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America - The Grim Truth
Karm tõde elust Ameerikas. Kes usub meedia leelotusi sellest, kuidas seal voolavad piimajõed ja kõrguvad pudrumäed on pehmelt öeldes propagandistlikud luulud kui reaalsusele põhinev teave. Osaliselt (kõiki neid detaile ei õnnestunud ise kogeda) kinnitan ka ise seda mis artikkel räägib ja seega soovitan võrrelda oma muljeid või teadmisi artiklis toodud teabega.
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You have the worst quality of life in the developed world by a wide margin.
Then why do so many people more to America each year ?
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada (we know how Canada is as we border it) and many parts of Asia (we know how Asia is too as most of the cheapest labor in the world is there) , you'd be rioting in the streets calling for a better life (People riot in other countries to have the freedoms we have here). In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.
(What a load of shit- I found this on the internet from 2008: "In Singapore, our low income workers earn about $750 a month. My friend told me that three jounalist from Taiwan visited Singapore to see how the poor live. He brought them to visit some rental flats. The flats were dark as the occupants did not want to spend money on electricity and do not watch television. The journalists said, "The poor in Singapore are poorer than the poor in Taiwan. In Taiwan, the poor can afford to watch television"- http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2008/07/m...pore.html. ) If this is true, why are so many middle easterners with college degrees from their country driving a taxi in the US ?
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.
On behalf of all Americans- we're glad you left.
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
The thought of you coming back from whatever hell hole you now call home fills us with dread as well.
Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system
(who wrote this ? This is left wing Obama bullshit). If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills
(while people do go bankrupt over medical bills, I'd like to see the statistic showing its "millions of Americans" This is an exagerated number), and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance
(Bullshit again- no hospital can deny treatment which is why our hospitals are full of illegals from mexico with no insurance. The hospital HAS to treat them). And don't believe for a second that rot about America having the world's best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I've been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the "good" hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.
This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.
(if your lifestyle is so healthy, why have you been in so many hospitals "I've been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand" ).
Let's start with your diet: Much of the beef you eat has been exposed to fecal matter in processing. Your chicken is contaminated with salmonella. Your stock animals and poultry are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. In most other countries, the government would act to protect consumers from this sort of thing; in the United States, the government is bought off by industry to prevent any effective regulations or inspections. In a few years, the majority of all the produce for sale in the United States will be from genetically modified crops, thanks to the cozy relationship between Monsanto Corporation and the United States government. Worse still, due to the vast quantities of high-fructose corn syrup Americans consume, fully one-third of children born in the United States today will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives
(Probably true).
Of course, it's not just the food that's killing you, it's the drugs. If you show any sign of life when you're young, they'll put you on Ritalin. Then, when you get old enough to take a good look around, you'll get depressed, so they'll give you Prozac. If you're a man, this will render you chemically impotent, so you'll need Viagra to get it up. Meanwhile, your steady diet of trans-fat-laden food is guaranteed to give you high cholesterol, so you'll get a prescription for Lipitor. Finally, at the end of the day, you'll lay awake at night worrying about losing your health plan, so you'll need Lunesta to go to sleep.
(I agree- the schools are too quick to give kids Ritalin).
With a diet guaranteed to make you sick and a health system designed to make sure you stay that way, what you really need is a long vacation somewhere. Unfortunately, you probably can't take one. I'll let you in on little secret: if you go to the beaches of Thailand, the mountains of Nepal (who the ... would want to go to Nepal ? I wouldn't go to Thailand or Nepal if the trip was FREE !), or the coral reefs of Australia, you'll probably be the only American in sight. And you'll be surrounded crowds of happy Germans, French (lazy socialst bastards), Italians (even lazier than the French), Israelis (would the Israelis be sitting next to the Germans ?), Scandinavians and wealthy Asians. Why? Because they're paid well enough to afford to visit these places AND they can take vacations long enough to do so. Even if you could scrape together enough money to go to one of these incredible places, by the time you recovered from your jetlag, it would time to get on a plane and rush back to your job.
(you're right and I have a solution. America shoud stop giving foreign aid to every ... country on the planet and stop buying shit products from Asia. Then employment here would rise, my taxes would go down and I would take a vacation- but no to a foreign country. I'd spend my $$ right here in the USA).
The fact is, they work you like dogs in the United States
(Somebody has to- hell they work like dogs in Asia too- that's why we're super powers. It's called capitalism you disillusioned socialist jackass). This should come as no surprise: the United States never got away from the plantation/sweat shop labor model and any real labor movement was brutally suppressed
(the "Real labor movement" is rooted in communism which we all know is a crock of shit and doesn't work. Look at France, Greece and the rest of lazy socialist Europe- they are huge "nanny states"). Unless you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical chairs for a spot in a cubicle
(a spot that will be outsourced to India next week anyway). The very best you can hope for is to get a professional degree and then milk the system for a slice of the middle-class pie. And even those who claw their way into the middle class are but one illness or job loss away from poverty. Your jobs aren't secure. Your company has no loyalty to you. They'll play you off against your coworkers for as long as it suits them, then they'll get rid of you.
(some truth here)
Of course, you don't have any choice in the matter: the system is designed this way. In most countries in the developed world, higher education is either free or heavily subsidized; in the United States, a university degree can set you back over US$100,000. Thus, you enter the working world with a crushing debt.
(True- that's because teachers & professors are overpaid, leftist hacks who spew socialism and equality then collect big salaries and demand raises) Forget about taking a year off to travel the world and find yourself
(what kind of ... has to "find themself" ? )you've got to start working or watch your credit rating plummet.
