California, and I'm really surprised about the basic lack of knowledge regrading history there is there. I think most history is taken from Hollywood such "The Patriot" or "U-571". If this is critized, one will read "it's only a movie".
Several years ago I was twice in Russia...different cities (Moscow and Novosibirsk) and the opposite was the case.. I was surprised how much they knew about world history, and most of all, how many despised their own government and said it quite openly.
PS The pass-control is much simpler at Moscow airport than it is going thru those insulting TSA idiots.
Switzerland 🇨🇭 has more guns per capita than the US with almost zero gun violence. The violence part of guns are all in the us culture. This is because every grown man who did military service in Switzerland keep their automatic rifles at home
Idiots still want to live in Wild west, half of the population can so so read, critical thinking is from some Qanon site or far rigth bullshit media. As this all is not enough big part of people twisted God and his son to all this mess. Start with education and common sens,good luck.
But in Switzerland the owners (holders in the case of army rifles) are properly trained according to law and people with psychiatric problems do not have the right to hold a weapon...
@@mroykomroyko exactly! 👍🏼
@@mroykomroyko in US it should be almost half of the population.
@@mroykomroyko in the US of A, that was the initial rule of the NRA. But it went downhill in the end....
Every country in Europe is a social democracy. We understand the difference between social democracy and communism. Americans don't.
Greetings from the UK.
I hope America appreciates that it is people like you who prevent people here from despising Americans as a whole. We have crazy right-wingers who love your crazy right-wingers but lots of folk here think everyone over there is a crazy right-winger. Keep it real, question what you are told and fight the good fight.
I like and respect your anger, Joel. You are right to express it!
Waking up is painful..but the pain will disappear..you are on a good way to wake up..when you are awaken it is difficult to manipulate you..you can go your own way..and thats freedom...
Those whom rule the USA make sure Nothing changes towards a European way of doing things. This is directly or indirectly in their own intrest. You guys are being trained by TV and Internet to be a good consument, actually look at your society from a distance and the words of economical slavery comes to mind.... since the big companies have you framed in working at those big companies and purchase from these companies and everything, I mean everything is a market....and you as a person are expendable... you're worth nothing to those big companies, except for making them money by working for them and purchasing their products. We in Europe make sure no single (USAmerican) company will ever get the power they have in the USA, which frustrates American companies trying to set foot on European soil. They can, but under stringent European law in which customers are protected against the practices of what USAmerican companies are allowed to mangle their customers in the USA. Ask all big companies which tried to do so and failed here in Europe.
Walmart in Germany 😂
They lost 1 000 000 000 Dollar! And gave Up
@@uschi1814 Great example!👍😄
Yes, but engagement has waned quite a bit in Europe. Plus, why do you think the EU was set up? By the same owners, to create a conduit for the same behaviour that drives the corporates in the US....
It's capitalism, they've let it take such a hold in the US that the government seems too weak when it comes to fighting corporations, so much so that the EU is having to do it because the US isn't willing or isn't capable of doing it.
Which is ironic, because in the US, they are giving too much power to corporations whiles at the same time reducing powers of the government, it's like trading in democracy for many smaller dictators that the people have no representation, which could eventually end up with the US running full steam ahead into a Blade Runner like future that the government is powerless to prevent corporations from doing what they want and corporations run everything, I highly doubt that will happen in other modern countries, but it wouldn't surprise me if it does in the US with how the system is set up in favour of corporations, which could be dangerous long term to give them so much power.
@@fnaaijkens69actually no, that’s complete rubbish.
In the UK, you can choose to express yourself in any way (that isn't illegal) if you want to BUT not with impunity. It does not free you from the consequences of your chosen words or actions. Behave as you please but remember so can everyone else - you can (peacefully) share your opinion, but people can (peacefully) share their opinion of your opinion..... Choose wisely... Lol!
Please Americans, stay where you are, carry on believing your country is the best! Do not come running here and imposing your ideas on us. We embrace true freedom, we love our social system, do not
Want to adopt your passion for capitalism, there is more to life! Make changes to your country!
