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America could become like Europe if they wanted to
America has the highest GDP in the world and could become a lot like Europe if it invested on its own infrastructure and programs to reduce poverty and crime. Unfortunately the neocons who control the government would rather keep investing all taxpayer money in the military and send unlimited money to Israel and Ukraine. They also have the strongest army on the planet yet they still keep investing on the military instead of healthcare and useful social programs for the poor.
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unlimited money to Ukraine....

okay.
Good for you, for voicing an opinion of little research into the world.
Sounds like you are thinking of better life index BLI
If only it was that easy. People choose to be poor to benefit from programs and get handouts (which is still happening now but will just make it easier).

Free healthcare will raise taxes, overwork staffs, and underpay doctors. No one would wanna work in healthcare. The public sector of healthcare would be subpar (same reason why I rather hire a private lawyer than a public one). Unless you’re dying you will be at the bottom of the list and won’t see a doctor for 8 months.
Goldias 24 Jun @ 4:41am 
US is already greatest on the planet, why imitate inferior countries?
Walach 24 Jun @ 4:43am 
Originally posted by Goldias:
US is already greatest on the planet, why imitate inferior countries?
To learn humbleness? ;P
Europeans are letting themselves being taken over by muslims. By the time 2040 rolls around, almost every European nation will have Sharia law as its governing law.

Islam is right about women.
Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:
If only it was that easy. People choose to be poor to benefit from programs and get handouts (which is still happening now but will just make it easier).
I never said anything about handouts. I personally wold rather invest on a better system to ensure the poor be employed. Plus increase the minimum wage and forbid greedy corporations from raising prices.

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:
Free healthcare will raise taxes, overwork staffs, and underpay doctors. No one would wanna work in healthcare. The public sector of healthcare would be subpar (same reason why I rather hire a private lawyer than a public one). Unless you’re dying you will be at the bottom of the list and won’t see a doctor for 8 months.
Doctors are already one of the most well paid proffessions, I doubt they will ever become underpaid. And its still better getting a doctor appointment after 8 months than not getting it at all.
Originally posted by Thick Mick:
Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:
If only it was that easy. People choose to be poor to benefit from programs and get handouts (which is still happening now but will just make it easier).
I never said anything about handouts. I personally wold rather invest on a better system to ensure the poor be employed. Plus increase the minimum wage and forbid greedy corporations from raising prices.

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:
Free healthcare will raise taxes, overwork staffs, and underpay doctors. No one would wanna work in healthcare. The public sector of healthcare would be subpar (same reason why I rather hire a private lawyer than a public one). Unless you’re dying you will be at the bottom of the list and won’t see a doctor for 8 months.
Doctors are already one of the most well paid proffessions, I doubt they will ever become underpaid. And its still better getting a doctor appointment after 8 months than not getting it at all.
Increasing minimum wage will just make things more expensive. And jobs already pay double the minimum wage at 14 at the least for entry level jobs. (From my experience).

Doctors are well paid but if you look at the difference between the public and private sector you will see that the private sector is more lucrative than the public one. Private attorneys make more money on average than public attorneys. Public attorneys are also overworked because they have to deal with multiple cases and spend less time with the client (which often times get the client convicted). The difference is “life or death”. Doctors and staffs will be overwhelmed.
Last edited by Xero_Daxter; 24 Jun @ 5:12am
THE LORD 24 Jun @ 5:15am 
Be like europe, how? Beg other countries for military protection while handing out welfare to illegal immigrants?
Originally posted by THE LORD:
Be like europe, how? Beg other countries for military protection while handing out welfare to illegal immigrants?

When did Europe beg for assistance?

Was i when the USA begged the UK for assistance in Japan in exchange of assistance in Europe?

When the USA begged Britain for help in Korea?

When the USA begged the world for help in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Do you have any idea how high the consumption rate is in America for drugs? And how do you stop a culture that idolizes crime? You can’t just throw money at it
Originally posted by Chimaera:
Originally posted by Goldias:
US is already greatest on the planet, why imitate inferior countries?
If this is the greatest then I want to die

Maybe try your luck in China, or Iran
Talby 24 Jun @ 5:35am 
I think that's what the previous administration wanted as well.

Unfortunately they wanted to go the route of the third Reich and bow down and take the route of socialism into communism, and a large majority of the voters were in full disagreement and that plan changed on 11/2025
Before America ever does anything of this sort it needs to tackle its drug problem.
lmao, if the US did that the EU would ♥♥♥♥ itswlf. Who would be NATOs enforcer?
EU countries would actually have to defend themselves
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