If you're "lucky," you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for a home loan. And then you'll spend half your working life just paying the interest on the loan welcome to the world of American debt slavery. America has the illusion of great wealth because there's a lot of "stuff" around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila, because at least they have no debts
(This is bullshit). If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to leave, you can't, because you've got debts to pay.
All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any American and you'll get the same answer: because America is the freest country on earth. If you believe this, I've got some more bad news for you: America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is tested
(for drugs relating to certain types of employment and rightfully so- they should also test it for people to collect welfare. There are no random "piss tests" I've lived here 39 years and no Government agent has ever come and asked me to piss in a cup for them).
And that's just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You don't even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you've never lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things
(once again, the author is a socialist. I don't want the government providing for me- I want capitalism. The harder I work, the more I can make. ) .
But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is the real government of the United States. You are required under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government
(I'd rather pay taxes to have a big military then to pay taxes to subsidize the lifestyle of lazy people).
If there was some chance that the country could be changed, there might be reason for hope. But can you honestly look around and conclude that anything is going to change? Where would the change come from? The people? Take a good look at your compatriots: the working class in the United States has been brutally propagandized by jackals like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.
(considering the author only pointed out "right wing conservative talk show hosts- I'll take it there are a left wing liberal who kiss the ass of Keith Olberman and Rachel Madow).
If the people cannot make a change, how about the media? Not a chance. From Fox News to the New York Times, the mass media in the United States is nothing but the public relations wing of the corporatocracy, primarily the military industrial complex. At least the citizens of the former Soviet Union knew that their news was bullshit. In America, you grow up thinking you've got a free media, which makes the propaganda doubly effective. If you don't think American media is mere corporate propaganda, ask yourself the following question: have you ever heard a major American news outlet suggest that the country could fund a single-payer health system by cutting military spending?
(what's with cutting the military to fund health care- how about cutting welfare and foreign aid to shit holes like Africa ? I want a big, powerful military so nobody tries to ... with us).
If change can't come from the people or the media, the only other potential source of change would be the politicians. Unfortunately, the American political process is among the most corrupt in the world. In every country on earth, one expects politicians to take bribes from the rich. But this generally happens in secret, behind the closed doors of their elite clubs. In the United States, this sort of political corruption is done in broad daylight, as part of legal, accepted, standard operating procedure. In the United States, they merely call these bribes campaign donations, political action committees and lobbyists. One can no more expect the politicians to change this system than one can expect a man to take an axe and chop his own legs out from underneath him.
(True)
No, the United States of America is not going to change for the better. The only change will be for the worse. And when I say worse, I mean much worse. As we speak, the economic system that sustained the country during the post-war years is collapsing. The United States maxed out its "credit card" sometime in 2008 and now its lenders, starting with China, are in the process of laying the foundations for a new monetary system to replace the Anglo-American "petro-dollar" system. As soon as there is a viable alternative to the US dollar, the greenback will sink like a stone.
(I tend to agree)
While the United States was running up crushing levels of debt, it was also busy shipping its manufacturing jobs and white-collar jobs overseas, and letting its infrastructure fall to pieces. (Sad but true) Meanwhile, Asian and European countries were investing in education, infrastructure and raw materials. Even if the United States tried to rebuild a real economy (as opposed to a service/financial economy) do think American workers would ever be able to compete with the workers of China or Europe? Have you ever seen a Japanese or German factory? Have you ever met a Singaporean or Chinese worker?
(It's a shame but the politicians have helped create a nanny state here with americans becoming lazy like France & Italy)
There are only two possible futures facing the United States, and neither one is pretty. The best case is a slow but orderly decline essentially a continuation of what's been happening for the last two decades. Wages will drop, unemployment will rise, Medicare and Social Security benefits will be slashed, the currency will decline in value, and the disparity of wealth will spiral out of control until the United States starts to resemble Mexico or the Philippines tiny islands of wealth surrounded by great poverty (the country is already halfway there).
(We're definitely not on a good path for the future)
Whether the collapse is gradual or gut-wrenchingly sudden, the results will be chaos, civil strife and fascism. Let's face it: the United States is like the former Yugoslavia a collection of mutually antagonistic cultures united in name only. You've got your own version of the Taliban: right-wing Christian fundamentalists who actively loathe the idea of secular Constitutional government. You've got a vast intellectual underclass that has spent the last few decades soaking up Fox News and talk radio propaganda, eager to blame the collapse on Democrats, gays and immigrants. You've got a ruthless ownership class that will use all the means at its disposal to protect its wealth from the starving masses.
(Capitalism is like Darwinism- only the strong survive. The lazy and stupid go hungry. I don't work to pay for someone with 6 kids who wants to sit around all day- I work to make MY bank account fat).
On top of all that you've got vast factory farms, sprawling suburbs and a truck-based shipping system, all of it entirely dependent on oil that is about to become completely unaffordable. And you've got guns. Lots of guns. In short: the United States is about to become a very unwholesome place to be.
(about ? In some places it is and has been for a long time. The author sounds like a wimp).
Right now, the government is building fences and walls along its northern and southern borders
(We need a wall like China to keep the illegal Mexicans out of our country as they're bankrupting us with their "anchor babies" and drugs. Right now, the government is working on a national ID system (soon to be fitted with biometric features).
If you're young, you've got plenty of choices: you can teach English in the Middle East
(I'd never go there)
You will not be alone. There are millions of Americans just like me living outside the United States. Living lives much more fulfilling, peaceful, free and abundant
(The author sounds like a new age clown who is probably employed in either the arts or academia)
There a few truths here but for the most part, it's bullshit with a socialist agenda which I do not believe in. I'm glad my ancestors came to America from Italy and I would not trade my life with any ghetto dweller in Manilla or cab driver in Singapore. The author is full of shit.
Abi
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