Hi from an Australian living in Europe.You are so correct.My American friends are always apologising for their ignorance & lack of knowlege of basically any country outside of USA ~& constantly shocked WE KNOW more about USA~ it's history, the US Constitution, Executive Legislative & Judicial Systems, political processes/electoral systems, (+ geography) etc than they do. We constantly wonder what children there actually ARE taught in school, because it certainly doesn't appear to be languages (*other than "American" >??🤔 ..🤭).. either .
They seem to have great entertainmeners and sportlers for sure. Well and some other great people, but another of the first 2
I've often wondered what American actually do learn in school. As you say, it's not languages and not history or geography either. Yesterday I watched two American teenagers that popped up in my feed that had never heard of the Holocaust.
@@digidol52 Wow! That's scary, isn't it?!
I guess they teach in school how great and wonderful the USA is, that the USA is the only free country in the entire world. And last but not least how to use firearms. Perhaps a little reading, writing and maths.
The language is not even American.
It is a very poor version of English.
The only American languages that I have heard of are Native American languages.
I live in a flat owned by a housing association. It's beautiful, it's on the edge of a lovely park, and the properties on the same estate sell for nearly £1m. I love where I live and feel very lucky.
Me too. My rent is £400 a month yet a similar one in the private sector would be £1,000 a month.
I'm lucky to have what I have.
Ive actually listened to a documentary on homelesness years ago that brought up the topic of social housing. It pretty much stated that social housing that functions to segregate and keep people away without giving them a chance to buy the home that they stay in, is never anywhere near as sucsessful as a social housing program that lets you live in a normal residential area with good diversity with the ability to buy/pay back the home you live in in the long term.
It also showed that most developed nations have similar relative levels of homelessness but its the functionional social safety net that we have in most european nations that has allowed us to escape the considerable soxial and economic burdens of increased crime and the like that normally occur with the increase of homelessness, by taking care of those people.
As a side note, my best friend's grandparents were homeless and without the strange form of social housing that they got from the church in cyprus in the 1940s to 50s, they never would have gotten their lives around to start a family, they both still lived in that home till they passed away in their late 80s early 90s a year ago. Its interesting to note that systems like that existed even way back then with the church helping people in smaller communities.
@momtchilboshniakov290 You are right in much of what you said but social housing doesn't just exist to house homeless people. It came about as a concept over a century ago as an alternative to private landlords because their was a recognition that most people (then majority renters) weren't served well by private renting. As we can see today with rents rising as a proportion of people's incomes (some above 50%) that the issues still exist. Social housing doesn't exist to make a profit essentially - merely provide high quality housing that is low cost. It used to be for everyone that needed it in my country until the right wingers got control.
@@richardmadden8742I think it is just becoming too expensive to build. And with the price of houses rising so much you have more and more people needing social housing
My grandma just had 2 strokes at the age of 98.
The Doctors did everything in their power to safe her... and they did.
She's back at home and relatively fine. Here are no panels. ;)
There was however a large controversy in the UK about the Liverpool care pathway, and it was hyped up in the conservative press at the time, as a death panel. Now, all the pathway was about was palliative care for elderly people who were dying / close to death. Such as Do not resuscitates and how to care for someone at the end of their life. The media turned it into 'your granny / granddad will not be saved' etc... Which was not the case.
@@warailawildrunner5300 there was a great scandal about it because many patients put on the LCP were denied fluids and food.
@lorrainewhitehead9080 my mother was one of them. She was unconscious, so did she know she was hungry or thirsty?? I still think of this 12 years later...
The NHS has just decided to make gene therapy for haemophilia B available. It costs £2.6 million.
@@dianeleitch Ask any hospice nurse who cares for the end of life patients. The body begins to shut down naturally, so forcing fluids and food into them, will just cause the body to swell and cause pain and discomfort if they're conscious. At that point, they aren't aware of hunger or thirst because the body doesn't need food or water.
As a citizen of the United States I can testify that we are the best at claiming our country is the greatest country in the world. We claim it more often than any other citizen of every nation in the world, even more often than North Koreans. Sometimes we use a short cut because we can't fit enough praise in a given time to please our nationalist egoes . And we chant USA USA USA in some sort of religious stupor.
Your indoctrinated to a false idea the best way to do it is keep repeating it and eventually you belive and Americans fall for it and belive and happily repeat it with smiles on their faces you don't see the north Koreans smiling
Dr. Johnson...." Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Cue Farage.
ruclips.net/video/XvGmOZ5T6_Y/видео.html some sort of religious stupor
Way back when I was at my junior school1965. I had black, indian,Pakistani and even a,Chinese friend. We all went to the same state school.
Multi cultural,multi religious, and I was an atheist by the time I was 11
We pay our taxes because we know were they goes,free healthcare ,free education and moore
…but obviously not in spelling lessons?
@@SuperJinxter how many languages are you able to read?
@SuperJinxter How well can you spell in Dutch or Swedish ?
😂 I can speak three languages, and I would also use a spellcheck. It doesn’t take a genius level intelligence. 🤣
@@SuperJinxter an American ???
Freedom of peacefully enjoying your beer in public. What could matter more.
The polce will only get involved if you make a public disturbance of it. Even kids by the age of 16 are allowed to drink beer and wine. Police may check their IDs, but as long as you are 16 or above nothing comes of it if you behave peacefully! Okay, not Jan6-peacefully obviously!
AMEN!!! 💯👍👍👍😂😂😂
I'm European, but to all the Americans in here: Please, go vote!
as if voting helps... Well it helps the politicians, never helped the people.
Not voting helps the politicians you hate the most
@@priceprice_baby when the game is rigged ( aka the politicians decide who we can vote for), you claim that voting for Mao will will make problems for Hitler, but not voting for Mao , is helpful for Hitler?
They are both working for the ruling class, they both want the same thing, just done in a different way. So you voting, is you saying " ok, I will obey the ruling class, they own me".
Not voting says " I will not play your game"-
If enough people refused to vote for terrible people.. we might get somewhere.
Nah they can choose between a criminal that want to become a dictator and already have the high court in his hands or a old man that is not capable anymore? Why there are not young people to vote for?
@@Goldenhawk583 Democracy is not free, it's not a right, it's a privilege won by generations that died for it in the past. If you stop fighting for democracy and your right to vote you're enabling dictators and would be kings to rise to power. I know that the US has two horrible candidates this year, Trump the racist and anti women rights candidate that wants to end democracy and Biden the demented idiot that is too proud to stand down and let a candidate with a working brain run against Trump. Staying home and not voting will leave you with one or the other in charge of your life. Biden is old and too proud to step down but he doesn't want to end democracy in the US, Trump is old and admires Putin's Russia and how Putin has avoided free elections and held the power since the late 90's. There's a lesser of two evils here, the one that doesn't want to enslave you for life...
experiencing the pledge of allegiance for the first time as a young german transfer student was WILD. i was lowkey a little afraid, it felt like watching a history documentary. i didn't know if i was allowed to do the same motion or what was expected of a foreigner to do in that situation. and the procedure seemed so practiced and normal for everyone, it was like in star wars or something haha
One big issue in the US is that schools are funded by local taxes, often property taxes. A rich neighborhood gets good schools. A poor neighborhood doesn't.
Make America great again! I love to visit the USA, but no chance I'd live there. I come from the UK but now live in Germany. Health care and holiday entitlement is high on my list. NO person should be refused directly or via payment to get health care. Your generation needs to fight for health care for all and 30 days holiday.
I was born in Europe and recently had back surgery. The whole thing cost me maybe 110 euros. And I was sick for 5 weeks, so I wasn't at work. I still have my job and am currently in physiotherapy. I'd be really interested to know what it would have cost me in the USA. Health should be a human right. I feel really sorry for people who are in debt because of it.
I'm from Ecuador, in South America, and workers have at least 15 days of paid vacation a year. It's the law. Teachers, other people working in education usually have a month of paid vacation.
I can't understand why the US is so different in that matter.
because it is a wellfare state for multinationals. That is why. The very rich need to be protected from the needy and poor you see.
I hope we can one day welcome you here in The Netherlands, I think you'll be so much happier here and you deserve it my man!
Well done young man .Keep your mind open and hopefully other young people will educate themselves and see through the bullshit.
I’ve been visiting America for 50 years and I won’t be back. Things are pretty bad there now and god help you in the future.
European employers want to have happy employees because they are much more productive. And how often I heard on US media something like 'Imagine having to live in Europe where they have no freedom of speech'. No, we have freedom of expression which is a much broader concept and is not limited to speech only. I remember the Red Hot Chili Peppers on tour in the Netherlands surprised they could simply insult our queen and make rude sexual comments about her on public tv, the interviewer explained: 'yes you can, but you don't have to' and he followed up with: don't you have freedom of speech in the US? And the guy answered: yes but it seems we got the limited version. 😆
yeah the US has freedom of speech, that's why they have to bleep out half of the dictionary on shows/movies/songs/games/RUclips etc.
while in (most of) Europe we can say almost everything on almost every type of media. (just don't overdo it or do it just to hurt someone)
Well to be fair freedom of expression has also really suffered in the last few years under the "anti"-racists. You can be charged for saying "thats a good one" to a racist joke, but others are allowed to hunt you down and beat you up without consequences just cause you have the "wrong" skin color. Its absurd
I watch a channel that reads court documents, and they have to censor themselves because RUclips would ban them for using bad words.
You propably can't even read a biology book without getting a strike.
@@arthurdent5357 Just talk about alternative usage of reproductive organs (same act, but for fun, not for reproduction). And the education about same.
Don’t exaggerate Europeans employers aren’t that different from the USA ones but unlike the USA most Europeans governments put guidelines in places for business to follow also because of our long history is still a kind “recent” event and they are trying take away the things we have taken for granted
I like International Carl, I've watched a few of his videos. The news is that America is not the home or only host of freedom. Remember who gave you the statue of liberty.
They would first have to look it up to even believe it isn't uniquely American.
Our healthcare system here in Slovakia has many problems. But when you have, for example, a heart attack, the insurance company will fully pay you 3-weeks of spa treatments in one of our many spa centers with rehabilitation, natural thermal waters, different procedures, resting etc. Once or twice a year. The more serious your health problem is (= the more heart attacks you have), the more benefits you have, and with your normal, general insurance as everyone else has, which is 50€ in average monthly. What death panels are they even talking about. 😭
That was a great video to react to, bro had loads of good points I've not heard on these kind of vids before.
I got treated for cancer in Ireland last year. I was kept in hospital for a month. I received full health care, multiple tests. Total cost to me: zero.
I live in a country where almost all police are unarmed, where everyone working is guaranteed three weeks off a year. There has never been a school shooting. We never do any pledging allegiance stuff. Most people vote in elections. I like the US but I am glad I don't live there.
similar to OZ and NZ
NI?
And here in Ireland you can get health insurance which helps get tests quicker or get into one of the private hospitals but we have "community rating" which means everybody pays the same regardless of age, previous history, etc.
One minor correction. By law everyone is entitled to a minimum of 20 days per year. The typical large US company, of which there are many, give 25 to 28 days per annum.
Could be either NI or ROI I reckon.
Many Americans dont know was the different between the EU und Europe is. As well that the european Continent is much larger then the US. My American Friend how is living here in Europe said, I have more Freedom here in Europe then in my counriy, how tells the world we are the land of free. 😂😂🤣 He said, i see no reason to go back to the US. .
With "Europe" it is the same as with "America". Meaning the EU many just say Europe, just as e.g. North America is not only the US, but also Canada and yesss Mexico as well! OMG I think we gotta call the police ...😂😂😂
Or that Europe, is made up of 49 sovereign countries. With different laws and cultures and languages.
The US Constitution from 1791 was once great in the !8th, 19th and early 20th century. But now it´s totally outdated. No word about human dignity. Freedom? it's only Freedom to .... but no Freedom from. The second amendment shows the dilemma too: the right of the people to keep and bear weapons is connected to a militia that was necessary for a free (federal) State in the late 18th and 19th century. The Militia is long gone, but people still carry weapons.
If the people fail to adjust their constitution in peace, the adjustment will come nevertheless, but it will be cruel.
And somehow those people clamoring about the Second Amendment always forget (or deliberately leave out) the "well regulated" part.
As for me, I will uphold The Right To Arm Bears.
I hope you are slowly realising just how third world the USA actually is. Dreadful lack of health care, extremely poor education system, huge homeless population, shortly to be persecuted for sleeping rough, virtually non-existent public transport system, and appalling policing (protect and serve? what a joke!) Oh and I had forgotten about the "pledge of allegiance" that kids are forced to recite in school (sounds like something you might expect in a country like North Korea).
To every American moving to Europe, don't be thst guy refusing to learn the local language
Estudio español todos los días. Yo también mejoro cada día.
Well if they don't learn , they will arrive to a point where nobody wants them. So they will be rude to them..what's normal
@@heldertorres4296 or they can move to UK or Ireland... Or Cyprus (I know Latvian lady who lived there for years and have only very basic greek).
But that's right. Learn local language, in most cases you will need it sooner or later
@@stannumowl I'm used to speak multiple languages my country has 3 different languages...and I do travel a lot..so I always try to learn the language .
And most European people will speak in English to you until they notice your living in the country and not in Holliday ..
There they will get annoyed if you don't make an effort ..what's normal
According to the data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the average salary of a doctor in the US is around $313,000 per year, which is significantly higher than the average salary of a doctor in the UK, which ranges from £80,000 to £150,000 per year.
We may not have guns, but we do have the right to cross the road where we want.
We may not need guns, but we do have the right to cross the road without being shot at!
hahahah yes the US police state.. I found out the hard way in Hawaii, I had no idea what the police were even on about. US police are also often thugs, pull a gun and put on cuffs for a bad haircut
@@macdieter23558 Switzerland is one of the most armed countries in the world and yet it is one of the safest countries, maybe the problem is not with the weapons but with other things?
... or have a beer while walking on the street.
I don't want to blame the US, I think the people in every country should decide how they want to live, and these decisions vary from place to place.
On the (in)famous 6th Street in Austin, TX - I liked that place very much - I attempted to carry my half full (plastic!) glass of beer on my way to the next venue. The bouncers stopped me politely to perform the legal violation of drinking beer on the street in a crazy night life district...😂
My country has guns but it’s mostly old people with hunting riffles.
Russia,france,Germany have a lot of guns , most per capita is serbia,montenegro,cyprus,Finland,Austria ect
Even Canada the usa neighbors have a lot of guns with less cr1me
Here's a simple explanation for communism, socialism and capitalism:
Communism: A single party controls the country and everything in it. The populace owns nothing.
Socialism: A democratic elected goverment controls the most necessary stuff (such as public transport and healthcare) whilst regulating corporations extort the populace. The populace is taxed (sometimes heavily), but owns their stuff.
Capitalism: Corporations control the goverment, and money means everything. The populace thinks they own their stuff, but are in reallity renting it from the coeporations/banks.
Communism never came!
That’s certainly propaganda
as for "Socialism =regulating corporations extort the populace," I do not agree that has anything to do with the Socialist manifesto. I agree with everything else though.
we call that Christian Democrat actually, and NEVER "socialist" .
Darling you need to read marx.
What needs to be said about the 20 to 25 days of vacation: These are WORKING days, which means monday to friday. So 20 days make 4 (7 day) weeks, 25 days make 5 (7 day) weeks. And it becomes more with age. Above approx. 50 y.o.a. you reach 30 days (6 weeks) of yearly vacation. Additional there is a rule that one of the vacations has to be 3 weeks or longer!
If, for some reason, you are unable to take the vacation days, you get it payed out, so at least you are financially compensated!
You don´t get a number of sick days. If you´re sick, you´re sick. If you are sick longer than 3 days you need to send your employer a doctor´s note, but that´s it!
I hope not to offend, your English is fantastic as an obvious EAL person. But if I might educate you on your use of "payed", the correct form in this context is "paid". Payed is a word, but it relates to sailing, not to money. :)
@@juliaw151 No offense taken, I love to learn from my errors! I don´t like making errors, but being corrected is a good thing!
Years ago I lived in the United States for six months. People were very kind to me, but I noticed that the TV coverage of the rest of the world was remarkably limited.
Years ago I watched an edition of the American ABC World News on the BBC News channel and of the half hour broadcast only 2 minutes was about news outside the USA and even that was about Americans!
5 weeks paid holiday in Norway. Free hospitals. Max payment (roof) for your GP is a bit more than USD 200 / year. Most medications you need to live and function are subsidized. We don't pay a separate social security, or private insurance companies for medical or dental care.
Kindergarten has a max price of USD 180/month. And most are large kindergartens with educated employees (3-5 years specialization for most of them). Schools are completly free. You can still chose private schools, but they are generally not better than free public schools.
If you get sick, and can't work, you are entitled 1 year full pay. From second year you get (i think) 66% of previous salary.
Tax rates are higher than the US, but you get something for your moneys.
We are no 1 in the world on the press freedom index, before Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and Finland. The US is no 55 on the same index.
The US has 531 incarcerated people per 100.000
Norway has 55 incarcerated people per 100.000.
Gun homocides pr 100k for USA: 6,1.
Gun homocides pr 100k for Norway: 0,2
(30 times more likely to witness or dies in gun violence in the US than in Norway)
Traffic deaths pr 100k USA: 12,8
Traffic deaths pr 100k Norway: 2
USA - around 50% of kids attend sports (6-9 yo)
Norway: 64% girls, 68% boys, and 76% of kids in Norway play sports between ages 9-15. (Around 53,8% of US kids attend sport between ages 6-17).
Average lifespan is longer in Norway than in the US.
Why would we want to move to the US?
Im 59. Im Danish. I lived in America for 38 years. Legally. Had to throw that in. I returned to Denmark 2 years ago. Early this year I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I pay 39 % of my income in taxes before my personal deduction. Due to my ra I have been to many doctor vists including specialist. Blood work, x rays, bone scanning. I havent seen one bill and I wont. I dont mind the taxes at all. I have had to go on partial sick leave at the moment. I still get paid full salary. I dont mind the taxes I am paying. I am entitled to 6 weeks paid vacation. I am pleased with my union. I recently noticed I had gotten a pay raise. Once again I am pleased with my union. If I had been in America still, I would have been unemployed, in debt and probably on the verge of being homeless. Once again, I am happy to pay my taxes. It is soooo worth it. Ihave a nice place to live and I wont loose it. I can eat every day with no worries. You couldnt pay me to move back to America.
Best wishes to you, I've got osteo arthritis, I shudder to think how painful rheumatoid would be.
So let me get this correct; You lived in the US for 38 years. You weren’t paying taxes in Denmark to support their health care system in all that time. However, now you have Rheumatoid Arthritis, you now expect the Danish tax payers to pick up your health care bill? Have you no shame? I appreciate you’ve not done anything ‘wrong’ but I still wouldn’t expect you to be bragging about how you’re stuffing your fellow countrymen.
@@SuperJinxter
It's a matter of luck (or, in this case, bad luck) .
You never know what will happen in the future, and it is no different than changing your home insurance a year before your house is visited by burglars.
Being retired myself, with RA, I can say that for the past ten years my visits to physicians have been limited to renewed prescriptions.
But before diagnose, I was seeing doctors way more than I liked.
@@SuperJinxter Wow. That is what you got from my comment? Really? Maybe Im proud of living in a country that actually treats its people well. For your info, I paid taxes for several years here before I ended up in America. I have also paid taxes since I came back. Still do. I didnt ask to get sick. I would much prefer to be healthy. I paid taxes for many years in America and quite frankly didnt get much in return. Health insurance is pretty steep in the states which you have to pay for too unless you get lucky to work for a company that offers it. But we both know they dont all do that. I know people who quite frankly ended up struggling with medical bills despite having health insurance. The system is the way it is here. Do you want me to ask for a bill from the hospital? I could try but I think they would look at me weird. So yes, I am proud to know that my birth country treats its people well.
I’m glad you’re happy living in a country that treats you well. A country that you turned your back on for 38 years, until it became too expensive to continue to do so. And I read you’re happy now paying taxes because of what you’re getting back. I’m not surprised. I wish you well in your health issues but bragging about what you get when you’ve contributed little, is a bit much.
We have the wonderful NHS in the UK and it’s quite a point of irritation that ‘ex-pats’ have moved abroad 20-30years ago, but are now back in the UK, purely for medical treatment. Do you really think that’s fair on everyone else who has paid taxes into the health care system, all their lives?
As I said, I wish you well but think it’s crappy that you’re bragging.
I taught in London from as early as 1970. I don't ever remember teaching a class that wasn't mixed ethnically. Come to think of it, my first class as a five year old in 1957 was mixed too. It was a bit of a shock when I moved to a rural area where I had an all white class for the first year, it was wierd felt unbalanced somehow.
Good luck. The way things are going in the US right now, it will take 60 more years before your generation comes into power, and I don't want to think of what's left at that time.
Your freedoms end where others start. I think it's a good starting point.
I particularly appreciate your exploring of these issues.
That you can do so without being defensive is a credit to you ... kudos!
Freedom - America has freedom TO. In Europe we have freedom FROM! It's a very distinct difference.
You mean freedom to bankruptcy vs freedom from bankruptcy?
@@vg7985 as in Americans have the freedom TO choose bankruptcy or death for not being able to pay your medical bills.
In Europe, we're free FROM that choice.
Dude… you are right next to Canada. We still have many issues that we need to address but, my impression is that socially, we are at a mid point between the US and many European countries. I’m 62 and I have never paid to see a doctor in my life. Dentist? Yes, we don’t have socialized dental care yet, although we have just brought it in for seniors.
In general the average European Union citizen has a much higher level of education than the average American.
I had major brain surgery as well as two subsequent surgeries due to complications. I paid a total of $500 for these three surgeries. The meds I took for a few weeks afterwards were very expensive ($1000). I paid $8 for them.
I am very grateful to live in Europe.
The healthcare is crazy. I remember a story of a student in USA, who died because they couldn't afford insuline and started reducing doses. Meanwhile my family gave insulin to our old dog every day because he had diabetes. It was like 10 euros a week.
That last point is very true, if I hear a president say loudly god save america, or the best country on earth, I feel a shiver in my back, because we europeans now how dangerous those words are, patriotisme is a familie of nationalism, and we now what can happen.
And that americans do not want to pay health ensuring for their fellow americans, is stupid, when someone is walking around their town realy sick, or begging on the walking side and can't go to a docter, it is dangerous for every body, not only for the sick person.
From the UK - the thing I cannot understand is your fear of "Socialism" and the connection you think it has to communism. One is a political indoctrination and the other for the greater good of society. Why do the US find this so difficult???
German. I have gained some good impression of some American politicians: Smart and level-headed people who - by all appearances - want to achieve something good for their country. Regardless of whether I agree with their opinions in detail or not, these are people worth arguing and discussing with.
The problem is the other kind. The ones who want to distract attention from their own perfidy, contempt for humanity, criminal behavior and mafia behaviour by shouting BS.
You mean Biden and Trump - obvious to see who is who!
Leave MTG alone !! 😂
@@Stefan_Van_pellicom No way, EmpTy G deserves every bit of trouble anybody can heap on her.
I’m Dutch, and I like all the people in the world! You’re doing a great job with your videos, working to make positive changes in your country. Change takes time, and it’s good to see that you’re open-minded 😄🙏🏽 Maybe see you in Holland sometime!, I really don’t mind when people say “Holland” instead of “the Netherlands”😂
7:12 I used to work for one of the largest social housing companies in the south of England. The reason those estates look good is because the social landlord goes round and checks on all of their estates frequently, requesting tenants to clean things up when needed. There’s a lot of intervention that goes on to support people in their homes.